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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17365, 29 March 1928, Page 10

Everything has a beginning somewhere, usually a small one often so small that no one takes much heed of it When vou turn the knobs of your wireless set to-day to tune in you are reallv putting into practical use he laws that a Frenchman named Faraday spent vcars and years of thought in working out. It was on Christmas Day 1821, that Faraday discovered that a magnet could be made to move when suspended over a coil of wire through which an electric current wis running. Ten years later he discovered a piece of apparatus that was the real beginning of all wireless apparatus today. He showed how a current could be induced or set flowing in one wire as the current rose and fell in another wire nlaced near il»