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1901
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Guglielmo Marconi sends
first transatlantic
wireless signals, 12 December.
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1902
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Poulsen-Arc
Radio Transmitter invented.
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1903
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AIEE Committee on Telegraphy
and Telephony formed.
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1904
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John Ambrose Fleming invents
the two-element "Fleming Valve".
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1905
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Marconi patents his
directive horizontal antenna.
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1906
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Dr. Lee de Forest reads a
paper before an AIEE meeting on the
Audion, first of the vacuum tubes that
would make long distance
radiotelephony possible.
Reginald Fessenden
broadcasts Christmas Carols on Christmas
Eve from Brant Rock, MA
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1907
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The world's first
transatlantic commercial wireless
services is established by
Marconi with stations at Clifden,
Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
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1908
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I am convinced that nothing
happened in communications history in 1908!
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1909
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Marconi shares the Nobel
Prize in Physics, with Karl Ferdinand
Braun for their work in the development
of wireless telegraphy.
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1910
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The first commercial radios
are sold by Lee de Forest's Radio
Telephone Company.
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References:
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Engineers & Electrons,
John D. Ryder and Donald G.
Fink, IEEE Press, 1984
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Events in Telecommunications
History, AT&T Archives,
1992
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The Story of
Telecommunications, George P.
Oslin, Mercer
University Press, 1992.
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Inventing The Internet,
Janet Abbate, The MIT Press,
1999.
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