![]() ![]() ![]() 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: This is the second book in the juvenile "Radio Boys" series, published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1922. ![]()
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