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In 1900 Lee de Forest patented a device that that improved reception of weak [radio] signals and then challenged Marconi to see who could best provide up-to-the-minute coverage of the international yacht races off New York. The test proved nothing. The rivals transmitters jammed each other and reporters at sea found themselves flashing the news to shore, just as they always had, by semaphore. Frustrated Lee de Forest dumped his transmitter overboard.
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