Excerpt from The Book of Wireless Telegraph and Telephone: Being a Clear Description of Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Sets and How to Make and Operate Them, Together With a Simple Explanation of How Wireless Works Fancy a boy sitting in his room at home with his fingers on a telegraph key and a telephone receiver to his ear listening-ia to the news of the world as it is flashed out from the great coast stations or by ships far out at sea It's a great experience. Yet thousands of boys are doing this wonderful thing every day and night of the year, and you, my young friend, can do it as easily as they, for any boy can own a real wireless station, if he really wants to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.