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Over the past century, radio has shrunken dramatically from the wooden \

Over the past century, radio has shrunken dramatically from the wooden "cathedral" style radios of the 1930s to the pocket-sized transistor radios of the 1950s and more recently to the single-chip radios found in cell phones and wireless sensors. The new nanotube radio is over nineteen orders-of-magnitude smaller than the Philco vacuum tube radio from the 1930s! Credit: Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley.

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