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Early innovations in maritime telemedical services: the KDKF Radio Medico Station [PDF]
“MAN PUT HIS TONGUE AGAINST REFRIGERATOR PIPE AND GOT IT FROZEN; HAVE THAWED IT OUT AND IT IS NOW BLISTERED AND SWOLLEN BUT NOT PAINFUL. ARRIVING HONOLULU FRIDAY; HOW CAN I HELP HIM MEANWHILE?” Thus read a message relayed via radiogram across the ocean ...
Johnathan Thayer+1 more
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A Historical Twist on Long-Range Wireless: Building a 103 km Multi-Hop Network Replicating Claude Chappe’s Telegraph [PDF]
In 1794, French Engineer Claude Chappe coordinated the deployment of a network of dozens of optical semaphores. These formed “strings” that were hundreds of kilometers long, allowing for nationwide telegraphy.
Mina Rady+8 more
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Metasurface‐Assisted Wireless Communication with Physical Level Information Encryption [PDF]
Since the discovery of wireless telegraphy in 1897, wireless communication via electromagnetic (EM) signals has become a standard solution to address increasing demand for information transfer in modern society.
Yilin Zheng+6 more
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WE beg to thank Mr. Gordon for drawing attention to the fact that the principle of rotation of plane of polarisation of light in a magnetic field could not actually be employed with the form of receiver symbolically described by us in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 589. Having satisfied ourselves that there could be no doubt of the feasibility of using the first
John Perry, W.E. Ayrton
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“tmospherics”in Wireless Telegraphy [PDF]
WITH reference to Prof. Perry's letter on atmospherics in NATURE of January 8, a description of some experiments made by us in the summer of 1912, and continued last summer, may be of interest. A receiving station was erected near Rothbury, in Northumberland, with an antenna consisting of two horizontal wires stretched about 3 ft. from the ground.
W H Hall, H. Morris-Airey
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Twentieth Century Telegraphy [PDF]
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Charles W. Geiger
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Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain
This article explores a link between gutta-percha, the natural South-East Asian latex used nearly exclusively as an insulation for nineteenth-century British telegraph cables, and the development of electromagnetic field theory. Field theory emerged from
Kameron Sanzo
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