FIRST WIRELESS SIGNAL
Eighty-two years ago wireless telegraphy was born when James Bowman Lindsay, a schoolmaster, earning less than £50 a year, flashed a message across a Dundee millpond. A Dundee newspaper reporting the demonstration which took place on April 12, 1853, said: "The • experiment removes all doubt about the practicability of telegraphic communication without wires."
:. The records of the British Association fix the Dundee millpond experi- ■• ment as the birth of wireless; and ; Marchese Marconi has declared Lind- ',-. say to be its father.
t But Lindsay has many other claims •: to fame than the invention of wire- .■• less. He used electric light for the first time in public in 1835; proposed ; the first Atlantic cable; and invented ~ the forerunner of the high-speed news ' t tape and teleprinter.
~, Lindsay spent 25 years on a dictionary in 107 languages. It was never finished, but the manuscript is in Dundee Museum. He also wrote the Lord's .jPrayer in 50 languages. He died a ?5)"oor man.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 11
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163FIRST WIRELESS SIGNAL Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 11
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