Your reminder that Paul Revere never actually made it to Concord with his warning; he just had a great publicist in Longfellow. His partner Samuel Prescott did deliver the warning, reportedly because he knew the backroads, having a mistress out that way.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Your reminder that Paul Revere never actually made it to Concord with his warning; he just had a great publicist in Longfellow. His partner Samuel Prescott did deliver the warning, reportedly because he knew the backroads, having a mistress out that way.
#PaulRevere #PaulRevere250
#PaulRevere #PaulRevere250
250 years ago today, #PaulRevere made his famous #MidnightRide from Charlestown to Lexington. Of course, as #RCA noted in this 1939 advertisement, he could have stayed in bed if #radio had been available in 1775.
(Life, Sep. 25, 1939: books.google.com/books?id=zUE...)
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(Life, Sep. 25, 1939: books.google.com/books?id=zUE...)
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![Radio Corporation of America advertisement originally published in Life (Sep. 25, 1939). [Full text of the main body of the advertisement follows]
Paul Revere could have stayed in bed
Radio could have reached "every Middlesex village and farm" before the famous silversmith got started
Had RADIO broadcasting been available in 1775, Paul Revere could have spread the alarm in a split second and been spared his all-night ride. As we look back, it is difficult to realize how the patriots of the Revolution were able to carry their task to successful completion in the face of the time required to exchange communications among the thirteen colonies. What an amazing difference radio makes in your life today!
Today, matters of importance, whether to nations or to individuals, are flashed around the world instantly. R.C.A. Communications provides communication to and from 43 countries and among leading cities of the United States.
RCA services and RCA equipment put radio at your service in many other ways. Broadcast programs provide an unceasing flow of entertainment, offer information, news and enlightenment to millions. Airplanes fly more safely, are guided more surely to their destinations by radio. Radio plays a vital role in the plans of the Army and Navy for national defense.
RCA activities are portrayed in RCA exhibits at the New York World's Fair and the San Francisco Exposition. You are cordially invited to visit these exhibits.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gctqfxnif4zrn7rw76gnzzcu/bafkreiaby3krrxakf2t6kb2ub5bflufhbcdyriwguxoi4ypi3bap5iewiu@jpeg)
April 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
250 years ago today, #PaulRevere made his famous #MidnightRide from Charlestown to Lexington. Of course, as #RCA noted in this 1939 advertisement, he could have stayed in bed if #radio had been available in 1775.
(Life, Sep. 25, 1939: books.google.com/books?id=zUE...)
#PaulRevere250 #OnThisDay 🗃️📜📻
(Life, Sep. 25, 1939: books.google.com/books?id=zUE...)
#PaulRevere250 #OnThisDay 🗃️📜📻