Camp Evans, New Jersey is a former military base associated with Fort Monmouth. It is located in Wall Township, although it is often said to be located in Belmar. The property overlooks the Shark River. Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... Ft. ... Map of Wall Township in Monmouth County Wall Township is a Township located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Belmar is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... The Shark River is a river in eastern New Jersey that rises in eastern Monmouth County and flows southeast for approximately 7 mi (11. ...

Camp Evans is named after the late Lt. Col. Paul Wesley Evans of the Signal Corp., who worked in the development of wireless transmission and military radar at the Belmar Station in the early 20th century. After World War I, Evans was reassigned to the Panama Canal Zone as the presiding Signal Officer. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: ), was a 553 square mile (1,432 km²) territory inside of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles (8. ...

Marconi's Belmar Station

The original Evans buildings were built by the American Marconi Company between 1912 and 1914 as part of Guglielmo Marconi's 'wireless girdle' around the Earth. It was then known as the Belmar Station (40.1859° N 74.0594° W). The Belmar Station served as Marconi's receiving station, "duplexed" with his high power transmitting station in New Brunswick, New Jersey (40.5153° N 74.4889° W). An operator in Belmar keyed the New Brunswick transmitter, 32 miles to the southeast, through a landline connection. Edwin Armstrong and David Sarnoff tested and perfected the regenerative circuit at the Belmar site, on the night of January 31/February 1, 1914. The Marconi Company Ltd. ... Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese, GCVO (25 April 1874-20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. ... Marconi may be: People Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) Corporations: Alenia Marconi Systems GEC Marconi Marconi plc (formerly GEC) Marconi Electronic Systems Matra Marconi Space This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nickname: Location of New Brunswick in Middlesex County Coordinates: Country United States of America State New Jersey County Middlesex Established December 30, 1730 Incorporated September 1, 1784 Government  - Type Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council)  - Mayor James Cahill Area  - City  5. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891–December 12, 1971) led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities shortly after its founding in 1919 to his retirement in 1970. ...

The US Navy

Both stations were seized by the U.S. Navy when the United States entered World War I in April 1917. Dr. A. Hoyt Taylor, the father of Naval radar, was in charge of the Belmar and New Brunswick stations during the early years of the war. On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted through these stations to the powerful longwave station in Nauen, Germany. In October Wilson's appeal for the abdication or overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm II was sent through the stations. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Dr. Albert H. Taylor (born January 1, 1879 in Chicago, Illinois; died December 11, 1961) was an American electrical engineer who made important early contributions to the development of radar. ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924), was the 28th President of the United States. ... United States President Woodrow Wilson listed the Fourteen Points in a speech that he delivered to the United States Congress on January 8, 1918. ... Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918. ...

RCA

At the end of the war, the property was returned to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, which was acquired by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in October 1919. RCA abandoned the Belmar site in 1924, when they consolidated all of their transatlantic receivers at their new Radio Central station in Riverhead, New York. The New Brunswick transmitter site served as an important communications link to the United Kingdom during World War II. RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by RCA Trademark Management S.A. [1], owned by Thomson SA. The trademark is used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions...

Pleasure Seeker's Club

From 1925 to 1935, the property was owned by the Monmouth County Pleasure Seeker's Club. The Pleasure Seeker's Club had close ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Disputes over development of the property ended in a court battle that was reported in The New York Times. Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

The King's College

The Young People's Association for the Propagation of the Gospel purchased the Belmar station in 1936. The King's College opened in September, 1938 under the leadership of Percy B. Crawford. It aimed to combine the Arts and Sciences with a Christian education. They began with 67 students. When they were denied accreditation, they relocated. Presently, The King's College is located in the Empire State Building in New York City. The Kings College is a small Christian institution of higher education, founded by Percy Crawford in 1938. ... Accreditation is a process by which a facilitys services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. ... For other uses, see Kings College. ... The Empire State Building in New York The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York, NY. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. ...

World War II

The U.S. Army purchased the land in November of 1941 to create a top-secret research facility. Radar was partly developed and vastly improved at Camp Evans. Other partners in radar development included Fort Hancock, the MIT RAD LAB, AT&T, Western Electric, General Electric, and Chrysler. A unit designed by Camp Evans engineers detected enemy planes 50 minutes before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Camp Evans radar was a major factor in the U.S. victory during World War II. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ... Fort Hancock is the name of several places: Fort Hancock, Texas, a census-designated place in Hudspeth County, Texas Fort Hancock, New Jersey, a fort on the Sandy Hook beach of New Jersey This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... AT&T Inc. ... Company Masthead Logo Logo until circa 1969, also current logo on company web site Logo 1969-1983 Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995. ... GE redirects here. ... For other uses, including the Chrysler Brand, see Chrysler (disambiguation). ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Army Research

During and After WWII, Camp Evans was an important Black history site. Black engineers made major contributions to electronic research, development, product distribution and training. Prof. Robert Johnson, of Framingham State College is creating a video to document the work and struggles of black engineers. See Dr. Walter McAfee African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as American blacks or black Americans, whose dominant ancestry is from Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Framingham State College is a public college offering liberal arts and science programs. ... Dr. Walter S. McAfee (September 2, 1914 – February 18, 1995) was born in Ore City, Texas, a small town in Upshur County. ...

