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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 663

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ll. The quietof the room was broken by the whir of a dynamo The messages may thus be picked out of the skyand telegraphed or telephoned in an intervalmeasured by seconds only. It is as easy to recognize an operator fromhis touch as you pick out a familiar voice in acrowd, the operator explained in… … INTERIOR OF A MODERN WIRELESS STATION. suddenly released, while the room was lit upwith a vivid greenish glare. From above camethe sharp crack of the sending instrument noti-fying the steamer far out at sea that her mes-sage had been received. Every preparation had been made in the greatstation for…

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