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Electronic Music Inquiry Unit
The article was written in 1906 and highlights the unique and extraordinary aspects of the Dynamophone (also called the Telharmonium) from the authors perspective. Numerous photos are in…
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On 25 October 1906 Lee de Forest submitted a patent application on a "Device for amplifying feeble electrical currents", which included the first form of the 3-electrode Audion. The device and…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
By the 1930s, millions of people around the world listen to news, sports, and their favorite shows on their AM (Amplitude Modulation) radios. But technological problems persi…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
After graduating from Columbia University, Armstrong works there as a lab assistant and then serves as an officer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I. While in the army, Arm…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
From an early age, Edwin H. Armstrong is intrigued with wireless technology and decides to become an inventor. In 1912, as a senior in college, he makes a major breakthrough in wireless …
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One of the traits that makes humans unique from other animals is our consciousness, the fact that we can remember concrete ideas, both actual memories and abstract thoughts. These brain activities are…
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Information Theory Unit
Parts I & II By C.E. Shannon Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. With this paper, Claude Shannon provided the theoretical foundation for communication engineering. It describes how inform…
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Often noted as "the father of information theory". "The American mathematician and computer scientist who conceived and laid the foundations for information theory. His theories laid the ground…
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an accomplished painter and inventor, was convinced of the possibility of transmitting words using electricity and wires. In 1840 he patented "Improvement in the Mode o…
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Richard W. Hamming, Morristown, and Bernard D. Holbrook, Madison, N.J., assignors to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Application January 11, 19…
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