BCA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motion Picture Patents Company, Federal Communications Commission, Digital Audio Broadcasting
2 Apr 2017
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This affected both military and private enterprise: needed telegraph without the wires. England, then opened a branch in the u. s. in 1899. Alexander popov: professor of physics in russia, his work was very similar to marconi"s but he was an academic, and marconi got the patent first. Nikola tesla, who"s the daddy of radio: nikola tesla was a serbian-croatian inventor who immigrated to the u. s. in 1884, he invented a wireless system in 1891 and demonstrated it 2 yrs. Louis: in 1943, the u. s. supreme court overturned marconi"s wireless patent and deemed tesla the inventor of radio. Fm radio: reginald fessenden, a canadian engineer and chief chemist for thomas edison is credited with the first voice broadcast on christmas eve, 1906. Wireless ship act of 1910: required us. seagoing ships carrying more than 50 passengers and traveling more than 200 miles off the coast to be equipped with wireless equipment with a.
