Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This wireless amateur came into being about twelve or fourteen years ago. He seemed to be one of the outgrowths of fooling with amateur wire telegraph instruments. A great many boys in years past became bitten with the telegraph bug and built little telegraph systems and communicated with each other in the next house or across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities...