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The best known systems of wireless telegraphy in the United States are the Marconi, the De Forest and the Fes-senden systems, and one or two systems used by the Government. In England, aside from the Marconi system, are the Lodge-Muirhead and the Orling-Armstrong systems. The Slaby-Arco and the Braun-Siemens-Halske systems are used in Germany. In France, Branley, Rochefort, Tissot and Captain Ferrie have made important developments, and in Russia Popoff early invented a system very similar to that of Marconi.
 
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