Adventures in CyberSound: Sparks of Genius: The Scientists and Engineers

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Sparks of Genius : The Scientists and Engineers

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Part 1 of 3: Acres, Birt to Franklin, Ben

Part 2 of 3: Galvani, Luigi to Muybridge, Eadweard

Part 3 of 3: Nipkow, Paul to Zworykin, Vladamir

Acres, Birt

Birt Acres - c.1905

Kineopticon Camera by Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres - c.1895

Ader, Clément

Alberti, Leone Battista

Leone Battista Alberti - a likeness

Alexanderson, Ernst Frederik

E. F. Alexanderson - c.1910

Alexanderson - testing his alternator - c.1917

Alexanderson's Alternator - c.1917

E F Alexanderson - c.1925

Ray D. Kell, Alexanderson's television assistant - c.1925

Alexanderson and his 'mirror drum' television system - c.1925

The Queen's Messenger - 1928

E. F. Alexanderson - c.1935

Alhazen,

Ampère, André-Marie

André-Marie Ampère - a likeness, c.1825

Anschutz, Ottomar

Appleton, Sir Edward Victor

Armat, Thomas

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Related Essays

The (Thomas) Armat Papers - Georgetown University

Armstrong, Edwin Howard

E. H. Armstrong - c.1915

E. H. Armstrong - c.1920

Armstrong with his 'portable' radio - c.1923

Superhetrodyne Wireless System - Schematic - 1923

Frequency Modulation - Diagram

Austin, Louis Winslow

Ayrton, William

Bain, Alexander

Baird, John Logie

Baird Television System - c.1924

John Logie Baird at his workbench - c.1930

MarconiPhone - Baird and EMI compatible television receiver

Related Essays

TV is Dead. Long Live TV - by Andrew Chitty

The Man Who Invented TV - by Jeremy Taylor

John Logie Baird - a biography

John Logie Baird - by Will Annett

Early / Mechanical Television Systems - by Richard Kadrey

Stereoscopic Television - by R. F. Tiltman

Baird in America - by Malcolm H. I. Baird

Invisible Light - Infra Red Television in 1926

Visioneer: John Logie Baird and Mechanical Televison - by Trevor Blake

Eye of the World - Part 1 - by Adrian R. Hills

Eye of the World - Part 2 - by Malcolm H. I. Baird

Eye of the World - Part 3 - Iain Baird interviewed by Gerald Pratley

Seeing by Wireless - by Ray Herbert

Television Choices - by Trevor Worthy

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

History Of Television Technology - by Brad Fortner - Canada

What's On TV: John Logie Baird's 'Phonovision' - by Donald Mclean

The Crystal Palace - Korkyt's Crystal Palace by Gary Hayes and Kathrin Brunnert

Bakewell, Frederick

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Émile

Becquerel, Antoine César, Alexandre Edmond and Antoine Henri

Belin, Edouard

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Bell, Alexander Graham

A. G. Bell - 1880

Bell's 'Liquid Transmitter' telephone - 1876

Bell's 'Liquid Transmitter' telephone - 1876

Using the Bell telephone of 1886

A selection of Bell's early telephone equipment - c.1876/77

Bell's 'Gallows Telephone' - 1875

Bell's 'Gallows Telephone' - Diagram - 1875

Early model Bell 'Candle Stick' telephone

Bell's commercial Magneto-Telephone - 1877

A.G. Bell - 1892

Related Essays

Bell's First Telephones

Bell's Laboratory Notebook

Bell's Laboratory Notebook for March 10th 1876

Bell's first Telephone Patent

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Alexander G. Bell's path to the invention of the telephone

Berzelius, Baron Jons Jakob

Beverage, Dr. Harold H.

Related Essays

Dr. Harold H. Beverage, Interview 1968 Abstract

Dr. Harold H. Beverage, Interview 1968

Dr. Harold H. Beverage, Interview 1992 Abstract

Dr. Harold H. Beverage, Interview 1992

Bidwell, Shelford

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Bose, Jagadis Chundeer

Bourseul, Charles

Branly, Edouard

A receiver using a Branly 'Coherer' - Schematic

Braun, Karl Ferdinand

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Brewster, Sir David

Brown, Sidney G.

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Browne, Sir Thomas

Cambell - Swinton, A. A. (Alan Archibald)

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Camras, Marvin

Carey, George R.

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Caselli, Abbe Giovanni

Related Essays

Caselli's Pantelegraph

Chappe, Claude

Clarke, Arthur C.

