Cahill Patent

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Cahill Patent

Electronic Music Inquiry Unit

Thaddeus Cahill's Patent: Art of and Apparatus For Generating and Distributing Music Electronically This document includes all ten photos from the Thaddeus Cahill patent and some of the written doc…

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A Pre-History of Radio (Part One)

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A Pre-History of Radio (Part One)

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Join historian Alex Magoun on a journey through the history of radio technology from James Clark Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism to Guglielmo Marconi's use of that theory in long-distance radio…

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A Pre-History of Radio (Part Two)

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A Pre-History of Radio (Part Two)

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Continue on the historical journey of the radio industry with historian Alex Magoun as he goes back in time and shares how engineers and scientists improved wireless telegraphy from Morse code to the …

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Commercialization of Broadcast Radio in the Home

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Commercialization of Broadcast Radio in the Home

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This video explores the beginnings of broadcast radio in the home, thanks to Pittsburgh’s KDKA radio station and Westinghouse, which made radio receivers. The electromagnetic “magic†found in sm…

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Crystal Radio

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Crystal Radio

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Like game consoles and smartphones today, radios in the 1920s were expensive. Fortunately for teens back then, they could build radio receivers using cheap parts found at home and hardware stores. Wat…

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Radio

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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

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Electric Waves by Dr. Heinrich Hertz, 1857-1894

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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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