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Welcome to today’s Seminar where we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of first cable across the Atlantic Ocean which provided in August 1858, for the first time, telegraphic communications between North America and the UK. As well as hearing about this major event we will review the subsequent evolution of telecommunications between these countries.
Overview of the history of transatlantic communications, from the first telegraph cable to satellite communications, with a timeline showing major events from 1600-2000.
The discoveries in wireless technology by Guglielmo Marconi, Reginald Fessenden and others, which led to Marconi's successful project to signal across the Atlantic by wireless are reviewed, together with a technical account of that wireless broadcast.
Faraday’s ideas, the theoretical work of James Clerk Maxwell and the pioneering experiments of Hertz and Lodge laid the groundwork for Marconi to develop wireless telegraphy and Fessenden to develop radio telephony and sound broadcasting. Wireless telegraphy commenced with spark transmission and was a major competitor to submarine cables on the transatlantic route. Although radio telephony using CW...
The discoveries in wireless technology by Guglielmo Marconi, Reginald Fessenden and others, which led to Marconi’s successful project to signal across the Atlantic by wireless are reviewed, together with a technical account of that wireless broadcast.
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