Words and pictures about the weird and wonderful technology that changed our lives in the past. Just because it isn't Web 3.14 doesn't mean that it wasn't neat, fabulous, and the focus of a million technogeek fankids.
Monday, October 22, 2007
An Early Radio Transmitter
From Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Radio Telephony" (Wireless Press, 1918). The Alexanderson Alternator was an alternative to the spark gap for transmitters. It had a rotating disk with many individual windings such that the edge of the disk could cut magnetic flux lines at a relatively high rate ... perhaps even 100 KHz! These were popular for a while, but eventually transmitting tubes replaced them for continuous signal generation at high power.
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