European diversity is our strength. Westernkind. One people, many countries. From erie and albion arcing through northern europe, From erie albion arcing south along the Mediterranean the beauty, diversity, and inventivenss of our people is unmatched.
The steps leading to the invention of radio is an example of the inventive creativeness of the diversity of our people. |
The Road to Radio - a mosaic of the diversity of Western Civilization.
Science, technology and invention progress through the layering of new discoveries, layering them upon the body of knowledge of the day. Knowledge builds upon knowledge manifesting itself in new technologies, and new discoveries ---- increasing the body of knowledge. The invention of radio by Marconi in 1894 is an excellent example of the diversity of Western kind coming together in this marvelous invention. I think of it as fording a creek, the stepping stones get laid, some big, some small. Many are involved in laying the stones and eventually the last stone gets placed, in the last critical location allowing mankind to cross into a new frontier of discovery and industry. In the case of radio many small stones and some really large ones were laid. The large stones were laid by a Dane, Englishman, Scottsman, German and finally an Italian.
The Dane: Hans Christian Oersted – electricity affects a magnet, Oersted’s law, also known as the right hand rule.
The Englishman: Michael Farady – discovers electromagnetic induction
The Scott: James Clerk Maxwell – Develops equations predicting electromagnetic waves will radiate at the speed of light.
The German: Heinrich Hertz – experimentally demonstrates that Maxwell’s was right.
The Italian: Guillermo Marconi – puts it all together with the invention and demonstration of radio. He seeds an industry based upon the new wireless radio transmission technology.
If you research these scientists you will find they accomplished much more than what is discussed in the videos. Each of their stories and accomplishments are quite amazing and worthy of individual study. But what about some of the other players that made this all possible.
Carl Fredrich Gauss: German, Developed equations concerning the behavior of electric and magnetic lines of force; known as Gauss’ law, integrated by Maxwell into his theory.
Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart: Frenchmen, known for the Biot-Savart law for calculating magnetic force Andre Marie Ampere: Frenchman, physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics”.
Charles Augustin de Coulomb: French, known for Coulomb’s law of electric attraction.
Alesandro Volta: Italian, physicist, chemist, inventor of the battery.
Joseph Henry: American of Scottish descent, discoverer of self inductance
You might be thinking, wasn’t 19th century Europe a rather turbulent one? Yes, it was, but that is a story for another time. Even so, in the face of turbulent headwinds, 19th century Europe was a magnificent creative continent.
One people, many nations, Western Civilization at its creative best.
Science, technology and invention progress through the layering of new discoveries, layering them upon the body of knowledge of the day. Knowledge builds upon knowledge manifesting itself in new technologies, and new discoveries ---- increasing the body of knowledge. The invention of radio by Marconi in 1894 is an excellent example of the diversity of Western kind coming together in this marvelous invention. I think of it as fording a creek, the stepping stones get laid, some big, some small. Many are involved in laying the stones and eventually the last stone gets placed, in the last critical location allowing mankind to cross into a new frontier of discovery and industry. In the case of radio many small stones and some really large ones were laid. The large stones were laid by a Dane, Englishman, Scottsman, German and finally an Italian.
The Dane: Hans Christian Oersted – electricity affects a magnet, Oersted’s law, also known as the right hand rule.
The Englishman: Michael Farady – discovers electromagnetic induction
The Scott: James Clerk Maxwell – Develops equations predicting electromagnetic waves will radiate at the speed of light.
The German: Heinrich Hertz – experimentally demonstrates that Maxwell’s was right.
The Italian: Guillermo Marconi – puts it all together with the invention and demonstration of radio. He seeds an industry based upon the new wireless radio transmission technology.
If you research these scientists you will find they accomplished much more than what is discussed in the videos. Each of their stories and accomplishments are quite amazing and worthy of individual study. But what about some of the other players that made this all possible.
Carl Fredrich Gauss: German, Developed equations concerning the behavior of electric and magnetic lines of force; known as Gauss’ law, integrated by Maxwell into his theory.
Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart: Frenchmen, known for the Biot-Savart law for calculating magnetic force Andre Marie Ampere: Frenchman, physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics”.
Charles Augustin de Coulomb: French, known for Coulomb’s law of electric attraction.
Alesandro Volta: Italian, physicist, chemist, inventor of the battery.
Joseph Henry: American of Scottish descent, discoverer of self inductance
You might be thinking, wasn’t 19th century Europe a rather turbulent one? Yes, it was, but that is a story for another time. Even so, in the face of turbulent headwinds, 19th century Europe was a magnificent creative continent.
One people, many nations, Western Civilization at its creative best.