Two men battle at a Pittsburgh steel mill to control rights to a new, large-caliber, naval-gun contract and the affections of the steel magnate’s daughter. The core of the plot is the new Marconi radio transmitters that made possible ship rescues at sea.
}, year = {1908}, note = {Frederic Thompson—the “Walt Disney” of American amusements—first created the idea for a wireless technological show called “Via Wireless” at his Luna Park on Coney Island. Its 1908 summer success inspired Thompson to hire two playwrights to expand it into a four-act play for Broadway, where it ran from November 1908 to January 1909, and then traveled the country.
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