Representative Peter H. Dominick receives a briefing on the latest advances in telecommunications satellite technologies in the hearing room of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in 1962, 1962

Item

Identifier: M085.09.0186.0025.00001

Staff Only

Abstract

Congressman Dominick (R-Colo.) listens as an unidentified telecommunications company executive reviews details of a global satellite communications system following hearings before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Congress passed the Communications Satellite Act in 1962, which created the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). COMSAT used artificial satellites to establish a commercial system of global communication.

Dates

1962

Digital Repository

Representative Peter H. Dominick receives a briefing on the latest advances in telecommunications satellite technologies in the hearing room of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in 1962

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Materials are primarily in English. Some travel memorabilia may be in other languages.

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Extent

1 Items (photograph)

Additional Description

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Series 9 of 11 consists of Official Photos of Senator Dominick as well as family photos, phots with constituents and colleagues, official trips to Vietnam and elsewhere.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

8 x 10 inches black and white

Related Materials

Digital reproduction. Denver, Colo. : University of Denver, Penrose Library, 2006. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Mode of access: World Wide Web. Scanned 2005-11-10 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 3.40 GHz, 3.39 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Silverfast Ai 5 scanning software, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 editing software; 600 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 150 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: domi085tif0007.tif, domi085jpg0007.jpg.