Bell Labs, 1973

Bell Labs photo – historic marker for site of Jansky’s discovery of radio waves, held by two unidentified men. David Jansky thinks they are probably Bell Labs employees. Horn antenna used by Penzias and Wilson in the background.

Papers of Karl G. Jansky

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1973-10

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Photos scanned from David Jansky’s originals, December 2019 (originals returned). The photos were loaned to the NRAO Archives for scanning by David Jansky, Karl Jansky’s son. Captions and identifications were either provided by David Jansky in December 2019, were taken from back of photos, or by comparing with images in Serendipitous Discoveries in Radio Astronomy.

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