Wireless telegraphy popularly explained
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- Wireless telegraphy popularly explained
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- Contents CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION
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- 1898
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Wireless telegraphy popularly explained
Author: Kerr, Richard, -1915
Year: 1898
Contents CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION - xiii I. SUPPOSED ORIENTAL POWERS OF SIGNALLING THROUGH SPACE WITHOUT WIRES I II. IS THERE ANYTHING SOLID? 9 III. VIBRATIONS IN AIR AND IN THE ETHER 21 IV. JAMES BOWMAN LINDSAY 35 V. INDUCTION EXPERIMENTS BY W. H. PREECE, ESQ., C.B., F.R.S. 45 VI. HERTZIAN WAVES EXPERIMENTS BY SIGNOR MARCONI 61 VII. HERTZIAN WAVES EXPERIMENTS BY DR. LODGE, F.R.S., AND OTHERS 81 VIII. THE USES OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY 93 APPENDIX 100 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF MR. PREECE, C.B., F.R.S. Frontispiece SCALE OF VIBRATIONS 24 ANALYSIS OF LIGHT 26 TUNING-FORKS TO SHOW SYNTONY 30 PORTRAIT OF JAMES BOWMAN LINDSAY 36 PART OF BRISTOL CHANNEL 53 MR. PREECE'S INDUCTION METHOD 57 DR. LODGE'S SYNTONIC JARS 63 TRANSMITTING APPARATUS 65 PORTRAIT OF SIGNOR MARCONI 67 RECEIVING APPARATUS 69 KNOBS AND KITE 74 COHERER AND KITE 76 BOURNEMOUTH STATIONS 77 PORTRAIT OF DR. OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S. 86 ANOTHER METHOD OF DE-COHERING 107 MILLER AND WOODS' RECEIVER 111 Digitized by Google.