The Art Deco radio station in Kootwijk, Netherlands, designed in 1920 by Dutch architect Julius Maria Luthmann—a few more here instagram.com/p/CZ_qkW6q5zv/
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Radio Kootwijk was built as a communication facility between the Netherlands and its colonies, in particular the Dutch East Indies, today Indonesia.
It had 6 more then 200-meter high VLF transmitters, destroyed in 1945 by the retracting Germans
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The transmitter hall in the 1920s
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'On 23 January 1923 the first signals of the Dutch Radio Kootwijk were received in Bandoeng in Indonesia. Radio could now reach everyone, and soon everyone could reach for a radio...'
[From 'The History of Information Security', 2007, p. 103]
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