Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The phenomenon which Thales had observed and recorded five centuries before the birth of Christ aroused the interest of many scientists through the ages. They made various practical experiments in their efforts to identify the elusive force which Thales had likened to a 'soul'...
The phenomenon which Thales had observed and recorded five centuries before the birth of Christ aroused the interest of many scientists through the ages. They made various practical experiments in their efforts to identify the elusive force which Thales had likened to a 'soul' and which we now know to have been static electricity.
The eight items which follow are not strictly part of the story of the development of amateur radio, but they deal with some historical events which are connected with our hobby...
9. CHAPTER NINESpeech was first transmitted for reception by the general public from Washington D.C. in 1915 when Europe was still at war. During 1916 the first 'broadcasting' station in the w...
7. CHAPTER SEVENAs recorded in detail in chapter 5, George was undoubtedly the first Greek amateur to have two-way contacts using radio telephony, way back in 1921. He was also the first amateu...
1. CHAPTER ONEThe phenomenon which Thales had observed and recorded five centuries before the birth of Christ aroused the interest of many scientists through the ages. They made various pract...
6. CHAPTER SIXSocrates Coutroubis SV1AE described to me how his interest in radio was aroused in 1935 when he was 13 years old. His father had decided to buy a domestic radio receiver.
2. CHAPTER TWOBy 1850 most of the basic electrical phenomena had been investigated. However, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge then came up with...
5. CHAPTER FIVEAs no licences were issued for many years there are no official records to be consulted. Early activity was mainly in and around Athens but there may have been one or two statio...
4. CHAPTER FOURMost commercial experimental transmissions in wireless telegraphy before World War I were carried out on the "long" wavelengths, though they were not called that at the time. Tr...
3. CHAPTER THREEFrom the turn of the century enthusiastic young men who built their own items of electrical and wireless apparatus were known as "Wireless Experimenters". Many of them were late...