Ref: RADIOHISTORIA
Harry Lippitz
From: "Jan" <sm6...@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: se.hobby.amatorradio
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: RADIOHISTORIA.
> Marconi och Fessenden.
>
> 1.. Who first used the word and the method of continues waves?
> 2.. Who was first to transmit voice over radio?
> 3.. Who devised a detector for continous waves?
> 4.. Who first used the method, and the word heterodyne?
> 5.. Who was first to send two-way wireless telegraphy messages across the
> Atlantic Ocean?
> 6.. Who was first to send wireless telephony (voice) across the Atlantic
> Ocean?
> 7.. Who made the world's first wireless broadcast (voice and music)?
>
> The answer to all seven questions is Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, a
> Canadian-born radio pioneer, working in the United States. Fessenden must
> clearly be the pioneer of radio communications as we know it today. I
> wonder
> how many of you have heard of him?
And what about Mahlon Loomis?
Loomis was a dentist in the town of Terra Alta and he send and received his
first transmission around 1868, long before Marconi was even born. The
message was most likely the arrival of the train that had mail for him.
Around 1888 he even received a patent from the US government, together with
a $50 000 development grant, and founded the Loomis telegraph company. At
was also before the turn of the century he sent a message 3 nautical miles
from a ship to a land station in Boston harbour.
Maccaroni was just an entrepeneur who took an idea and "ran with it." Loomis
was systematically wiped out of the history books. Loomis retired to a
lonely cabin in the hills and refused to communicate with anyone unless they
used his "wireless telegraph". He died a lonely man: his one request was to
have flowers placed on his grave. He never got them.
Mvh Harry - SM0VPO