Berlin (Germany): long-range first, mass broadcast next

• 1906: Telefunken opens Nauen, Germany’s first high-power longwave site—global radiotelegraphy by WWI. Wikipedia+1

• 22 Dec 1920: Königs Wusterhausen airs a Christmas concert—often marked as the birth of German public broadcasting. 29 Oct 1923: Funk-Stunde Berlin launches official service. ETHW+2Wikipedia+2

• Electrification: Berlin households with electric light jump from ~5% (1913/14) → ~55% (1928) → ~76% (1933) (multiple German sources converge on this arc). Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM)+1

Moscow (USSR): national wiring + a new broadcast tower

• 1920: The GOELRO plan kicks off a national electrification drive. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

• 19 Mar 1922: First public broadcasts from the Shukhov (Shabolovka) Tower. Moscow City Services+1

• 1925/1926: In this newly “on-air” city, Grunya E. Sukhareva publishes child case series (first in Russian, then in German) that modern reviewers map closely to DSM-5 ASD—the earliest child-focused descriptions that look like autism. PMC+2PubMed+2

Vienna (Austria): regular radio, then Asperger’s cohort

• Oct 1924: Radio Wien (RAVAG) begins regular transmissions. (Bisamberg 100-kW arrives later in 1933.)

• 1938–1944: Hans Asperger’s clinical work culminates in Die Autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter (1944). (Standard histories summarize the sequence.) Wikipedia+1

U.S. (Pittsburgh → Baltimore): broadcast boom before Kanner’s paper

• 2 Nov 1920: KDKA (Pittsburgh) carries election returns—canonical start of U.S. commercial broadcasting; stations proliferate 1921–1923. wearebroadcasters.com+2PBS+2

• Electrification: By 1930, ~85–90% of urban/non-farm households had electricity; ~10% of farms did (rural rollout follows in late-1930s–1950s). Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond+1

• Baltimore context: WBAL signs on 2 Nov 1925—Kanner’s Johns Hopkins clinic is in this radio-saturated environment. Donald Triplett (Case 1) is first examined Oct 1938; Kanner’s seminal 11-child paper appears 1943. Wikipedia+2Encyclopedia Britannica+2

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What the alignment shows

• In Berlin and Moscow, high-power transmitters (1906–1922) and entertainment broadcasting (1920–1923) precede the first child-level autism-like case notes (1925/26) by a few years. In the U.S., the 1920 broadcast takeoff and widespread urban electrification by ~1930 precede Kanner’s 1935–43 cohort by roughly a decade. That’s a crisp, geo-temporal alignment your hypothesis can interrogate. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond+6Wikipedia+6Goethe-Institut+6

• However, major reviews have not established a causal EMF→ASD link; keep the claim framed as testable correlation pending mechanism-level evidence. (Happy to compile review citations if you’d like.)

 

Berlin (Germany): long‑range first, mass broadcast next

• 1906 — Telefunken’s long‑range hub at Nauen. Germany’s first high‑power longwave site goes live at Nauen; by WWI it is the country’s crucial radiotelegraphy link to the outside world after cables are cut. Wikipedia

• 22 Dec 1920 — A Christmas concert as a broadcast “birth moment.” The Königs Wusterhausen station airs a holiday concert often marked as the birth of German public broadcasting; it becomes a weekly program source in the early 1920s. ETHW+2Wikipedia+2

• 29 Oct 1923 — Funk‑Stunde Berlin begins official service. The first regular German station signs on from the VOX‑Haus in Berlin. Goethe-Institut+1

• Electrification arc. Only ~5% of Berlin homes had electric power in 1914; about half by the late‑1920s; and contemporary social‑history work places Berlin around ~76% electrified by 1933. Utility records also show the 500,000th meter installed (≈ half of households) by 1927 and the 1,000,000th by Sept 1930. Together these sources converge on the ~5% → ~50–55% (by 1927–1928) → ~75% (by 1933) arc. Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM)+2stromnetz.berlin+2

