Wireless age
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In 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri, Tesla made devices for his
experiments with the electricity. Addressing the Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia and the National Electric Light Association, he
described and demonstrated in detail the principles of their work.
[2] They contained all the elements that were later incorporated
into radio systems before the development of the vacuum tube. He
initially experimented with magnetic receivers, unlike the coherers
used by Marconi and other early experimenters. Tesla is usually
considered the first to apply the mechanism of electrical conduction
to wireless practices.
On 19 August 1894, British physicist Sir Oliver Lodge demonstrated
the reception of Morse code signaling using radio waves using a
detecting device called a coherer, a tube filled with iron filings
which had been invented by Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti at Fermo in
Italy in 1884. Edouard Branly of France and Popov of Russia later
produced improved versions of the coherer. |
Alexander Popov, who was the first to develop a practical
communication system based on the coherer, is sometimes considered
to have been the inventor of radio. In 1894 he built a coherer and
presented it to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7,
1895 [4]. In March 1896, he transmitted radio waves between
different campus buildings in Saint Petersburg, but did not bother
to apply for a patent.
Between 1894 and 1900 the Indian physicist Jagdish Chandra Bose
performed pioneering research on radio waves and created waves as
short as 5 mm. [5] In November 1894, Bose ignited gunpowder and rang
a bell at a distance using electromagnetic waves, confirming that
communication signals could be sent without using wires, but he too
was not interested in patenting his work.
The New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
was instrumental in the development of radio. In 1895 he was awarded
an Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Scholarship to Cambridge. He
arrived in England with a reputation as an innovator and inventor,
and distinguished himself in several fields, initially by divining
the electrical properties of solids and then using wireless waves as
a method of signaling. Rutherford was encouraged in his work by Sir
Robert Ball, who had been scientific adviser to the body maintaining
lighthouses on the Irish coastline; he wished to solve the difficult
problem of a ship’s inability to detect a lighthouse in fog. Sensing
fame and fortune, Rutherford increased the sensitivity of his
apparatus until he could detect electromagnetic waves over a
distance of several hundred meters. Thomson quickly realized that
Rutherford was a researcher of exceptional ability and invited him
to join in a study of the electrical conduction of gases. The
commercial development of wireless technology was thus left for
Guglielmo Marconi.
"Wireless" factories and vacuum tubes
Marconi opened the world's first "wireless" factory in Hall Street,
Chelmsford, England in 1898, employing around 50 people. Around
1900, Tesla opened the Wardenclyffe Tower facility and advertised
services. By 1903, the tower structure neared completion. Various
theories exist on how Tesla intended to achieve the goals of this
wireless system (reportedly, a 200 kW system). Tesla claimed that
Wardenclyffe, as part of a World System of transmitters, would have
allowed secure multichannel transcribing of information, universal
navigation, time synchronization, and a global location system.
The next great invention was the vacuum tube detector, invented by a
team of Westinghouse engineers. On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald
Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first
radio program broadcast in history from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O
Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. The
world's first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by
station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan. The world's first regular
entertainment broadcasts commenced in 1922 from the Marconi Research
Centre at Writtle near Chelmsford, England.
In 1896 Marconi was awarded what is sometimes recognized as the
world's first patent for radio with British Patent 12039,
Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in
apparatus there-for. In 1897 he established the world's first radio
station on the Isle of Wight, England. The same year in the U.S.,
some key developments in radio's early history were created and
patented by Tesla. The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision in
1904, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly
influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who
included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. Some believe this was
made for financial reasons, allowing the U.S. government to avoid
having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla for use
of his patents.
In 1909, Marconi, with Karl Ferdinand Braun, was also awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of
wireless telegraphy". However, Tesla's patent (number 645576) was
reinstated in 1943 by the U.S. Supreme Court, shortly after his
death. This decision was based on the fact that prior art existed
before the establishment of Marconi's patent. Some believe the
decision was also made for financial reasons, to allow the U.S.
government to avoid having to pay damages that were being claimed by
the Marconi Company for use of its patents during World War I. |
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