Overview: Offers a history of amateur radio hobby communities in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.Examines radio as a site where hobbyists, tinkerers, and other individuals encountered and ultIn the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with an often frightening wave of new mass technologies. Radio was the object of scientific investigation, but more importantly, it was the domain of tinkerers, “hackers,” citizen scientists, and ho
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