I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.
As a kid I had this idea of using mirrors for wireless communication. I've never heard of this one before but it makes me very happy! I was thinking of using it for like, torrents or something though.
Just put an acoustic coupler on the back of a mirror and you’ve done half of the job. Don’t see any reason you couldn’t get modem speeds at the very least.
IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.
In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer. Correct me if I'm mistaken.
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I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.
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As a kid I had this idea of using mirrors for wireless communication. I've never heard of this one before but it makes me very happy! I was thinking of using it for like, torrents or something though.
Just put an acoustic coupler on the back of a mirror and you’ve done half of the job. Don’t see any reason you couldn’t get modem speeds at the very least.
What kind of a signal were you thinking of bouncing off the mirror?
Alexander Graham Bell was a successful inventor and made breakthroughs with helicopters and hydrofoils. Definitely not a one trick pony.
IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.
In more technical terms, Bell used amplitude modulation of audio using light as the carrier wave, and selenium as a photoconductive transducer. Correct me if I'm mistaken.