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Radio researchers work in a field laboratory. Left to right are Howard Allen Chinn, Ethan Allen Murphy, Lloyd Tanner Goldsmith and Henry Garrett Houghton. Original Credit Line: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Original Caption: "Main operating desk at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radio Research Station W-IXV at Round Hill Mass. The operator's position controls six receiving sets for waves ranging from ten to 7,000 meters, and four transmitters operating on ten, twenty, forty and eighty meters. Left to right:- Howard A. Chinn, in charge of the station; E. A. Murphy, research operator; L. T. Goldsmith (rear) and H. C. Houghton."