This is a picture of George B. Ferree’s WWI crystal radio from the old Fort Monmouth website. The radio had been in storage for many years by the time I first heard about it. This led to trips to Fort Monmouth to see it firsthand, to Arkansas to meet George Ferree’s son, Eddie, who provided a copy of his father’s war journal, and to several libraries and archives, meeting some wonderful people and seeing some amazing things along the way.

Here are some extra pictures of George B. Ferree’s radio that won’t be in the book. He built this crystal set from a German battery box during WWI (see the book for more details). I took these at the US Army Communications Electronics Museum at Fort Monmouth in 2006. The radio, along with much of the museum’s exhibits, are, for now, in storage at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.