Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reginald Fessenden, Radio Wave, Atlantic Ocean

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

Document Summary

Uni-directional: central transmitter to passive receivers, (cid:862)broad(cid:272)asti(cid:374)g(cid:863) Radio will be government regulated, far more so than any other communication device: the government wanted them to occupy a public mission. Radio waves: electro-magnetic energy, radiating in waves no wire, it radiates waves from the atmosphere spread in concentric circles in the speed of light. Heinrich hertz (1888: lab experiments with radio waves (cid:862)telegraph (cid:449)ithout (cid:449)ires(cid:863) (cid:894)hertzia(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:448)es(cid:895) Envisioned it with what the telegraph was already doing. Built an apparatus that would transmit and receive these electrical magnetic waves. Conceived of a short message, one-to-one telegraph without the wires. The main place a telegraph could not go, was the ocean. Facilitate a communication from ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore. Marconi wireless telegraph and signal co. his company: december 1901 we(cid:374)t to t. Mar(cid:272)o(cid:374)i(cid:859)s te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) (cid:271)ega(cid:374) (cid:448)er(cid:455) su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful i(cid:374) selli(cid:374)g radio(cid:859)s to shippi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)ies. Very influenced by bell a(cid:449) the first telepho(cid:374)e at o(cid:374)e of his (cid:862)le(cid:272)tures(cid:863)