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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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