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    From JMB99@mb@nospam.net to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Aug 12 10:36:47 2025
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    I see they managed it in 1912!


    Globe - Saturday 06 January 1912
    WIRELESS REGULATION OF CLOCKS
    A system for regulating clocks wireless newer is being tried at the town
    of Fulda. has been erected by the postal department, from which all the
    public clocks will regulated from hour to hour means wireless waves transmitted them. The wireless system adopted is that of Professor
    Schmeider.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Aug 12 11:45:35 2025
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    On 2025/8/12 10:36:47, JMB99 wrote:
    I see they managed it in 1912!


    Globe - Saturday 06 January 1912
    WIRELESS REGULATION OF CLOCKS
    A system for regulating clocks wireless newer is being tried at the town
    of Fulda. has been erected by the postal department, from which all the public clocks will regulated from hour to hour means wireless waves transmitted them. The wireless system adopted is that of Professor Schmeider.
    I'm presuming this was just a sync. pulse, i. e. to keep the clocks on
    time; I can't imagine they actually had _coding_ in 1912. (Though I
    could be wrong; engineers of that time were very ingenious, sometimes
    seeming more so than their counterparts of today!)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
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