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“Buzz-Bomb Blitz”
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit Living through a UAV attack. “Buzz-Bomb Blitz” includes comments from those who lived through the V-1 bombings. Visit Source Download PDF…
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Winston Churchill During the Second World War
The Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, with Captain The Right Honourable David Margesson, Secretary of State for War, watching preparations being made in an unspecified UK location for the launch …
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Radio
The invention of wireless telegraphy-radio-at the end of the 19th century by Marconi and others made it possible to communicate with anyone, anywhere, around the globe. It soon became apparent, howeve…
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Electric Waves by Dr. Heinrich Hertz, 1857-1894
Radio Inquiry Unit Electric Waves, Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space, by Dr. Heinrich Hertz, 1857-1894. The English translation of Hertz…
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Wireless Telegraphic Communications, Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize Lecture, December 11, 1901
Radio Inquiry Unit | Information Theory Inquiry Unit
In 1909, Guglielmo Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy. Here you will find a link to the lecture, which includes Marconi’s explanation …
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Biography of Guglielmo Marconi
Radio Inquiry Unit IEEE Biography of Guglielmo Marconi "Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to Giuseppe and Annie Jameson Marconi. His father was a prosperous Italian landowner and his mother was…
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Lines and Waves – Faraday, Maxwell, and 150 Years of Electromagnetism
Radio Inquiry Unit | Information Theory Inquiry Unit
An Exhibit by the IEEE History Center (1981) Written by Robert D. Friedel “It was 150 years ago that the English scientist Michael Faraday discovered that he could generate electricity with magnet…
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Maxwell’s Equations, 1860-1871
Radio Inquiry Unit - Supporting Questions 1A IEEE Milestone's: Maxwell's Equations, 1860-1871 Visit Source Download PDF…
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Original Radio Program
Radio Inquiry Unit (Featured Sources, Supporting Question 3) All of the information below is also available in the pdf linked below. ORIGINAL RADIO PLAY: Create an original radio program using the…
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Slideshow of Photographs of The Olympias
Triremes Inquiry Unit A trireme reconstruction, known as 'OLYMPIAS', which was initiated in Greece in 1985 and completed in 1987, as shared by the Hellenic Navy. Visit Source Visit Source Download…
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