Dispatches from 1918
Radiolab
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What a Cool Moment in History
On October 17th, 1919, Frank is in his garage with these fancy vacuum tubes. And then he picks up a microphone, pushed up to a phonograph and music floated out of Frank's little garage into the air. There's no recording of this broadcast. All we know is that Frank talked a little, played some music, and about 35 miles away, all the way across Pittsburgh. Those sounds reached the ears of a little boy named Harry Mills. Susan says this was a real moment where spiritualism took off.
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