Talk:Walkie-talkie

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"During the war it was developed by Donald L. Hings and engineering teams at Motorola.[1]" - Nonsens really "Walkie-Talkie" is project Polish engineer Henryk Magnuski:

"The first radio receiver/transmitter to be nick-named "Walkie-Talkie" was the backpacked Motorola SCR-300, created by an engineering team in 1940 at the Galvin Manufacturing Company (fore-runner of Motorola). The team consisted of Dan Noble, who conceived of the design using FM technology, Henryk Magnuski who was the principal RF engineer, Marion Bond, Lloyd Morris, and Bill Vogel. Motorola also produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during the war, and it was called the "Handie-Talkie" (HT)."

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