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    A spark-gap transmitter is an obsolete type of radio transmitter which generates radio waves by means of an electric spark. Spark-gap transmitters were...
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    unmodulated spark-gap transmitter. Many radio spark gaps include cooling devices, such as the rotary gap and heat sinks, since the spark gap becomes quite...
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    in 1895–1897 High power spark gap radiotelegraphy transmitter in Australia around 1910. 1 MW US Navy Poulsen arc transmitter which generated continuous...
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    ignition device from sparking after the flame is lit or restart the flame if it goes out. A spark-gap transmitter uses an electric spark gap to generate radio...
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  • side of the spark gap was directly connected to the antenna. Receivers with thermionic valves became commonplace before spark-gap transmitters were replaced...
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    conclusion that he could develop a far more efficient system than the spark-gap transmitter and coherer-receiver combination which had been created by Oliver...
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    radio transmitter. Trial service was initiated on 9 August 1906, and operational service began on 16 August 1906 using a 25 kW spark gap transmitter designed...
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  • Company in 1904 for use in wireless telegraphy, at that time via spark-gap transmitters, and was adopted internationally at the London 1912 International...
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    conclusion that he could develop a far more efficient system than the spark-gap transmitter and coherer receiver combination. To this end he worked on developing...
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  • method of radio transmission produced by the first radio transmitters (spark gap transmitters) which consisted of a series of damped radio waves. Information...
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  • Pulse-position modulation (PPM) Wi-Fi Direct Energy harvesting Spark-gap transmitter WiB (digital terrestrial television) USC Viterbi School of Engineering...
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    Although some applications had used earlier technologies such as the spark gap transmitter and crystal detector for radio or mechanical and electromechanical...
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  • launch system Spark-gap transmitter, a technology used to generate radio waves Spark or Sinthusa, a genus of butterfly Kicksled or spark, a small sled...
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  • process of stopping an electrical arc, for example in a fuse or spark-gap transmitter in an internal combustion engine, the rapid cooling of fuel inside...
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    tin-plate toy manufacturer Matsudaya Toy Co. who beginning 1957 used a spark-gap transmitter and coherer-based receiver in a range of radio-controlled (RC) toys...
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    theory, first observed radio waves he generated using a primitive spark-gap transmitter. Experiments by Hertz and physicists Jagadish Chandra Bose, Oliver...
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    used a dipole antenna consisting of two collinear one-meter wires with a spark gap between their inner ends, and zinc spheres attached to the outer ends...
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    to send audio signals by radio waves. The first radio transmitters, called spark gap transmitters, transmitted information by wireless telegraphy, using...
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    were discovered in 1887, the first generation of radio transmitters, the spark gap transmitters, produced strings of damped waves, pulses of radio waves...
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  • rudimentary radio station consisting of a coherer-based receiver and a spark-gap transmitter, also powered by batteries charged from the mill wheel. He strung...
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    While some applications had used earlier technologies such as the spark gap transmitter for radio or mechanical computers for computing, it was the invention...
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    radio transmitter is changed, the trap must be adjusted. At its base, the mast should have a lightning arrester consisting of a ball or horn spark gap between...
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  • Morse code via spark-gap transmitters. As vacuum tubes became affordable, operations shifted to more efficient manual telegraphy transmitters, referred to...
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  • early radio transmitters, called spark gap transmitters, which used an electric spark to generate radio waves. In existing transmitters the spark damped the...
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    debated in the literature. Meanwhile, Braun attempted to replace the spark-gap transmitter, which produced damped oscillations, with AC generators that generated...
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    operational atop a hill near the town of Fogo; operating with a spark-gap transmitter to establish maritime communications, the station was forced to...
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    experiment. The transmitting station in Poldhu, Cornwall used a spark-gap transmitter that could produce a signal in the medium frequency range and with...
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  • radio transmitters, used during the initial three decades of radio from 1887 to 1917, a period called the spark era, were spark gap transmitters which...
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    crystal sets received wireless telegraphy signals broadcast by spark-gap transmitters at frequencies as low as 20 kHz.: 110,268  A crystal radio can be...
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    5-kilowatt rotary spark-gap transmitter, with the wireless telegraph call sign MGY, and communication was in Morse code. This transmitter was one of the...
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