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  1. Re:So...what so bad about it? by penguin7of9 · · Score: 2 · on American Science: Addicted to Pentagon Cash?

    TV, radio, even the internet were all initialy military projects.

    Nonsense. Radio was invented by Marconi, and it was financed by the British Post (here). You can read about the development of television here, in which the military is conspicuous by its absence.

    There is nothing "bad", "evil" or "immoral" about it. In the end it's technology and the military power that came with it which allows this country to exist as it does today. How you see that, good/bad is your own opionion.

    Well, which is it? Is it up to people themselves to decide whether that's bad, or do you categorically insist that "there is nothing 'bad' [...] about it"?

    And even if one were to view the US as an unequivocally good force in the world (a view even most thinking Americans would probably not subscribe to), that doesn't mean that all its military campaigns were "good". To many people, the end does not justify the means.

  2. The actual celebration is in Newfoundland, Canada by Christopher+Whitt · · Score: 5, Informative · on 100 Years Since The First Transatlantic Broadcast
    I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the commemoration of Dec 12 1901 is an annual event here.

    The provincial government has an official site for the 100th celebrations. The local section of the IEEE is also involved in organizing the celebrations.

    Here are some more websites relating to the celebrations:


    By the way, despite being way out in the Atlantic ocean, Newfoundland is a beautiful province and a wonderful place to get away if you like the outdoors, hiking, game hunting, sport fishing, whale-watching, and lots of other things.
  3. US or Canada? by Myriad · · Score: 3, Informative · on 100 Years Since The First Transatlantic Broadcast
    This is interesting... according to the Cape Cod link this U.S. site was the location of the first successful transatlantic radio communication.

    Then it goes on to say: "the Marconi operation at this location was initiated by the young inventor in 1901. However, in December of that year, due to a number of setbacks, he had to use temporary facilities on St. John's, Newfoundland to prove his theory--wireless could cross the Atlantic!"

    Doesn't that present a complete turn around from their previous statement?

    In any event, the reenactment link has it correct with: "December 12, 2001 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Trans-Atlantic radio transmission. That signal was transmitted across the Atlantic from Poldhu, Cornwall England to St John's, Newfoundland."

    That would be St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

  4. Marconi communicated with EM pulses a century ago by Kaz+Kylheku · · Score: 2 · on A Wireless Revolution From The Garage

    See, for instance, http://www.alpcom.it/hamradio/marconi.html.

  5. Many fathers for a single child by subbiecho · · Score: 3 · on 100 Years of Radio

    Heinrich Hertz: Hertz lived from 1857 to 1894 and was the first to demonstrate experimentally the production and detection of Maxwell's waves. This discovery of course lead directly to radio. [more..]

    Guglielmo Marconi: The Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, repeated Hertz's experiments and eventually succeeded in getting secondary sparks over a distance of 30 feet (nine meters). [more..]

    Nikola Tesla: Inventions related to radio ( the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla) X-rays, the vacuum tube amplifier. [more..]

    Lee De Forest: American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. [more..]

    Ernst F. W. Alexanderson: The engineer whose high-frequency alternator gave America its start in the field of radio communication. [more..]

    It seems we can't truly give credit to any ONE inventor. For without all of the above, and countless others, I'm sure, radio and many other innovations would not be where they currently are. Hope these links help.