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    A History of Radio Technology

    Demystifying Telecommunications
    By: Al Klase

    Timeline

    A Mysterious Force
    Start at the beginning In the Stone Age
    Sticks Stones Animal Parts

    Amber
    Naturally polymerized tree resin Greeks called it elektron

    Electrostatic Experiments

    The Electroscope

    Ca. 1746

    The Condenser or Capacitor


    Stores Energy as electrostatic charge.

    C=Q/V Q = charge in Coulombs


    Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)

    V = EMF in Volts
    7

    Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)

    Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)

    Ca. 1774

    Circuits and Schematics

    10

    Yet Another Mysterious Force


    Heavy black rock Lodestone Proved to be iron ore Greeks found theirs in Magnesia

    11

    The Compass

    12

    Magnetic Field due to Electrical Current

    1831 - Michael Faraday

    13

    Electro Magnets

    14

    Electro Magnet and Inductor


    Stores energy as a magnetic field.
    Taught and did research at Princeton.

    Joseph Henry 1797 - 1878

    Ca. 1824

    15

    Samuel Morses Telegraph


    1838
    (Binary Serial Communications!)

    Speedwell Morristown.

    16

    Alternating Current

    17

    Oscillation and Resonance

    18

    Bell - 1875
    AT&T
    Alexander Graham Bell

    Experimental multiplex telegraph apparatus.

    19

    The Gallows Telephone

    20

    Carbon Microphone
    Thomas A. Edison
    Visit the lab in West Orange

    21

    Maxwell
    Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)

    James Clerk Maxwell 1831 - 1879

    22

    23

    High-frequency AC Oscillator

    24

    Eureka!

    25

    Hertz
    Ca. 1888

    Heinrich Hertz 1857 - 1894

    26

    The First Radio Receiver

    27

    A Hertzian Experiment

    From Invention & Innovation in the Radio Industry, W. Rupert MacLaurin, 1949

    28

    Guglielmo Marconi
    Born 1874 Wealthy Italian father Wealthy Irish mother (Jamison) Tech. Institute at Leghorn included telegraphy Inspired by Hertzs Obituary in 1894

    29

    Marconi
    at Villa Grifone

    Photos and drawings from Early Radio by Peter R. Jensen

    30

    Marconi Developments
    1896 Moves to Great Britain Sept. 1896, 2.8Km, Salisbury Plain Mar. 97, 14Km, Bristol Channel Late 1898, 29Km, Isle of Wright

    31

    Marconi 1896

    32

    33

    Patent 7777
    Application filed 12 April 1900

    From The Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy J. A. Fleming, London, 1913

    34

    Passive Receivers

    35

    The Fleming Valve

    John Ambrose Fleming3 (1849 - 1945)

    36

    Marconi Timeline
    1899 - Spans English channel 1901 Trans-Atlantic signals 1901 Americas Cup Twin Lights 1903 First two-way Trans-Atlantic 1909 Republic / Florida Collision 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics
    Atlantic Highlands

    37

    David Sarnoff

    38

    Sarnoff / RCA Timeline


    1906 - Hired as office boy a the Marconi Company 1907 Promoted to Junior Operator, age 16 1912 Titanic Sarnoff was Marconi op in station in the Wanamakers Department store in NYC 1913 Chief Inspector Sarnoff meets Armstrong 1916 Proposes Radio Music Box 1917 Sarnoff appointed Commercial Manager 1919 RCA established

    39

    We need a reliable Amplifier!

    40

    From The Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy J. A. Fleming, London, 1913


    41

    The Audion

    Lee Deforest 1906

    42

    An Audion Radio Receiver

    43

    Armstrong

    Edwin Howard Armstrong

    44

    The Regenerative Circuit


    Great amplification obtained at once!

    45

    Regen Prototype
    Demonstrated to Sarnoff at the Marconi station at Belmar

    46

    Radiotelephone

    47

    The Birth of Broadcasting

    48

    Timeline

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