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Using bare wires, crackling spark coils and homemade vacuum tubes, Frank Conrad sent a two-hour-long concert of jazz, opera, popular and orchestral music over the airwaves to amateur radio buffs who listened in on crystal radio sets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/east\/2014\/09\/25\/Wilkinsburg-ceremony-to-commemorate-wireless-broadcast\/stories\/201409250020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 25, 2014: An unassuming, two-story, red brick garage on the border of Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg was the site of an important contribution to broadcast history \u2014\u00a0the world\u2019s first wireless &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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