Don’t ask me how I got here, but i thought I’d bookmark the 1922 patent of C. F. Jenkins for sending pictures over wireless.
TRANSMITTING PICTURES BY WIRELESS CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS
His book, Vision By Radio is available via archive.org.
Don’t ask me how I got here, but i thought I’d bookmark the 1922 patent of C. F. Jenkins for sending pictures over wireless.
TRANSMITTING PICTURES BY WIRELESS CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS
His book, Vision By Radio is available via archive.org.
Okay, I’m not a gazillionaire, so all of this interest is (pardon the expression) purely academic, but check out the 347 lots available in this weeks Christie’s auction of scientific books. A truly amazing collection of rare antique books on a wide variety of scientific topics.
IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOKS: THE RICHARD GREEN LIBRARY
There’s even an Enigma machine for sale.
And a Hooke’s Micrographia, which you can also get from Project Gutenberg if you don’t have 30 or 40 thousand dollars.