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COLD WAR 27/39
Title
Transcript of interview with radio engineer Roy Welch, 1996
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- 1996 Mar 15 (Creation)
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17pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Roy Welch, Engineer, South Western Bell Telephone Company, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1957, relating to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; Welch's use of amateur radio equipment to hear the beeps made by Sputnik I from space, Oct 1957; Welch's audio tape recording of the beeps from Sputnik I, 6 Oct 1957; Welch's feeling that the USA ought to have beaten the USSR into putting a satellite into Earth orbit, 1957. 17pp
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