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Finding a way to modulate radio waves with sound not only simplified the communications process, but it also gave birth to the very first media empires of the world, thanks to a novel form of unidirectional wireless communications: broadcasting.
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Launiainen, P. (2018). The Golden Age of Wireless. In: A Brief History of Everything Wireless. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78910-1_4
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