1. FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19

   …Electric clocks 1841 == Bain had already invented the electric clock. Using this knowledge he felt he could improve [[Telegraph|telegraphy]] by transmitting copies of actual written documents. Bain used a clock to synchronize the movement of two p…
   …itle="FAX Machine" width="450" }} == Improvements == Frederick Bakewell went on to improve the concept with his "Image Telegraph" which he demonstrated at the 1851 World's Fair in London. Many improvements came along and eventually the FAX machin…

2. Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45

   …hat both English and French pilots were familiar with Mockford suggested **Mayday**. In 1924, the **Book of Wireless Telegraphy** identified **‘Mayday’** as the international distress call. {{Image url="FrederickMockfordGrave.jpg" class="le…

3. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   …house, Cambridge. After Cambridge he worked for the Radio Research company until 1935 and then for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company from 1935 until 1951. {{Image url="PrototypeHovercraft.jpg" class="left" title="Cockerell Prototype Hovercraf…

4. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07

   … Bell's inventions. One day while they were working Bell accidently heard the sound of a plucked reed * coming over the telegraph wire. Watson had been tuning the metal reeds in the next room. Bell drew up a plan for the telephone and they continued…

5. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52

   …as born in Barnwood, [[Gloucestershire]], he was a curious fifteen-year old. His uncle from London took him to view the telegraph in Mr Ronalds' garden. Charles Wheatstone was one of the outstanding academics of the 19th Century. He worked in his fa…
   …ping musical instruments. His experiments with sound led him to coin the terms 'telephone' and 'microphone'. == First Telegraph 1837 == {{Image url="CookeWheatstoneTelegraph.jpg" class="left" title="Cooke Wheatstone Telegraph" width="400" }}::cr::…
   … In May 1837 the first commercial electrical telegraph, the **Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph**, was co-developed and patented by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. It was beautifully simple using el…
   …one to be trained in understanding codes, unlike the Morse system. === Morse === On learning of this first electrical telegraph success from the newspapers in New York, S F B Morse, a painter and electrical experimenter, sailed to Liverpool in Ma…

6. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24

   …title="Marconi Radio" class="right" width="250" }} **Guglielmo Marconi** began pursuing the idea of building a wireless telegraphy system based on Hertzian waves (radio). Marconi gained a patent on the system in 1896. Marconi was born in Bologna on…
   … {{Image url="MarconiFactory.jpg" title="Marconi Factory" class="right" width="250" }} Marconi established The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company which became the Marconi Company. On 17 December 1902, a transmission from the Marconi station in Gla…

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