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Edward M. 'Eddie' Glaser Brooklyn, NY Bellmore LI, NY QCWA # 132 |
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Edward Maurice Glaser was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on September 19 1905, to Jacob S. and Theresa P. Glaser. When still a teenager, he had one of the leading amateur radio stations in the region. He attended City College of New York, where he studied electrical engineering. He later took graduate courses at New York University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
"Eddie," as he was sometimes known, went to work as a research engineer at Kollsman Instrument Company in the 1930s, where he remained for much of his professional career, rising to chief electrical engineer.
By 1940, he and wife Rose moved out to Bellmore on Long Island. He passed away on May 24, 1995, and is buried in Wellwood Cemetery, Farmingdale, N.Y.
(Source: Ancestry.com and professional listings)
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19-YEAR-OLD BEATS SPACE
Brooklyn Youth Transmits To India
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 7, 1925
A 19-year-old amateur, sitting at the key of his radio transmitter, talks almost daily to operators in Australia. Africa, Europe, Alaska -- even in India as a matter of course!
The boy is Edward M. Glaser, a student at City college in New York, president of the college radio club, director of the second district executive council and division manager for the Hudson division of the second radio district. His station is 2BRB, operating on a wavelength of 75 meters.
From midnight to morning is his time, when amateurs are given freedom of the air and when static and other forms of interference are at their lowest. Then he taps his transmitting key and soon receives an answer.
Stations in the United States and Canada are local to him, though may be along the Pacific coast. His "DX" reaches far out beyond the Atlantic and Pacific and around the globe. Yet the apparatus through which he hears far-off India and Africa and New Zealand is a simple three circuit, three-tube regenerative receiver!
Its efficiency, says young Glaser, lies in the extreme care he took in constructing it, in the use of the best apparatus, in the exact placement of parts and in careful workmanship. And the antenna, through which Glaser has made his record both in transmission and reception, consists of a single wire 25 feet long with a 50-foot lead-in!
Glaser usually transmits on an input of about 200 watts, although his 250-watt tube can raise this considerately. His motor generates 1200 volts current under normal conditions. The remarkable part of Glaser´s station, however, is his receiver. For two-way communication necessitates just as great efficiency in hearing, as well as in sending.
Glaser has carried on two-way communication with 3BQ, 2DS and 2YI in Australia, 2AC, 4AA and 4AG in New Zealand, with scores of stations in England and Europe, with the Italian cruiser San Marcos along the coast of Brazil, with WNP, the official station of Donald McMillan, the explorer, when he was in the arctic, and with other such distant stations.
His transmitting set has reached out to India, almost halfway around the earth, and to other distant places. In all, says Glaser, he has communicated with amateurs in five continents and at points in the Atlantic and Pacific.
(Source: The Port Arthur News, March 8, 1925)
Radio News, June 1925
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