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Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Gift

HISTORY This Week

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The Gift of 20 Thousand Herts

The horse eats no cucumber salad were the first words transmitted through electronic reproduction. In 19 o six, morse code was the only reliable way to communicate over long distances without wires. But that christmas eve, a mysterious morse code transmission was received by ships off the coast of new england. The technology didn't advance much over the next half century. And like johan reice, one of the icons in the field of audio reproduction that not many people know about is doctor amar bas.

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