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Improved communications at sea: a need and a new technology
The world's first radio company was registered in Britain in 1897. Many people then expected that conventional line telegraphs, with their costly paraphernalia of wires, posts and submarine cables, would soon be obsolete. But in practice, f...
Dawn in radio technology in Japan
The history of telecommunications in Japan is traced back to 1854. The public telegraphic service was inaugurated in 1869 between Tokyo and Yokohama just after the birth of Meiji government. Since the establishment of communication networks...
Wireless in the Boer War
The Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902) was the first occasion in which wireless communications were used in a military conflict. The paper traces the history from the point of view of both the British and the Boer forces: both of whom had...
Fessenden and Marconi: their differing technologies and transatlantic experiments during the first decade of this century
Discusses the origin of transatlantic radio communication in the LF band. The paper considers the differing antenna, transmitter and receiver technology available. The first transatlantic experiment is then described in detail. the author g...
Wide-band high frequency signals from Poldhu? The propagating spectrum and terminal equipment revisited
In 1901 Marconi attempted to transmit radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. The most powerful spark transmitter ever built was operated at Poldhu in Cornwall. While on Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, at about midday, Marconi lis...
Marconi's Irish connections recalled
The author discusses the life of Marconi from 1894 in Bologna, Italy, through his first commercial break in 1898 in Ireland to the commencement of broadcasting in 1923. His work at Crookhaven, Clifden and Letterfrack are considered.
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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