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Voices in the Wire

99% Invisible

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Harry Mills' Radio Station

Harry Mills first discovered radio in 1919. He was 12 years old and his parents bought him a copy of the Boy Scout Handbook. Almost every night he would line his bed and listen to the amateur radio operator's signal back and forth. Then one night he heard something different.

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