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First radio vacuum tube. Carl W. Mitman, Curator of Engineering, US Nat'l Museum, holding what is believed to be the 1st radio tube. It was made in 1898 by D. Mefarlan Moore of NY. Radio waves emanating from this tube ignited a bomb a city block away and blew up a miniature of the Battleship Maine

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First radio vacuum tube. Carl W. Mitman, Curator of Engineering, US Nat'l Museum, holding what is believed to be the 1st radio tube. It was made in 1898 by D. Mefarlan Moore of NY. Radio waves emanating from this tube ignited a bomb a city block away and blew up a miniature of the Battleship Maine

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First radio vacuum tube. Carl W. Mitman, Curator of Engineering, US Nat'l Museum, holding what is believed to be the 1st radio tube. It was made in 1898 by D. Mefarlan Moore of NY. Radio waves emanating from this tube ignited a bomb a city block away and blew up a miniature of the Battleship Maine

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Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1924

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Harris & Ewing, photographer

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38.88868, -77.00472

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