DocumentCode
1446655
Title
Charles K. Kao and other telecommunication pioneers
Author
Griffiths, Hugh ; Tong, Kin-Fai ; Yang, Yi
Volume
48
Issue
3
fYear
2010
fDate
3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract
On 12 December 1901, the first transatlantic radio communication was made by Guglielmo Marconi from the Poldhu Wireless Station (the transmitter was designed by his scientific advisor, Professor Sir John Ambrose Fleming, also the inventor of the thermionic [or Fleming] Valve in 1904) in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to a temporary receiving station on Signal Hill, St. John¿s, Newfoundland, Canada. Several years later, Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics ´in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.´
Keywords
Electromagnetic waveguides; Glass; History; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Physics; Silicon compounds; Telegraphy; Telephony;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0163-6804
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCOM.2010.5434374
Filename
5434374
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