History Of Wireless Communication To 1930

by Thorn Mayes

Publication date 1975-04-04

“History of Wireless Communication to 1930.” April 4, 1975, 52 min. Talk by early wireless historian Thorn Mayes about commercial, government and amateur radio operations beginning in about 1897. Development of radio communication beginning with spark transmission and continuing thru early vacuum tubes to about 1930. Includes examples of the sound of multiple spark transmissions (QRM). From the Thorn Mayes Sound Recordings (#02-5C), Perham Collection of Early Electronics, History San Jose. Transferred from audiocassette in 2015.

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