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First land based wireless mobile: 1901

First land based wireless mobile: 1901 by abaporu.
"In 1901 Marconi placed a radio aboard a Thornycroft steam powered truck, thus producing the first land based wireless mobile. (Transmitting data, of course, and not voice.) Arthur C. Clarke says the vehicle's cylindrical antenna was lowered to a horizontal position before the the wagon began moving. Marconi never envisioned his system broadcasting voices, he always thought of radio as a wireless telegraph."

source: www.privateline.com/mt_digitalbasics/ 

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