File:Small spark gap transmitter.jpg
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English: Photo of a small spark-gap transmitter, an early type of radio transmitter used during the wireless telegraphy era before 1920. This example is a small demonstration unit from a 1909 book on radio. The source text says that in a practical transmitter the small inductor (coil) shown would be replaced by a larger coil. |
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| Source | Downloaded 2010-03-02 from Walter Wentworth Massie and Charles Reginald Underhill (1909) Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, Popularly Explained, D. Van Nostrand, New York, p.19, fig.7 on Google Books |
| Author | Charles Reginald Underhill |
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Public domain in USA - published prior to 1923 in USA |
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| current | 00:48, 3 March 2010 | | 788 × 676 (91 KB) | Chetvorno | {{Information |Description=Photo of a small spark-gap transmitter. |Source=Downloaded 2010-03-02 from [http://books.google.com/books?id=2MA3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 Walter Wentworth Massie and Charles Reginald Underhill (1909) ''Wireless Telegraphy and Telep |
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