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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
Description: Today in 1939, the opening of the World's Fair in New York. One of the inventions featured there was a way that newspapers could broadcast newspapers over the radio and have special receivers print out a copy of the paper for customers. Plus: Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium is also home to the Moist Towelette Museum?!?
A Look Back at the Radio Newspaper of the Air (Radio World)
Moist Towelette Museum (Weird Universe)
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