File:15JUN1920 Melba radio broadcast.jpg
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English: Photograph of opera soprano Nellie Melba making a broadcast over the Marconi Chelmsford Works radio station in England on 15 June 1920. This was one of the earliest radio broadcasts. It was heard all over Europe and was influential in building support for radio broadcasting. Original caption: "The voice of Melba being directed into a microphone, hooked up with a 15 kw. set transmitted on a wave length of 2,800 meters." |
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| Source | Illustration from page 10 of the November 1920 issue of The Wireless Age, which was included in the article "A Newspaper's Use of the Radio Phone". |
| Author | magazine illustration |
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| current | 21:29, 22 July 2017 | | 503 × 648 (118 KB) | Thomas H. White | User created page with UploadWizard |
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