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Da saß der fleißige junge Mensch an seinen Abenden und stocherte eine solche Maschine zusammen, hingerissen von der Idee der Drahtlosigkeit, anbetend auf frommen Knien vor dem Gott der Technik, welcher es fertiggebracht hat, nach Jahrtausenden Dinge zu entdecken und höchst unvollkommen darzustellen, welche jeder Denker schon immer gewußt und klüger benutzt hat.
There the industrious young man spent his evenings, fitting together the apparatus, a victim to the charms of wireless, and kneeling on pious knees before the god of applied science whose might had made it possible to discover after thousands of years a fact which every thinker has always known and put to better use than in this recent and very imperfect development.
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