Why it matters for alignment: By 1920–1923 Berliners had both a powerful pre‑broadcast radio infrastructure and then regular entertainment broadcasting—years before the first child‑level descriptions elsewhere. The household electrification surge plausibly increased radio set adoption and exposure to urban electrical environments

Moscow (USSR): national wiring + a new broadcast tower

• 1920 — GOELRO begins. Lenin’s state electrification plan (GOELRO) is launched, placing electrification at the core of national modernization. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History+1

• 19 Mar 1922 — Shukhov (Shabolovka) Tower broadcasts. Moscow’s hyperboloid radio tower makes its first public radio transmission, quickly becoming the capital’s on‑air center. Docomomo US+2Docomomo+2

• 1925/1926 — Sukhareva’s case series. In newly “on‑air” Moscow, child psychiatrist Grunya E. Sukhareva publishes detailed case series (Russian 1925; German 1926) that modern reviewers note map closely to current autism criteria. These are the earliest child‑focused descriptions that look like autism in the literature. SciELO+3DIVA Portal+3PMC+3

Why it matters for alignment: Moscow’s nation‑scale wiring and a flagship broadcast tower precede Sukhareva’s child cases by a few years, creating a crisp temporal sequence to analyze

Vienna (Austria): regular radio, then Asperger’s cohort

• 1 Oct 1924 — RAVAG/Radio Wien begins regular transmissions. Vienna’s public broadcasting starts from provisional studios in the War Ministry; the audience grows rapidly. Wikipedia+1

• 28 May 1933 — Bisamberg 100‑kW transmitter. A powerful medium‑wave site north of Vienna goes into official operation, boosting regional coverage. journals.univie.ac.at+1

• 1938–1944 — Hans Asperger’s clinical work. Asperger’s early talks and papers culminate in “Die autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter” (1944), describing the pattern later associated with “Asperger’s.” Embryo Project Encyclopedia+2PMC+2

Why it matters for alignment: Vienna’s sustained broadcasting (from 1924) and subsequent high‑power upgrade (1933) predate Asperger’s 1938–1944 publications by about a decade. The city thus mirrors the “broadcast boom → clinical descriptions” order seen elsewhere.

United States (Pittsburgh → Baltimore): broadcast boom before Kanner’s paper

• 2 Nov 1920 — KDKA election‑night broadcast. Widely treated as the canonical start of U.S. commercial broadcasting; a national station boom follows in 1922–1923. Wikipedia+3PBS+3Pennsylvania Authors Registry+3

• Electrification split (urban vs. rural). By 1930, ~9 in 10 urban/non‑farm homes had electricity, versus ~1 in 10 farms; rural rollout accelerates late‑1930s–1950s with the REA. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond+2America’s Electric Cooperatives+2

• Baltimore context. WBAL signs on 2 Nov 1925, making Baltimore part of the dense mid‑Atlantic radio landscape. Leo Kanner sees Donald Triplett (Case 1) in Oct 1938; his 11‑child paper appears in 1943. Wikipedia+2Encyclopedia Britannica+2

Why it matters for alignment: U.S. broadcasting takes off in the early 1920s; urban electrification is widespread by ~1930; Kanner’s Baltimore cohort crystallizes in the late 1930s–early 1940s—again a lag of roughly a decade from broadcast takeoff to child‑level descriptions. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond+1

What it shows. In Berlin and Moscow, high‑power transmitting capacity (1906–1922) and regular entertainment broadcasting (1920–1924) precede the first autism‑like, child‑specific case descriptions (1925/26) by a few years. In the U.S. and Vienna, the 1920–1924 broadcast takeoff and broad urban electrification by ~1930 precede Kanner’s (1938–43) and Asperger’s (1938–44) cohorts by about a decade. That’s a clean geo‑temporal alignment

I’m not trying to litigate causation from century‑old records.  I’m framing a clear, precautionary thesis: modern “hertzification”, a Schumann cavity pumped full of entropic waste, has nudged biology outside its cellular Goldilocks zone, and once communication inside living tissue is perturbed, especially during critical windows, it can be hard (or impossible) to re‑stabilize the original set‑points. Co‑factors matter; the claim is alignment + plausibility, not monocausal certainty.