The Radio Boys have gone to the seashore for their summer vacation. Binns continued to work as a radio operator until 1912, when he turned down an assignment on the ill-fated Titanic, after which he took up a career in journalism and writing forewords to the Radio Boys series for Edward Stratemeyer. "Who the heck is Jack Binns?" Glad you asked! Over a century ago, New York held a parade to honour Jack Binns, the 24-year-old British wireless operator of the White Star liner Republic, whose quick thinking and persistence helped save scores of lives when the liner was rammed by a cargo ship in the freezing water off the coast of Nantucket on the early morning of January 23, 1909. Each volume has a forward by Jack Binns, the well known radio expert." Each volume is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date, and accurate that all modern boys will peruse them with delight. Each story is a record of thrilling adventures-rescues, narrow escapes from death, daring exploits in which radio play a main part. "Here is a series that gives full details of radio work both in sending and receiving-how large and small sets can be made and operated, and with this real information there are stories about the Radio Boys and their adventures. The publisher's advertisement described the series as follows: #1 HarryT 02-17-2019, 10:47 AMThis is the second book in the juvenile "Radio Boys" series, published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1922.
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