A History of Central Florida, Episode 48: Electronic Communication
Podcasts
Documentaries
Communication--United States
Post offices
Postal service--Florida
Telegraph--Florida
Telephone--United States
Computers--United States
Email
Episode 48 of A History of Central Florida podcasts: Electronic Communication. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners.<br /><br />Episode 48 features a discussion of several artifacts of communication technology: a post office box from the Winter Garden Heritage Museum, a telegraph from the New Smyrna Museum of History, a telephone from the Telephone Museum, a computer from the Museum of Seminole County History. This podcast also includes interviews with Nancy Pope of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and Richard R. John of Columbia University.
Velásquez, Daniel
Original 16-minute and 11-second podcast by Daniel Velásquez, 2015: RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida. <a href="https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM</a>.
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Pope, Nancy
John, Richard R.
Cassanello, Robert
Clarke, Bob
Ford, Chip
Gibson, Ella
Hazen, Kendra
Kelly, Katie
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>
application/website
eng
Moving Image
Killarney, Florida
Winter Garden Heritage Museum, Winter Garden, Florida
New Smyrna Museum of History, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Telephone Museum, Maitland Historical Museum, Maitland, Florida
Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida
Telegram from Lew Emmerich to Dr. Cal Fowler (May 15, 1963)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
NASA
Project Mercury (U.S.)
Atlas (Missile)
Dr. Cal Fowler (1929-2013) received this congratulatory telegram from Lew Emmerich, a General Dynamics Program Director based out of San Diego, California. Emmerich was involved in America's space program from Project Mercury to Project Apollo, and was described in his obituary as a "Pioneer of America's Space Program."
Emmerich, Lew
Original telegram from Lew Emmerich to Dr. Calvin "Cal" Fowler, May 15, 1963): Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.
Fowler, Calvin "Cal" D.
<a href="http://srealserver.eecs.ucf.edu/chronopoints/" target="_blank">Chronopoints</a>
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Still Image
General Dynamics/Aeronautics, San Diego, California
Home of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler, Cocoa, Florida