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Cavendish Laboratory : The magnetic detector from Rutherford's radio receiver

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>When Rutherford arrived from New Zealand in 1895, he brought with him his radio receiver. Until mid-1896, this was his main research work and, for a few months, he held the world distance record for radio communication from the Cambridge Observatories to central Cambridge, a distance of about 1.5 miles.</p>

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