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Radio Kootwijk

Radio Kootwijk

An extremely expensive and short-lived engineering marvel

On the night of 18-19 January 1923, the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) caught the first test signals from the Dutch broadcasting station Kootwijk, over 12,000 kilometres away. It was a miracle of technology—or was it?

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