radio history at Tufts and claims of being the first broadcast station

[George Allen]

An interesting history of radio at Tufts is in the current alum 
mag.  They say: "Not only did Tufts' radio station make the first 
continuous radio transmission in history. It may well have been the 
first broadcast station in the country."
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2010/planet-tufts/good-morning.html

And then there's the "legend" of the train-track antenna back in the 
late 60's with their 10 watt AM station.  Sounds a bit fishy to me... 
altho the license did get pulled by the FCC for some now undocumented reason.

And let's not forget Tuft's Amos Dolbear, a professor at Tufts in 1874:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Dolbear
who's patent prevented the Marconi Company from operating in the 
United States.  ["Dolbear [...] appears to have successfully sent and 
received signals using Hertzian waves over a distance of 13 miles - 
more than a decade before Marconi did".)]
    george  Tufts '74 EE