Sunday, April 15, 2018

Houdini was a "wireless telephone" pioneer

Here's an interesting item from The Pittsburgh Press dated February 12, 1922. Looks like we can add this to the lists of Houdini firsts.


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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2 comments:

  1. MantooApril 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM

    Aha! Time traveler. I knew it.

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  2. Tom and JohanApril 16, 2018 at 3:28 PM

    I 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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