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(More customer reviews)Back in the day, say between 1901 and 1930, after the wireless radio was invented, a new craze sprang up. Everybody wanted to message each other, especially young boys between 12 and 18. This book is the first of a series of books aimed at curious young lads, who weren't ready for girls, but were enthralled by the idea of communicating with each other and listening to shortwave radio. There were other series, like the Tom Swift books, too. Anything with "wireless" and "radio" and "boys" were bought up by youngsters who made home-made wireless sets and wanted to read about it. The books offered various instruction on how to set up your set (without becoming manuals) mixed in with the plots. The 3 boys here are your average "good" boys, in a Boy Scout way. And there's a story of a young woman who's been duped of her mortgage money, but thanks to our boys, she gets it back.
Clean, wholesome, in a "gosh, chums" kind of way these books may bore the heck out of modern kids with their texting devices they take for granted, but you know now, that messaging among kids is not new.
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