History of Wireless: Harald Bluetooth
Namesake of Personal Area Wireless Networking Bluetooth® Logo Harald Bluetooth Gormsson, (approximately 935 - 985) ruled as King of Denmark from around 958, and King of Norway from...
Namesake of Personal Area Wireless Networking Bluetooth® Logo Harald Bluetooth Gormsson, (approximately 935 - 985) ruled as King of Denmark from around 958, and King of Norway from...
Wireless Communications for the Consumer Steve Jobs and the MacBook Air Led by Steven Paul Jobs , (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011), Apple popularized Wi-Fi by incorporating the...
Norman Abramson Pioneered Wireless Computer Communications Norman Abramson , (April 1, 1932) is an American engineer and computer scientist, best known for developing the ALOHAnet® system...
Spread Spectrum Communications Pioneer Hedy Lamarr in "The Conspirators" Hedy Lamarr , (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000), was an Austrian-American actress who co-invented – with...
Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN First to "Debug" Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral...
Philo Farnsworth Wireless Radio Transmission Philo Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. A freshly plowed field inspired the Utah...
The world's first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio...
The Father of Wireless Telegraphy Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi, (April 25, 1874– July 20, 1937) was an Italian inventor considered by many as the father of wireless data...
Practical Application of Electromagnetic Radio Waves Alexander Popov Alexander Popov (March 16, 1859 – January 13, 1906) was a Russian physicist who was the first person to demonstrate...
Sir J.C. Bose Microwave Wireless Pioneer Named The Father of Radio Science by IEEE, Jagadish Chandra Bose, (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was an Indian physicist, biologist,...
Transmission of Electromagnetic Waves Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who built on the electromagnetic wave theory...
Tubes to Transistors Vacuum tubes were critical to the early development and commercialization of radio, television, radar, sound reproduction, telephones, computers, and industrial process...
Nikola Tesla The Father of Radio Nikola Tesla, (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. In addition to ground breaking...
Revolutionary Work in Electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (June 13, 1831 –November 5, 1879) was a Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most prominent...
Revolutionary Work in Electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (June 13, 1831 –November 5, 1879) was a Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most...
Welcome to the History of Wireless mini series! Twice a week, we will feature a short entry discussing a historical figure or technology that was important to the evolution and innovation of...