A History of Wireless Telegraphy

by Fahie, John Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781108026864
• ISBN10: 1108026869
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-19
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

John Joseph Fahie (1846-1934) was an engineer for the Electric and International Telegraph Company before being posted overseas in the Indo-European Government Telegraph Department. He was also a respected historian whose History of Wireless Telegraphy (1899) sold out two impressions in little over a year. In this second edition (1901), he traces the development of wireless communication during the nineteenth century, drawing extensively from the correspondence and technical illustrations of inventors themselves. This edition was fully updated to take account of the latest advances in radio technology, including Marconi's latest public demonstrations. As a practising telegraph engineer, Fahie was in the perfect position not only to understand the significance of these developments, but to explain them to a non-specialist audience. Contemporary reviews indicate he did this with great success. His book gives an eyewitness account of the rise of radio technology that still fascinates scholars and enthusiasts today.

Table of Contents

Preface to second edition

Preface to first edition

The Possible

Professor C. A. Steinheil, 1838

Edward Davy, 1838

Professor Morse, 1842

James Bowman Lindsay, 1843

J. W. Wilkins, 1845

Dr. O'Shaughnessy, 1849

E. and H. Highton, 1852âÇô1872

G. E. Dering, 1853

John Haworth, 1862

J. H. Mower, 1868

M. Bourbouze, 1870

Mahlon Loomis, 1872

The Practicable

Preliminary. Notice of the telephone in relation to wireless telegraphy

Professor John Trowbridge, 1880

Professor Graham Bell, 1882

Professor A. E. Dolbear, 1882

T. A. Edison, 1885

W. F. Melhuish, 1890

Charles A. Stevenson, 1892

Professor Erich Rathenau, 1894

The Practical: Systems in actual use

Sir W. H. Preece's method

Willoughby Smith's method

G. Marconi's method

The relation between electricity and light, before and after Hertz

Prof. Henry on high tension electricity being confined to the surface of conducting bodies, with special reference to the proper construction of lightning-rods. On modern views with respect to the nature of electric currents

Variations of conductivity under electrical influence

Researches of Prof. D. E. Hughes, F. R. S., in electric waves and their application to wireless telegraphy, 1879âÇô1886

Reprint of G. Marconi's patent

Index

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