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The birth pains of radio
The author discusses the origins of radio communication in the late 1800s. The motivation for its development is considered as are early experiments by various people.
Oliver Lodge and the origins of spark transmission
The origins of radio are intimately bound up with the use of sparks for generating electromagnetic waves. This has important implications for the forms of early transmitters and receivers. At the beginning of the era it was not known whethe...
The Heinrich Hertz wireless experiments at Karlsruhe in the view of modern communication
Highlights the contributions of Heinrich Hertz by his experiments, carried out in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the years 1885 to 1889, to the first radio communication experiments. Heinrich Hertz developed for the first time a complete pulsed rad...
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