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One of the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radio_receiver" class="extiw" title="en:radio receiver">radio receivers</a>, a simple device that rang a bell when a radio signal was received, built by Russian scientist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov" class="extiw" title="en:Alexander Stepanovich Popov">Alexander Stepanovich Popov</a> in 1895. Built as a lightning detector, to warn of thunderstorms by registering the radio pulses of lightning strikes, Popov demonstrated it before the Russian Physical-Chemical Society in St. Petersburg on 7 May 1895, receiving signals from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spark_gap_transmitter" class="extiw" title="en:spark gap transmitter">spark-gap radio transmitter</a>. In Eastern Europe Popov is regarded as the first person to communicate by radio, and May 7 is celebrated as "Radio Day".
It used a primitive radio wave detector called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coherer" class="extiw" title="en:coherer">coherer</a>, invented in 1890 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Branly" class="extiw" title="en:Edouard Branly">Edouard Branly</a> consisting of a glass tube with metal filings between two electrodes. The coherer was connected to a wire antenna, and also a circuit with a battery (left) and a relay (cylinder, center). When a radio signal from the antenna arrived at the coherer's electrodes, the metal filings became conductive. The current from the battery flowed through the coherer and energized the relay, closing its contacts, and applying the current from the battery to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electromagnet" class="extiw" title="en:electromagnet">electromagnet</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electric_bell" class="extiw" title="en:electric bell">electric bell</a> (right) which pulled its arm over to give the bell a tap. To restore the coherer to its receptive state, the filings needed to be disturbed by tapping it, so when the bell arm sprang back it tapped the coherer, automatically resetting it.
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| current | 10:29, 6 January 2017 | | 285 × 196 (4 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | One of the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radio_receiver" class="extiw" title="en:radio receiver">radio receivers</a>, a simple device that rang a bell when a radio signal was received, built by Russian scientist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov" class="extiw" title="en:Alexander Stepanovich Popov">Alexander Stepanovich Popov</a> in 1895. Built as a lightning detector, to warn of thunderstorms by registering the radio pulses of lightning strikes, Popov demonstrated it before the Russian Physical-Chemical Society in St. Petersburg on 7 May 1895, receiving signals from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spark_gap_transmitter" class="extiw" title="en:spark gap transmitter">spark-gap radio transmitter</a>. In Eastern Europe Popov is regarded as the first person to communicate by radio, and May 7 is celebrated as "Radio Day".<br><br> It used a primitive radio wave detector called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coherer" class="extiw" title="en:coherer">coherer</a>, invented in 1890 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Branly" class="extiw" title="en:Edouard Branly">Edouard Branly</a> consisting of a glass tube with metal filings between two electrodes. The coherer was connected to a wire antenna, and also a circuit with a battery <i>(left)</i> and a relay <i>(cylinder, center)</i>. When a radio signal from the antenna arrived at the coherer's electrodes, the metal filings became conductive. The current from the battery flowed through the coherer and energized the relay, closing its contacts, and applying the current from the battery to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electromagnet" class="extiw" title="en:electromagnet">electromagnet</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electric_bell" class="extiw" title="en:electric bell">electric bell</a> <i>(right)</i> which pulled its arm over to give the bell a tap. To restore the coherer to its receptive state, the filings needed to be disturbed by tapping it, so when the bell arm sprang back it tapped the coherer, automatically resetting it. |
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