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| | The first voice radio-telephone call (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Radio was no longer limited to telegraph codes, no longer just a wireless telegraph. |
 | | As Morgan put it, "Radio receivers with sensitive, inexpensive crystal detectors, such as this double slide tuner crystal set, appeared as early as 1904, and were used by most amateurs until the early Thirties, when vacuum tubes replaced crystals. |
 | | Now, telephone companies themselves had portable telephones before this, especially to test their lines, and armed forces would often tap into existing lines while their divisions were on the move, but I still think this is the first regularly occurring, authorized, civilian use of a mobile telephone. |
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