Talk:Wireless telegraphy
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what are the effects of telegraphy on society???
Hertz was not early 1800s: should this be someone else, or is it just a too-loose use of 'early', i.e. Hertz was earlier than Tesla?
Most webpages I found about Lindsay were just proud claims made for a local man without any support. The one I added tends to debunk Lindsay's electric light work as likely repeating dead-end efforts others made 25 years earlier, and has references. Yes, a wire glows when you pass a lot of amperage through it . Volta demonstrated that around 1800. If you crank up the amperage to get a bright light, it burns out in a few minutes. I have not yet found a webpage which does a careful analysis of his wireless work, but at this point it sounds like a case of boosterism which needs some supporting documentation. This is not to say he was not exceptionally intelligent and creative to have been experimenting with electricity at all in the 1830's.Edison 05:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
This page "An Introduction to the Mysteries of Ground Radio" by Gerry Vassilatos http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/ground-myst.htm has alot of people that should be included here. I don't care about the mystic or occultic knowledge it mentions, but the people are real and their activities are true. BTW, somneone might want to put the Beverage patent @ that page in Beverage wikipage too. 204.56.7.1 17:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
This article might be better if it was recast as a subset of the Telegraphy article. The subject of this article is mainly the early technologies of radio telegraphy, not the its applications or modern history, for example. Albany45 15:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Remove expert needed banner?
Being knowledgeable in the subject, I plan to remove the 'expert needed' banner. I think the article is better than a start article and would invite anyone to provide criticism of why it is deficient or suggestions on what is expected of this article. In my opinion, signaling through dirt and signaling through water were not mainstream topics of wireless telegraphy, they were almost irrelevant to wireless telegraphy. The mainstream was electromagnetic wave signaling, the birth of radio, and with it, the birth of electronics. It is not clear we can get into that very deeply because it is so well covered in other articles. Maybe some expect too much of this subject? Comments? John (talk) 04:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ferdinand Braun
Spider90us (talk) 00:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)Shouldn't anyone mention anything about Braun's contribution to wireless telegraphy
- I agree that Karl Ferdinand Braun's invention of the "cat's whisker" point contact diode was very important in the early progress of wireless telegraphy, and even worked as a detector for early voice transmission. The Wikipedia article has some references you might use to add an appropriate mention of Braun in this article. Fortunately, Wikipedia is the "encyclopedia anyone can edit," so feel free to add something about Braun. Edison (talk) 00:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
