{"title":"Marconi in Switzerland True story or fairy tale ?","authors":"F. Gardiol, Y. Fournier","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668706","url":null,"abstract":"According to the reminiscences of a senior citizen, at some time during the summer of 1895 Marconi carried out original wireless transmission experiments near the village of Salvan in Switzerland. The IEEE acknowledged this event and inaugurated a Historical Milestone on September 22, 2003. And now the ITU recognized the site of Salvan ldquofor its invaluable contribution to the Telecommunication Heritage.rdquo But Marconi apparently never mentioned the name of Salvan, and this historical episode is not recorded in the archives of the Marconi Museum in Pontecchio. Why?","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122746335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The birthplace of the first wireless communications between Japan and Europe —YOSAMI VLF Radio Station—","authors":"E. Matsumoto, K. Tanaka, S. Ishida","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668726","url":null,"abstract":"In 1929 the big Radio Station using very low frequency was built at YOSAMI near NAGOYA, Japan. It was used as the trade and governmental communication station between Japan and European countries. The transmitters were made in Germany, with High Frequency Alternators. The stationpsilas destinations were Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Geneva and Rome directly. During the Second WW, it was converted to the communication system with submarines by Japanese navy and by US navy after the war. After 70 years operation, the VLF station and the big antenna towers were dismantled, however, one of the transmitters is kept in the Memorial Museum in the Floral Garden, KARIYA city as the Industrial Heritage.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128614995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tesla’s multi-frequency wireless radio controlled vessel","authors":"A. Marinčić, D. Budimir","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668708","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the Teslapsilas contribution to dual-band wireless radio controlled vessel is presented. The intention of this paper is to describe multi-frequency remote controlled vessel using two transmitters and which operate a distant receiver which comprises two or more circuits, each of which is tuned to respond exclusively to the signals of one frequency and so arranged that the operation of the receiver is dependent upon their conjoint or resultant action.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126972644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fracarro, from the disk of Nipkow to the digital convergence","authors":"W. Barbirato, L. Morassutto, M. Temporelli","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668722","url":null,"abstract":"The dream of transmitting images, in addition to sounds, has been considered and studied since the distant 1880, and the best results were obtained in 1884 by a disk with a spiral pattern of holes punched through it. This was invented by a German physicist of Russian origins, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, on 24th December 1883.When this disk, equipped with lenses in each hole, was spun rapidly, it decomposed the image into lines, starting from the most external hole (which read the upper line) to the most internal one, which identified the lower line. Therefore, the image was transformed into a series of luminous impulses that, striking a battery of photocells, turned themselves into electrical impulses: the principle of mechanical television was created.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132694061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disseminating electronics: Bell Telephone and the emergence of electronic computing expertise in post-war Belgium, c1945–c1960","authors":"S. Mols, M. d'Udekem-Gevers","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668723","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the role of Bell Telephone Mfg Co, hereafter dasiaBTMCpsila, a major European provider of electronics and switch technology from the 1910s onwards, in the emergence of electronic computing expertise in post-war Belgium. In 1951, BTMC entered into collaboration with two national research funding bodies, the FNRS and the IRSIA, towards the construction of a Belgian electronic computer, the Machine mathematique IRSIA-FNRS. We explore the ways in which the running of, and people involved in this project, among others Vitold Belevitch (1921-1999), led to the dissemination and appropriation of Anglo-Saxon electronic computing know-how in Belgium.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133601634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wired radio broadcasting technology in Britain: The early years","authors":"M. Bolton","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668715","url":null,"abstract":"The redistribution of public radio broadcasts through private cable networks was an important business in Britain from the late 1920s until after the Second World War. This paper presents some of the key stages in the development and use of this technology in Britain during this period. The contribution of P.P.Eckersley, former chief engineer of the BBC and one of the founders of the rediffusion company is highlighted.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132571398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walsh functions in secure coding, signal processing and cellular radio communication: Historical development during the years 1960– 1990","authors":"F. Pichler","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668737","url":null,"abstract":"Walsh functions have been introduced in mathematics in 1923 by Joseph L. Walsh. They constitute a complete set of orthogonal functions which assume only the values +1 and -1. By this property and by their algebraic properties as character functions of the dyadic group of binary numbers they became by the development of digital technology important mathematical means for the design and analysis in telecommunication systems. The paper gives an overview on important historical steps in Walsh functions applications in (1) in cryptography to arrange secure encoding of fast digital data streams ( work of Jim Massey and others), (2) (2) to the development of the Fast Walsh Fourier Transform algorithm (FWFT) which compares in its use to the classical FFT algorithm as used in 1D and 2D signal processing ( contribution of J.E.Welchel in 1968) and (3) (3) the use of Walsh functions in long distance space communication and for carrier multiplexing of digital channels in cellular radio telecommunication ( work Golomb, Viterbi, Harmuth and others).","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116440306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WW2 British Army battlefield wireless communications equipment","authors":"A. Davies","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668720","url":null,"abstract":"Features of wireless communications equipment used by the British Army during and shortly after World War Two are described, within the context of advances in technology and their influence on repair and maintenance methods.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120892406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From large technical systems to technological complexes","authors":"L. Thue","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668714","url":null,"abstract":"The paper locate telecommunications in what has emerged as the new paradigmatic technology of the third industrial revolution, the technological complexes. Modern telecommunications has a long history in its own right - evolving from the telegraph to contemporary multimedia services. A parallel process has been the integration of telecommunications with other infrastructures. Today, as part of the ICT-cluster, telecom is tightly integrated with other critical infrastructures. These systems of systems are best conceptualized as technological complexes.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116385874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Establishing standards for measuring the performance of radio receivers","authors":"F. Nebeker","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668717","url":null,"abstract":"Regularly scheduled radio broadcasting began in the United States in 1920, and just ten years later the majority of U.S. homes contained a radio. Radio engineering made great advances in this decade, particularly in the design of radio receivers. The engineering profession, notably the Institute of Radio Engineers, a predecessor society of the IEEE, made a vital contribution by devising and standardizing means of measuring the performance of radio receivers. The IRE standards, published in 1928, defined three fundamental properties of receivers-sensitivity, selectivity, and fidelity-and specified procedures for measuring them. These standards made it easier for engineers to design a system as a whole and to optimize overall performance while keeping the projected cost of a receiver at a particular level; they served the engineering community by making possible unambiguous communication; they were valuable to manufacturers for quality control; and they made it easier for purchasers to evaluate and compare radios.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128904956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}