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Yes but it's not "particularly American".

"In November 1898, an optical instrument maker and inventor named Sir Howard Grubb addressed the Royal Dublin Society and proposed the concept of a radio controlled clock."

It was already used in telegraph transmission.

America just implemented first.



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