After World War II, the Army kept Camp Evans as a research facility. The base was part of Project Paperclip, where German radar scientists were relocated and employed by the U.S. Army, including Wernher von Braun. Project Diana opened the space age, proving that radio waves could pierce the ionosphere. This proved that communication is possible between the Earth and space, opening the possibility of space exploration. Other contributions included work on light-emitting diodes, night vision goggles, and many other important developments. Operation Paperclip scientists pose together. ... Wernher von Braun stands at his desk in the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama in May 1964, with models of rockets developed and in progress. ... Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess, was a project of the US Army signal corps to bounce radio signals off the moon and receive the reflected signals. ... The Space Shuttle takes off on a manned mission to space. ... Relationship of the atmosphere and ionosphere The ionosphere is the part of the atmosphere that is ionized by solar radiation. ... Blue, green and red LEDs. ... Experimental night vision goggles. ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and others came to Camp Evans on October 20, 1953. McCarthy claimed that the Army's "house of magic" was really a "house of spies." Julius Rosenberg was executed for supposedly stealing radar and proximity fuze information from Fort Monmouth while working there as an electrical engineer in the 1940s. (Documents released by Russia after the Cold War showed that Mr. Rosenberg was indeed, a Soviet Spy.) McCarthy's visit destroyed careers and led to the creation of the "leper colony" - where those who could no longer be trusted with top secret information worked. None of the Camp Evans employees whom McCarthy investigated in 1953 and 1954 were ever prosecuted. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ... Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into Communism in the government and especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. ... The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ... This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ... A proximity fuze (also called a VT fuze, for variable time) is a fuze that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when the distance to target becomes smaller than a predetermined value or when the target passes through a given plane. ... Ft. ... An engineers degree is an academic degree which is intermediate in rank between a masters degree and a doctorate; it is occasionally to be encountered in the United States in technical fields. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

The U.S. Army Signal Corps scientists at Camp Evans and Deal Test Site in Ocean Township tracked Sputnik. The Institute for Exploratory Research was created and based out of Camp Evans. The army base played an important role in satellite development and space exploration. Dr. Hans Ziegler was responsible for the first application of solar cells as a power source for satellites. The U.S. Army Signal Corps was founded in 1861 by United States Army Major Albert J. Myer, a physician by training. ... The Deal Test Site (now Joe Palaia Park) in Ocean Township, New Jersey, was originally started as the Foxburst Farm, a 63-acre tract which is now the southern portion of the park. ... Map of Ocean Township in Monmouth County Ocean Township is a Township located in east central Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Sputnik 1 The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. ... Dr. Hans K. Ziegler was responsible for the first application of photovoltaic solar cells as a power source for satellites. ... A solar cell, made from a monocrystalline silicon wafer A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light energy into electrical energy. ...

Camp Evans played an important role in the development of the silicon transistor. It featured a nuclear dosimetry laboratory and a photo-optics lab. It tracked Pioneer V. Camp Evans worked with projects Joint STARS, REMBASS, Firefinder, Pulsed Power (part of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative), and others. It has been suggested that Silicons ranking be merged into this article or section. ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier. ... Dosimetry is the measurement of absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to ionizing radiations. ... Pioneer 5 Pioneer 5 (1960 Alpha 1) was a spin-stabilized space probe in the Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus. ... United States Air Force E-8C Joint STARS The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) is a United States Air Force airborne battle management and command and control (C2) platform that conducts ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981 – 1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967 – 1975). ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly called Star Wars after one of the popular science fantasy movies of the time, was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic...

Infoage

The former Camp Evans base is now being turned into the Infoage Science/History Learning Center. Quoting from their website: "Infoage is a group of cooperating non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and education of information age technologies, as we honor the pioneers of communications." Infoage volunteers have succeeded in having Camp Evans listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in the creation of a Camp Evans historic district, and is a Save America's Treasures official project. Volunteers are also working to restore the buildings after years of Army neglect. The land and buildings have been given to the National Park Service for Infoage's use through the United States Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure process. The Infoage Science/History Learning Center is a science center that will be opening on the grounds of the former Camp Evans military base in Wall Township, New Jersey, approximately 30 miles from New York City. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... A historic district in the United States is a group of buildings, properties or sites that have been designated by one of several entites on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. ... The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ... The United States Department of Defense (DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. ... Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the US Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense and Congress to close excess military installations and realign the total asset inventory in order to save...

Recent developments

Currently, parts of what was the Camp Evans base have been given to the Infoage Science/History Learning Center, Brookdale Community College and the North Wall Little League Foundation through the BRAC. Presently, this land is the site of the Brookdale Communiversity, Infoage, and a baseball complex run by the North Wall Little League. The Infoage Science/History Learning Center is a science center that will be opening on the grounds of the former Camp Evans military base in Wall Township, New Jersey, approximately 30 miles from New York City. ... Brookdale Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year public college in Lincroft, Monmouth County, New Jersey. ...

Works cited

This information is based on articles on www.infoage.org.

External links

• Infoage Science/History Center Infoage is located at the former Camp Evans site. Their website has an extensive collection of information about Camp Evans.
• The King's College