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Atmospheric Absorption of Wireless Signals

Nature volume 76, page 444 (1907)Cite this article

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IN the Electrical Review, May 11 and 18, the writer has given curves which show that telegraph messages exchanged between Scotland and Massachusetts are received on some nights with practically no absorption, while on other nights and in daytime nine hundred and ninety-nine one-thousandths (0.999) of the energy is absorbed.

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FESSENDEN, R. Atmospheric Absorption of Wireless Signals. Nature 76, 444 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076444b0

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