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GEORGE O. SQUIER

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GEORGE O. SQUIER
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>GEORGE O. SQUIER </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1865-1934). American military and electrical engineer; Army major general, the first passenger with <b>Orville Wright</b> in test flight of army airplane (1907). Among his several inventions is the line radio system permitting simultaneously as many as five telephone conversations and 40 telegraph messages over a single wire. DS, a bank check drawn on The Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC, Jan 5, 1899. Revenue stamp at left margin. Payable to the “<i>Army & Navy Club</i>” in the amount of $60. Boldly signed and completed in his holograph. Slit cancellation away from signature and text; negligible brushing of ink; o/w VG.</span></p>