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- Japanese Weather Balloon Radio Transmitter, circa 1942 - A transmitter is an electronic device that, coupled with an antenna, generates radio waves. Transmitters remain essential to devices that we use every day: cell phones, wireless computer networks, navigational tools. During WWII, experiments to use weather balloons as long-range missiles were conducted. It is uncertain at this time if this artifact is connected to this research.
- circa 1942
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Japanese Weather Balloon Radio Transmitter, circa 1942
A transmitter is an electronic device that, coupled with an antenna, generates radio waves. Transmitters remain essential to devices that we use every day: cell phones, wireless computer networks, navigational tools. During WWII, experiments to use weather balloons as long-range missiles were conducted. It is uncertain at this time if this artifact is connected to this research.