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1913 in radio

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The year 1913 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

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  • 31 January – Edwin Howard Armstrong first demonstrates the employment of three-element vacuum tubes in circuits that amplify signals to stronger levels than previously thought possible and that could also generate high-power oscillations usable for radio transmission. On 29 October he applies for a United States patent covering the regenerative circuit.[1][2]
  • Spring – Lee de Forest utilizes the feedback principle operate a low-powered transmitter for heterodyne reception of the Federal Telegraph Company's arc transmissions.[2]
  • 12 November – The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea is convened in London and produces a treaty requiring shipboard radio stations to be manned 24 hours a day.
  • Late – Lee de Forest is acquitted of stock fraud in connection with the Radio Telephone Company in the United States.
  • The Marconi Company initiates duplex transatlantic wireless communication between North America and Europe for the first time, transmitting from Marconi Towers at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, to Letterfrack in Ireland.
  • The cascade-tuning radio receiver is introduced.[3]
  • Lee de Forest publishes a description of his Audion triode detecting or amplifying vacuum tube.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ U.S. patent 1,113,149 which is granted on 6 October 1914.
  2. ^ a b Lewis, Tom (1991). Empire of the Air: the men who made radio. New York: Edward Burlingame Books. pp. 77, 87, 192. ISBN 0-06-098119-9.
  3. ^ "Radio/Broadcasting Timeline". CBN History. WCBN. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  4. ^ De Forest, Lee (1913). "The Audion — Detector and Amplifier". Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers. 2. New York: 15–36.