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Guglielmo Marconi's wireless transmitting station at Poldhu, Cornwall, UK in 1900
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English: Guglielmo Marconi's experimental radiotelegraphy transmitting station, Poldhu, Cornwall, UK in 1900. Marconi was the first person to develop practical radio communication systems. He discovered that the range of transmission could be greatly extended by replacing the dipole antennas used by Heinrich Hertz with a monopole antenna consisting of a metal plate elevated in the air, connected to one output terminal of the transmitter, with the other side of the transmitter connected to the Earth. This photo shows one of his early monopole antennas, consisting of a metal plate suspended by a wooden arm with a wire running down to his transmitter in the building. Later he found the plate was unnecessary and an elevated wire antenna worked just as well. The word antenna which in Italian means "tentpole" originated from Marconi.
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| Source | Retrieved January 14, 2017 from John Ambrose Fleming (1910) The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony, 2nd Ed., Longmans Green and Co., London, p. 543, fig. 15 on Google Books |
| Author | John Ambrose Fleming |
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