Invisible Threads From Wireless to War
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Invisible Threads From Wireless to War

Season 1
On the eve of an imminent global conflict spies subterfuge and sabotage emerge as the birth of new technologies change the world forever In this untold story of WWI history Nikola Tesla Guglielmo Marconi and a mysterious German wireless company named Telefunken compete for radio supremacy off the east coast of New York while the unseen casualties of war threaten to divide a nation
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Hamlet on the Bay

    56min
    TV-14
    Residents in smalltown Sayville New York are shocked to discover their towns new chocolate factory is really a German wireless station owned by Berlins Telefunken Company The mysterious radio plant competes with inventors Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi for wireless supremacy but as world war looms in Europe residents suspect the powerful station is taking on a more nefarious war role
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  2. S1 E2 - Invisible Enemies

    56min
    TV-14
    As WWI explodes a wireless legal battle grows among Marconi Tesla and Telefunken The US Navy fears that Germanys powerful wireless station is secretly helping them sink ships including the passenger vessel Lusitania but the Navy has no proof After several unexplained factory explosions and ship fires a violent backlash against German Americans erupts threatening to divide the nation
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