Phone on Moving Trolley

Phone on Moving Trolley
Phone on Moving Trolley

Perhaps the first version of a carphone? In 1921, General Electric successfully used carrier current communication, which transmits a low power AM signal through alternating current lines, to communicate from a moving trolley car “with a point more than three miles distant. Considering radio itself was still in its infancy, that seems a pretty impressive feat.

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