A monument celebrating the first detection of radio waves from space was
dedicated this week. Tony Tyson, an astrophysicist at Bell Laboratories in
Murray Hill, New Jersey, searched for a decade for the site in nearby Holmdel
where Karl Jansky made his discovery in 1931. His quest was in vain until
Jansky’s notebooks were found, some in the archives of AT&T, the company
that then owned Bell Labs, others in the office of a manager who had died. With
the notebooks and old aerial photos, Tyson spotted the position of Jansky’s
30-metre antenna. A 4-metre replica has been erected at the site.
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