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Radio-Telegraphy 1

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THE practical application of electric waves to the purposes of wireless telegraphic transmission over long distances has continued to extend to a remarkable degree during the last few years, and many of the difficulties which at the outset appeared almost insurmountable have been gradually overcome—chiefly through the improved knowledge which we have obtained in regard to the subject generally and to the principles involved.

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Radio-Telegraphy 1 . Nature 86, 600–605 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086600a0

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