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COMPONENTS, EVENTUALLY ASSEMBLING A 1 KW STATION FOR THEM.  THE FRIENDSHIP
THAT THEY FORMED WOULD INFLUENCE THE FATE OF THE AMATEUR RADIO WORLD.
MAXIM ORGANIZES IN THIS LAST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THERE WAS A
RAPIDLY GROWING PUBLIC INTEREST IN ELECTRICITY, ELECTRONICS, AND WIRELESS
COMMUNICATION.  SEVERAL PERIODICALS AROSE TO CATER TO THIS INTEREST
FOREMOST WAS BUBIERS POPULAR ELECTRONICS, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1890 AND LATER
TO BECOME ELECTRICIAN AND MECHANIC IN 1906.  FROM HUGO GERNSBACKS ELECTRIC
IMPORTING COMPANY CATALOGUE CAME MODERN ELECTRIC, WHICH CLAIMED 100,000
READERS IN 1908.  THOUGH MANY OF THESE PUBLICATIONS WOULD BECOME LOST AS
MAGAZINES WERE CONSOLIDATED, IN THE EARLY YEARS THEY ENCOURAGED AMATEURS TO
ORGANIZE INTO CLUBS, AS WELL AS SPONSORED A NUMBER OF SMALL GROUPS.  DURING
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