TODAY IN THE PAST: MAY 30, 1902 PHILADELPHIA: Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his machine for transmitting sound without the aid of wires. Stubblefield was a melon farmer and self-educated inventor who came from Kentucky with a predictably ridiculous mustache and an amazing machine: two metal stakes driven into the soft, resonant Philadelphian soil. At one end, he instructed his son Bernard to play the harmonica into a transmitter attached to the first stake. According to Stubblefield, the music was carried along by the electromagnetic waves of the earth itself, finally terminating with reported uncanny clarity at a receiver attached to the other stake, SEVERAL FEET AWAY. _Now, some maintain that this was technically not radio transmission, but induction transmission. Others claim it was not even induction transmission but actually just hearing the sound. But I say: It is a man forcing his son to play harmonica into the earth in front of famous scientists, and that, frankly, is enough. —More Information Than You Require (2008) \|/ Reposted by: -H- Team /|\ Hodgmania
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:00:01 +0000
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