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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.