Claudet, Jean Francois Antoine

Conrad, Dr. Frank

KDKA's Transmitter, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., c.1922

8XK, Conrad's home transmitter, 1922

Harold W. Arlin, KDKA announcer, c.1922

KDKA's Studio, c.1923

Crookes, Sir William

Cros, Charles Émile-Hortensius

Daniell, John Frederic

Biography - incl. a major essay by Dean P. Currier

Daniell with Michael Faraday

Daniell with Michael Faraday - alternate image

Davy, Sir Humphry

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Sir Humphry Davy

da Vinci, Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci, c.1515

de Bernouchi,

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

de Coulombe, Charles Augustin

de Martinville, Édouard-Léon Scott

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

The Phonautograph

The Phonautograph (alternate image)

De Forest, Dr. Lee

Lee De Forest - c.1900

De Forest's first Triode or 'Audion' - 1906

The 'Audion', Front View - 1906

The 'Audion', Front View, Detail - 1906

The Audion - Colour - 1906

The 'Audion' - Schematic

The 'Audion' in operation - Diagram

Lee De Forest - 1907

Lee De Forest 'On the Air' - 1907

The first advertisement for the Audion - 1916

Lee De Forest with his first Audion valve of 1906 - c.1933

Lee De Forest - c.1940

Lee De Forest - c.1946

Demenÿ, George

George Demenÿ, c.1900

Dickson, W. K. Laurie

A 'Mutoscope' advertisement, c. 1899

Donisthorpe, Wordsworth

Du Hauron, Louis Ducas

Duddell, William du Bois

Dunwoody, H. H. C. (Henry Harrison Chase)

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Eastman, George

Eccles, William Henry

Edison, Thomas Alva

Thomas Edison at 4 years - 1851

Thomas Edison - c.1875

Thomas Edison - c.1877

Edison's phonograph - 1877

Edison's phonograph and foil recording - c.1877

Phonograph in the Scientific American - 1877

Thomas Edison - c.1885

Edison's first Light Globe

A sketch by Edison showing circuit for energizing a discharge tube

Edison's Vitascope Projector - 1895

Advertisement for the Vitascope - c.1997

Thomas Edison - c.1900

Thomas Edison - c.1900

Edison's 35mm 'Home' Kinetoscope - c.1902

Thomas Edison - c.1920

Thomas Edison - 1920

Thomas Edison - c.1920

Thomas Edison - c.1920

Thomas Edison - 1923

Thomas Edison and (l) George Eastman - c.1925

Related Essays

The Edison 22mm 'Home' Kinetoscope

Edison, A Time Line, 1847 - 1931

Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park

Edison, The Phonograph and the Electric Lamp

Thomas Edison's Inventions and Patents

Edison's Incandescent Electric Lamp

Edison's Kinetograph

Edison's Phonograph or Speaking Machine

Edison's Telegraph Transmitter

(The) Edison Effect

It All Started With Edison

(The) Edison Papers Project

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Unlocking the Legacies of the Edison Archives - by Seth Shulman

Business History Resources in the Edison National Historic Site Archives

The Edison Interactoscope - in preparation

Edison National Historic Web Site

The Utah Collection - Edison Diamond Discs

Thomas A Edison Papers

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Winter Estates WWW Page

Edison, The Father of Light

Thomas Edison and his Menlo Park Laboratory

Thomas Edison's Diamond Discs

Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931

The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison

Elster, Johann Phillipp Ludwig Julius

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Elwell, Cyril F.

Euclid

Faraday, Michael

Michael Faraday - c.1845

Faraday with Frederic Daniell

Faraday with Frederic Daniell - alternate image

Michael Faraday and his experiments with magnetism

Michael Faraday - c.1860

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Michael Faraday

Lines and Waves: Faraday and Maxwell - by Robert D. Friedel

Farnsworth, Philo Taylor

Philo T. Farnsworth - c.1930

Philo T. Farnsworth - c.1930

Philo T. Farnsworth - c.1936

Related Essays

Rigby, Idaho 1920 : 14 Year Old Visionary

Television: Who invented what and when ?

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

The Farnsworth Chronicles

Ferrié, Gustav August

Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey

Reginald A. Fessenden - c.1906

Amplitude Modulation - Diagram

Demodulating an Amplitude Modulated signal - Diagram

FitzGerald, George Francis

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Fleming, Sir John Ambrose

Fleming's first Diode 'Valve' - 1904

Fleming's first Diode 'Valve' - 1904 - alternate photo

The Diode 'Valve' in operation - Diagram

The Diode 'Valve' - Schematic

Sir John Fleming - c.1925

Sir John Fleming - c.1925

Franklin, Benjamin

Related Essays

Ben Franklin and his famous kite

Despite digital restoration, many of the images above are of less than ideal quality. Should better copies come to hand, the files will be updated. Meanwhile some 1000 more images are currently being prepared for the next major update to this and other 'image' based pages. (proposed for early to mid 1998)

As time permits, the intention is to also add sound files to this page. Once again, these files will be of varying quality depending on the original recording and 'number of generations removed' my copy is from the original.

April, 1997

This project is still being continued (post doctorate) and will attempt to indeed add further material as time permits. Thankyou.

December, 1999.

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