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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 wire elevated in the air, 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. 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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| 22:03, 14 January 2017 |  | 476 × 382 (49 KB) | Chetvorno | User created page with UploadWizard |
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