After graduating from Yale in 1810, Samuel Morse wished to pursue a career as a painter, despite his father’s dissent. He studied art in England, and upon his return to America in 1815, set up a studio in Boston. It was shortly after, in 1818, that he married Lucretia Walker. In February 1825, after giving birth to their third child, Lucretia died. The next year Morse’s father died, and his mother passed away three years later. Deep in grief, in 1829 Morse traveled to Europe. While returning home, in 1832, he came across the inventor Charles Thomas Jackson, and the two discussed at length about how an electronic impulse could be carried along a wire for long distances.
After studying the work of American physicist Joseph Henry, Samuel Morse …show more content…
Though not a scientist, Marconi recognized the value of wireless technology and was adept in putting the right people together to invest in it. Marconi founded the London-based Marconi Telegraph Company in 1899. On December 12, 1901, the first wireless message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean, from Cornwall, England, to a military base in Newfoundland. His experiment was noteworthy, as it dispelled the dominant belief of the Earth's curvature affecting transmission. For his efforts with wireless communication, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun in 1909. Not long after, Marconi's wireless system was utilized by the crew of the RMS Titanic to call for assistance. In addition to his innovative research in wireless communication, Marconi was influential in establishing the British Broadcasting Company, formed in 1922. He also participated in the development of radar.
In 1938, in response to a question posed to him about radio transmissions, Albert Einstein had supposedly answered thusly: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." While the legitimacy of this quote is disputed, it explains the …show more content…
We became a little less isolated from the rest of the world and began to feel more connected. Events happening overseas would be more like history lessons to us by the time we were able to attain the knowledge. Even then, the accuracy would have dwindled and detail lost to time. Being able to reach out across mountains, oceans, and continents had given us the opportunity to broaden our horizons when it came to the sharing of information and the ability to keep in touch with friends, colleagues, and loved
After studying the work of American physicist Joseph Henry, Samuel Morse …show more content…
Though not a scientist, Marconi recognized the value of wireless technology and was adept in putting the right people together to invest in it. Marconi founded the London-based Marconi Telegraph Company in 1899. On December 12, 1901, the first wireless message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean, from Cornwall, England, to a military base in Newfoundland. His experiment was noteworthy, as it dispelled the dominant belief of the Earth's curvature affecting transmission. For his efforts with wireless communication, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun in 1909. Not long after, Marconi's wireless system was utilized by the crew of the RMS Titanic to call for assistance. In addition to his innovative research in wireless communication, Marconi was influential in establishing the British Broadcasting Company, formed in 1922. He also participated in the development of radar.
In 1938, in response to a question posed to him about radio transmissions, Albert Einstein had supposedly answered thusly: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." While the legitimacy of this quote is disputed, it explains the …show more content…
We became a little less isolated from the rest of the world and began to feel more connected. Events happening overseas would be more like history lessons to us by the time we were able to attain the knowledge. Even then, the accuracy would have dwindled and detail lost to time. Being able to reach out across mountains, oceans, and continents had given us the opportunity to broaden our horizons when it came to the sharing of information and the ability to keep in touch with friends, colleagues, and loved