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  2. Michael Faraday - Wikipedia

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    Michael Faraday (/ ˈ f ær ə d eɪ,-d i /; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction , diamagnetism , and electrolysis .

  3. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Before the discovery of electromagnetic waves and the development of radio communication, there were many wireless telegraph systems proposed and tested. [4] In April 1872 William Henry Ward received U.S. patent 126,356 for a wireless telegraphy system where he theorized that convection currents in the atmosphere could carry signals like a telegraph wire. [5]

  4. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The company telephone and radio apparatus factory Ideal AG (today Blaupunkt) provides a car radio using Bowden cables to control it from the steering column. 1933 After the Nazi seizure of power in Germany is broadcasting finally a political tool. Systematic censorship is to prevent opposition and spread the "Aryan culture".

  5. I Just Called to Say I Love You - Wikipedia

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    The song's lyrics have Wonder surprising someone in his life with an unexpected telephone call. Throughout the song, Wonder lists various events in a yearly calendar that might prompt someone to call a loved one. Yet he explains no special annual event such as New Year's Day or Halloween spurred the call. He simply wants to say that he loves ...

  6. Hello Central, Give Me Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Postcards were printed after the song's publication with the "kind permission" of Harris showing young girls using the telephone to call their dead mothers. [3] The song's popularity led to several "telephone songs" in the following years, [4] and a one-reel film of the same title was released in 1913. It has been estimated that the sheet music ...

  7. Telephone Line (song) - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, the song reached number 1 in New Zealand and Canada. "Telephone Line" and Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man" were back-to-back on Hot 100's top 40 for two non-consecutive weeks in the summer of 1977. [10] As was the norm, many ELO singles were issued in different colours, but the US version of the single was the only green single ELO issued.

  8. Action at a distance - Wikipedia

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    Glazed frame, containing "Delineation of Lines of Magnetic Force by Iron filings" prepared by Michael Faraday. Michael Faraday was the first who suggested that action at a distance was inadequate as an account of electric and magnetic forces, even in the form of a (mathematical) potential field.

  9. Electricity - Wikipedia

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    The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a potential difference of one volt when it stores a charge of one coulomb. A capacitor connected to a voltage supply initially causes a current as it accumulates charge; this current will however decay in time as ...