Book contents
- Frontmatter
- SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
- A HISTORY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- FIRST PERIOD–THE POSSIBLE
- SECOND PERIOD–THE PRACTICABLE
- THIRD PERIOD–THE PRACTICAL
- APPENDIX A THE BELATION BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND LIGHT – BEFORE AND AFTER HERTZ
- APPENDIX B PROF. HENRY ON HIGH TENSION ELECTRICITY BEING CONFINED TO THE SURFACE OF CONDUCTING BODIES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTNINRODS
- APPENDIX C VARIATIONS OF CONDUCTIVITY UNDER ELECTRICAL INFLUENCE
- APPENDIX D RESEARCHES OF PROF. D. E. HUGHES, F.R.S., IN ELECTRIC WAVES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, 1879-1886
- APPENDIX E REPRINT OF SIGNOR G. MARCONI'S PATENT
- INDEX
THIRD PERIOD–THE PRACTICAL
SYSTEMS IN ACTUAL USE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
- A HISTORY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- FIRST PERIOD–THE POSSIBLE
- SECOND PERIOD–THE PRACTICABLE
- THIRD PERIOD–THE PRACTICAL
- APPENDIX A THE BELATION BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND LIGHT – BEFORE AND AFTER HERTZ
- APPENDIX B PROF. HENRY ON HIGH TENSION ELECTRICITY BEING CONFINED TO THE SURFACE OF CONDUCTING BODIES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTNINRODS
- APPENDIX C VARIATIONS OF CONDUCTIVITY UNDER ELECTRICAL INFLUENCE
- APPENDIX D RESEARCHES OF PROF. D. E. HUGHES, F.R.S., IN ELECTRIC WAVES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, 1879-1886
- APPENDIX E REPRINT OF SIGNOR G. MARCONI'S PATENT
- INDEX
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of Wireless TelegraphyIncluding Some Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs, pp. 135 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1901