What a minute, a "wireless telephone"? Wouldn't that be a cellphone? Now that would be a first!
However, wireless telephone didn't mean then what it means today. For a full explanation, check out this terrific article at Smithsonian: A Mobile Phone From 1922? Not Quite.
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Aha! Time traveler. I knew it.
ReplyDeleteI never knew exactly why old films sometimes referred to radios as "the wireless" so this explains it. Coincidental (or not) that Houdini's act later included Dorothy Young jumping out of a giant "wireless" and doing the Charleston!
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