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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Not quite



This makes me feel old. Youtube describes this as the "world's first mobile phone" when it's nothing of the kind.  It's just a portable wireless receiver for listening to bog-standard medium wave broadcasts.  God, it makes me tired having to explain this.

Nice umbrella antenna, though.
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1 comment:

  1. eonTuesday, 20 September 2011 at 06:05:00 GMT-7

    It reminds me of nothing so much as the parasols with built-in lightning rods that were all the rage in Paris in the 1770s as a result of Franklin's experiments. Except without the trailing earth wire.

    Walking around in a storm with one of these up could have gotten the user more than a weather report.

    cheers

    eon

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