Over the Hump
THIS month the 60th anniversary is being cele-brated of one of the most famous and, let us face it, controversial events in the history of wireless com-munication. It was in December, 1901, that Marconi announced that he had been able to receive at St. Johns, Newfoundland, the succession of triple d...
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1961
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.692.2741 http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Wireless-World/60s/Wireless-World-1961-12.pdf |
| Summary: | THIS month the 60th anniversary is being cele-brated of one of the most famous and, let us face it, controversial events in the history of wireless com-munication. It was in December, 1901, that Marconi announced that he had been able to receive at St. Johns, Newfoundland, the succession of triple dots sent out by the 20-kW spark station at Poldhu on a daily schedule from 3 p.m. G.M.T. onwards. The signals were heard at 12.30 p.m., 1.10 p.m. and 1.20 p.m. local time on 12th December and again less distinctly on the following day. On the 14th Decem-ber Marconi abandoned further experiment owing to the weather, cabled the news of his success to his Company and informed the Press. The whole project had been carried through under |
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