Telecommunication Pioneers Day 3
Benjamin Franklin b 1747 Leydn jar was the first capacitor b 1752 discovers that electricity has a positive and a negative charge b 1752 flew a kite to demonstrate electricity and lightening related
Luigi Galvani b , Italian b 1780 noticed frog’s leg jump b effects of electrostatic stimuli applied to the muscle fiber of frogs b “animal electricity” b Inspired Volta
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta b ( ) Italian b 1775 created the electrophorus b 1800 created the voltaic pile b Volt named after him
Hans Christian Ørsted b , Danish b 1820 a magnetic needle is deflected at right angles to a wire carrying an electric current b electromagnetic induction
André Ampère b ( ), French b combined theory of magnetism and elec- tricity in early 1820's b electrical current creates magnetic fields b system to measure current flow called amperes
Georg Simon Ohm , German b describes relation- ship between current flow, voltage, and resistance b Ohm’s Law b Resistance measure
Joseph Henry ( ), American b discovered electro- magnetic induction b discovered self- inductance b Inductance measure is the Henry
Michael Faraday b ( ), British b foremost experimental scientist of his day b discovery of electro- magnetic induction b the induction of one electric current by another
James Clerk Maxwell b ( ), British b mathematical basis for electricity and electromagnetism b propagation of electromagnetic waves b light is made up of electromagnetic waves.
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz ( ), German b demonstrates the pro- duction and detection of Maxwell's waves b photoelectric effect b Frequency in Hertz
Thomas Alva Edison b ( ), American b 1887 creates the carbon microphone
Guglielmo Marconi b ( ), Italian b Father of Wireless b 1894 Began work following Hertz b 1895 short range radio b 1899 Britain to France b 1901 Britain to Canada
Nathan B. Stubblefield b ( ), US b 1892 invents “wireless telephone” b first person to transmit human voice without wires b demonstrates system officially May 30, 1902 in Philadelphia
Reginald A. Fessenden b ( ), born in Canada of US parents b designs a high- frequency alternator for continuos signal b 1906 Christmas Eve First broadcast of speech & music
Lee De Forest b ( ) US b 1906 Invents the “audion” now called a triode. Types of vacuum tube. b key component in nearly all radio, radar, TV, and computers until transistors