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English: Drawing made by Mahlon Loomis, circa 1866, in one of his notebooks, illustrating what he described as a successful wireless communication transmission experiment he made that year in Virginia, spanning 18 miles (29 kilometers) between Bear's Den mountain and an unnamed peak in the Catoctin Mountain range. This image is part of the U.S. Library of Congress' "Mahlon Loomis’s Journal" collection. (https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/uc125.3p1s.jpg)
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