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messages were transmitted. Outside,



                                                                                                                                         there was a receiver which a visitor




                                                                                                                                         could pick up and hold to their ear.



                                                                                                                                         The receiver, though not connected



                                                                                                                                         to anything, allowed the visitor to




                                                                                                                                         hear whatever messages were being



                                                                                                                                         transmitted from inside, making



                                                                                                                                         that exhibit the first wireless




                                                                                                                                         communications device. Its same



                                                                                                                                         technology was used in creating the


            One example of  a communications                                                                                             radio and eventually mobile phones



            device was the radiophone. Inside                                                                                            which we use today. Among the




            the Palace of  Electricity, there was                                                                                        other practical inventions was the



            an apparatus from which sound                                                                                                Finsen Light and X-ray Machine.
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