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After radio communication was developed Lodge's lecture would become the focus of priority disputes over who invented wireless telegraphy (radio). His early demonstration and later development of radio tuning (his 1898 Syntonic tuning patent) would lead to patent disputes with the Marconi Company. When Lodge's syntonic patent was extended in ...
Westinghouse buys DeForest's and Armstrong's patent. 1920s: Radio was first used to transmit pictures visible as television. 1926: Official Egyptian decree to regulate radio transmission stations and radio receivers. [40] Early 1930s: Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they ...
The invention of the superheterodyne receiver solved this problem, and the first radios with a heterodyne radio receiver went for sale in 1924. But it was costly, and the technology was shelved while waiting for the technology to mature, and in 1929 the Radiola 66 and Radiola 67 went for sale.
Although the obvious candidate was the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), on October 5, 1920, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company took out an option for $335,000 for the commercial rights for both the regenerative and superheterodyne patents, with an additional $200,000 to be paid if Armstrong prevailed in the regenerative patent ...
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 (seven of them after his death). Fessenden pioneered developments in radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation (AM ...
Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry (Macmillan, 1949; reprinted by Arno Press, 1971) McCourt, Tom. Conflicting Communication Interests in America: The Case of National Public Radio (Praeger, 1999) online; Ray, William B. FCC: The Ups and Downs of Radio-TV Regulation (Iowa State University Press, 1990) Rosen, Philip T.
A patent application for the same was filed on December 12, 1932, granted on March 3, 1936, and published on April 3, 1936, as a patent. [248] 1932 Radio telescope. Full-size replica of Jansky's directional radio antenna, serendipitously the first radio telescope. A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy ...
A family listening to a crystal radio in the 1920s Greenleaf Whittier Pickard's US Patent 836,531 "Means for receiving intelligence communicated by electric waves" diagram US Bureau of Standards 1922 Circular 120 "A simple homemade radio receiving outfit" taught Americans how to build a crystal radio. [25] Crystal radio was invented by a long ...