Sunday, June 17, 2012

two steps

May 7, 1895, St-Petersburg. On this day, Popov performed a public demonstration of transmission and reception of radio waves used for communication at the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, using his coherer. Popov's early experiments were transmissions of only 550 m. Popov was the first to develop a practical communication system

The "Flyer" lifted from level ground to the north of Big Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, at 10:35 a.m., on December 17, 1903. Orville Wright piloted the plane which weighed six hundred and five pounds. The first heavier-than-air, controlled, powered and sustained flight traveled one hundred twenty feet in twelve seconds

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