Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator

Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator (1919)
by A. Frederick Collins, illustrated by R. Emmett Owen
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Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator

"Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves'"—page 50
"'Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves'"page 50


Jack Heaton

Wireless Operator


BY


A. Frederick Collins

Author of “Inventing for Boys,” “Handicraft for Boys,” “The Boys’ Book of Submarines,” etc.


WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY
R. Emmett Owen


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NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

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Copyright, 1919, by

Frederick A. Stokes Company


Copyright, 1919, by

The Sprague Publishing Company


All rights reserved

TO

Donald Delmar Zeitler

Contents

Chapter Page
I How I Learned Wireless 1
II My First Job as an Operator 18
III When the “Andalusian” Went Down 36
IV Catching Seals by Wireless 52
V My Adventures in the Tropics 68
VI Working with Marconi 98
VII A Government Operator at Arlington 129
VIII Aboard a Warship at Vera Cruz 153
IX On a Submarine Chaser 170
X A Signalman on a Submarine 191
XI With the Field Artillery in France 209
XII Mustered Out 229

Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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