Old Marconi Patent Inspires Tiny New Gigahertz Antenna

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 20, 2015 @06:43AM from the getting-small dept.

agent elevator writes Gehan Amaratunga and a group of engineers in England noted that the Guglielmo Marconi's famous British patent application from 1900 had an interesting and little noticed detail. It depicted a transmitter linked to an antenna connected to a coil, which had one end dangling while the RF signal was fed to the middle of the coil. That detail inspired them to develop a way to reduce the size of a GHz antenna without significant transmission loss by using dielectrics as the radio wave emitting material instead of conductors.

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I read that as Macaroni patent by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-20 07:20 · Score: 1, Interesting

I was intrigued. But no, Marconi... that... that makes more sense.
have to admit... by hitmark · 2015-04-20 07:21 · Score: 3, Interesting

I read the title as "old macaroni patent" on first glance.

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