100th Anniversary of Wireless

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_1512003_3.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.technologyreview.com/off...1_1512003_3.asp</a><br /><br /></div>Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the first long-distance wireless transmission (over the Atlantic), between King Edward VII and Theodore Roosevelt, via Marconi's technology.<br /><br />"Can you imagine a world without television and radio? Not to mention cellphones, cordless phones, radar, microwave ovens, remote-control cars, and baby monitors?<br /><br />All these devices rely on the transmission of radio signals through the air. And it was 100 years ago this Saturday that a young Italian inventor showed the globe-girdling potential of his wireless telegraph, or radio transmitter."<br /><br />You know, I <i>can't</i> imagine a world without any of these anymore.

[Pony99CA]

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the first long-distance wireless transmission (over the Atlantic), between King Edward VII and Thomas Roosevelt, via Marconi's technology.
Thomas Roosevelt? Who's that? (Maybe you meant Teddy Roosevelt? :-))

Anyway, here's to wireless! :beer:

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Thomas Roosevelt? Who's that? (Maybe you meant Teddy Roosevelt? :-))
Uhh... it must have corrupted over my wireless connection. Damn that Marconi! ;)

(Sorry about that. :oops:)

--janak

[PlayAgain?]

"Can you imagine a world without television and radio? Not to mention cellphones, cordless phones, radar, microwave ovens, remote-control cars, and baby monitors?


Sometimes..... just sometimes...... I find the thought of this kind of world quite appealing.

[Greybard]

Except for ripping off Tesla with Edison's help, what did he do again? :?

[dean_shan]

"Can you imagine a world without television and radio? Not to mention cellphones, cordless phones, radar, microwave ovens, remote-control cars, and baby monitors?

I can imagine a world like that, it's called camping :wink:.

[jlp]

I wouldn't quite call my microwave oven wireless technology :wink:

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

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