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- From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
- Subject: Re: Stupid questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.044124.1905@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <8RL7VB1w165w@tsoft.net> <85828@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Dec27.003713.10172@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:41:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.003713.10172@netcom.com> crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp) writes:
- >In article <85828@ut-emx.uucp> mouli@ut-emx.uucp (Chandramouli. V) writes:
- >>
- >>I found this in our ONLINE encyclopedia. Apparently the origin of
- >>'HAM' is still unclear.
- >>
- >>
- >> HAM RADIO
- >> in
- >> Academic American Encyclopedia (database on UTCAT PLUS system).
- >> Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publishing, October, 1992 update.
- >
- >>
- >>The leading organization of amateurs in the United States and
- >>Canada, the American Radio Relay League based in Newington,
- >>Conn., was founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >He also was the son of the man that invented the firearm silencer.
-
- Slight correction: HP Maxim of the ARRL was the man that invented the
- firearm silencer. It was his father that invented the Maxim Machine Gun.
- I guess he was tired of the noise from his father's invention, and decided
- to quiet down the barnyard a tad:-)
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