In the Second Industrial Revolution, steel, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum led the way to new industrial frontiers. New sources of energy and consumer products transformed the standard of living for all social classes in many Euro- pean countries.
Q. Who was a nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for the care of the poor and sick in Hamburg?
Sieveking founded this nursing and charitable association in Hamburg, Germany after an outbreak of cholera there in 1831. Because of her efforts to train the poor for employment, to nurse the sick, and to build hospitals, Sieveking is regarded as a pioneer of modern German social work.
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- Q. Who was a nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for the care of the poor and sick in Hamburg?
- Q. What was the name of the Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach in favor of a more political approach?
- Q. Which of the following sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic?
- Q. Who sent the first radio signal?
- Q. What was Marconi’s first message?
- Q. What was the first transmitted message across an ocean?
- Q. What was the first thing said on the radio?
- Q. What is the longest running radio show in the world?
- Q. When was the first time radio waves were heard?
- Q. Why was a radio called a wireless?
- Q. Who is the father of wireless telegraphy?
- Q. When did the wireless become the radio?
- Q. What are 3 types of wireless connections?
- Q. What is the difference between a wireless and a radio?
- Q. How did radio change the world?
- Q. How did the first radio impact the world?
- Q. What inventions did the radio lead to?
Q. What was the name of the Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach in favor of a more political approach?
revisionists
Q. Which of the following sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic?
Marconi
Q. Who sent the first radio signal?
Guglielmo Marconi
Q. What was Marconi’s first message?
On 13 May 1897, Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open sea – a message was transmitted over the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point near Cardiff, a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi). The message read, “Are you ready”.
Q. What was the first transmitted message across an ocean?
The first Canada/UK transatlantic radio message (as opposed to hearing the signal) was sent from Glace Bay to Poldhu on 15 December 1902….
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| Figure 2: The circuit diagram of the December 1901 Poldhu transmitter in J.A. Fleming’s handwriting. (Bondyopadhyay) |
Q. What was the first thing said on the radio?
At 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 1906, he beamed a “Christmas Concert” to ships of the United Fruit Company, broadcasting from 125-metre towers at Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Astonished crews heard Mr. Fessenden give a speech about the concert, followed by a phonograph recording of Handel’s Largo, making Mr.
Q. What is the longest running radio show in the world?
The once weekly insight into American life, still holds the record for the longest-running speech radio programme presented by one person in history.
Q. When was the first time radio waves were heard?
The first voice and music signals heard over radio waves were transmitted in December 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts (just south of Boston), when Canadian experimenter Reginald Fessenden produced about an hour of talk and music for technical observers and any radio amateurs who might be listening.
Q. Why was a radio called a wireless?
The wireless era In the 1840’s, telegraph networks were built on the U.S. East Coast and in California. The receiver was called a wireless because there were no wires linking to the the transmitting station. It was called radio because the transmitting station radiated electromagnetic waves.
Q. Who is the father of wireless telegraphy?
Guglielmo Marconi
Q. When did the wireless become the radio?
The term wireless has been used twice in communications history, with slightly different meaning. It was initially used from about 1890 for the first radio transmitting and receiving technology, as in wireless telegraphy, until the new word radio replaced it around 1920.
Q. What are 3 types of wireless connections?
There are basically three different types of wireless networks – WAN, LAN and PAN: Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN): WWANs are created through the use of mobile phone signals typically provided and maintained by specific mobile phone (cellular) service providers.
Q. What is the difference between a wireless and a radio?
But radio and wireless–there must be a big difference; they’re spelled a little different. Wireless means communication without the use of wires other than the aerial; the ether and ground taking the place of wires. Radio means exactly the same thing: it is the same process.
Q. How did radio change the world?
Radio is a way news and information can reach the widest audience in the world. The invention of the radio changed that forever. In the early part of the 20th century, experiments with wireless radio were taking off, and soon news from around the world was reaching the homes of millions in an instant.
Q. How did the first radio impact the world?
Radio encouraged the growth of national popular music stars and brought regional sounds to wider audiences. The effects of early radio programs can be felt both in modern popular music and in television programming.
Q. What inventions did the radio lead to?
Radio owes its development to two other inventions: the telegraph and the telephone. All three technologies are closely related, and radio technology actually began as “wireless telegraphy.”
