Joseph Olhoeft was a master car mechanic. He and Roy found a $25 Model T Ford with a problem. Joseph instructed his son to lay every part of the car on the lawn, identify the problem and repair it. If Roy could reassemble the car and get it to drive correctly, he could have the Model T.
Sure enough, Roy found the worn out washer in the transmission.
He went on to buy wrecked sports cars and fix them up for resale. Around 1930, with a crystal radio kit, Roy assembled his family's first radio.
Actually, by the 1930s, we'd had intercontinental radio--then called "the wireless"--for several decades. We had telephones and crude televisions, refrigerators, washing machines and military radar.
In 1934, Congress established the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC. "Go forth and market electronics," the FCC proclaimed to inventors, "as long as they don't create 'harmful interference.'" The FCC defined "harmful interference" as anything that interferes with existing licensed services such as radio or TV broadcasts.
Today, this definition includes cell phone and Internet services.
At the FCC, "harmful interference" has never included biological harm--that is, health or environmental harm caused by exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by electronics.
Call this exclusion of nature. Call it disregard for the regulation to First, do no harm.
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