Title :
Technological archaeology: Technical description of the Gauss-Weber telegraph
Author :
Fernando Martín-Rodríguez;Gonzalo Barrio García;María Álvarez Lires
Author_Institution :
Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Vigo, ETSET, Ciudad Universitaria S/N, 36310 (Pontevedra), Spain
Abstract :
This communication wants to describe the very beginning of electrical communications: the telegraph system implemented by two German scientists in 1832. These two scientists are Carl Friedich Gauss and Wilhem Weber. We will describe the information we gathered about this system and how we managed to obtain a detailed electrical description.
Keywords :
"Instruments","Receivers"
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Conference (HISTELCON), 2010 Second IEEE Region 8 Conference on the History of
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7450-9
DOI :
10.1109/HISTELCON.2010.5735309
