Now we come to what I consider the “fun” part of this article: Granville Woods’ inventions and patents. There are some who say that the number of patents Woods obtained is at least 60, may be even ...
Last week I began this discussion of Civil War infrastructure in Arkansas with a look at roads, railroads, bridges, and manufacturing of war material. The story continues with a look at telegraphy, ...
Appendices (p. [655]-685): I. Wireless telegraphy act of 1904. II. Bibliography of electric wave telegraphy. III. British patent specifications for improvements in electric wave telegraphy between ...
In the early 19th century, trans-Atlantic diplomacy, however urgent, was constrained by one thing: the speed of sailing ships. The average passage took at least a month. This could lead to vexing ...
Father wouldn`t give me permission to go into the services but my mother, who was of an understanding disposition, signed the form for the Wrens without his knowing; he gave in gracefully when my ...
A VERY large number of books on radio telegraphy and radio telephony have recently been published. Many are of little use to the general scientific reader because they are too elementary; others fail ...
WHY Mr. Beechy should wish to depart from ordinary usage and call his book electro-telegraphy rather than electric telegraphy, we have no idea. The assumption of an eccentric title for a scientific ...
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