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January 15, 2006

Signaling across the Tay

About this time, J. B. Lindsay was experimenting on similar lines at Dundee, Scotland, and perfected a system of radio communication by conduction, signaling across the Tay over two miles. We shall not consider his work in detail, but need only say that it had the effect of interesting W. H. Preece in the subject of radio communication. In 1870 Preece was appointed Divisional Engineer to the English General Post Office and later (1892) became Engineer-in-Chief.

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