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- How early radio put speech onto a wave.
A transmitter produces a steady carrier wave, say 1,000 kilohertz. In AM radio the microphone signal varies the …
- The "Spanish flu" didn't come from Spain.
The 1918 to 1920 pandemic killed an estimated 17 to 50 million people. It got its name because Spain was neutral in the …
- The 1938 radio panic was mostly a newspaper invention.
On 30 October 1938, Orson Welles aired "The War of the Worlds" as a fake news broadcast. Legend says millions fled from …
- The Tour de France was invented to sell newspapers.
In 1903 the sports paper "L'Auto" was locked in rivalry with "Le Vélo". Editor Henri Desgrange organised a cycling race …
- The Web was given away in 1993. On purpose.
Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN in March 1989; the first website ran there by late 1990, and the …
- The first Atlantic cable died after three weeks.
In August 1858, a cable linked Ireland with Newfoundland. A greeting from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan took …
- The first cinema programme lasted about 20 minutes.
On 28 December 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière showed ten short films to a paying audience at the Grand Café in Paris …
- The first telegraph line read like scripture. It was.
On 24 May 1844, Samuel Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" from Washington to Baltimore over a line of …
- The first text message was sent from a computer.
On 3 December 1992, engineer Neil Papworth typed "Merry Christmas" on a PC and sent it over the Vodafone network to a …