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Black and white photograph of Dame Ellie Melba singing into an early microphone from 1920

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Australian operatic soprano Dame Nellie Melba making the world’s first radio broadcast by a professional musician, 15 June 1920, using a Marconi C.100 L microphone of the Peel-Conner type

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150402/011