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needle. He noted the filings in the tube would react to the electric discharge even when the tube was placed in another room 20 yards away. Branly went on to devise many types of these devices based on "imperfect" metal contacts. Branly's filings tube came to light in 1892 in Great
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powered by the coherer current itself. When the radio wave turned on the coherer, the DC current from the battery flowed through the electromagnet, pulling the arm over to give the coherer a tap. This returned the coherer to the nonconductive state, turning off the electromagnet current, and the
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Coherers were also finicky to adjust and not very sensitive. Another problem was that, because of the cumbersome mechanical "decohering" mechanism, the coherer was limited to a receiving speed of 12 – 15 words per minute of Morse code, while telegraph operators could send at rates of 50 WPM, and
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mechanism was added to tap the coherer, mechanically disturbing the particles to reset it to the high resistance state. If a dash is being transmitted then the radio frequency is still being received when the tap happens, and the coherer immediately becomes conductive again and the whole process
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and coherer-based receiver in a range of radio-controlled (RC) toys, called
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who saw this as a way to build a much improved
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made contact with the metal particles on both ends. In some coherers, the electrodes were slanted so the width of the gap occupied by the filings could be varied by rotating the tube about its long axis, thus adjusting its sensitivity to the prevailing conditions.
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electricity. The radio signal from the antenna was applied directly across the coherer's electrodes. When the radio signal from a "dot" or "dash" came in, the coherer would become conductive. The coherer's electrodes were also attached to a
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distance, using an improved version of Branly's filings tube, which Lodge had named the "coherer", as a detector. In May 1895, after reading about Lodge's demonstrations, the
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electricity flowing across the small contact area between particles. The underlying principle of so-called "imperfect contact" coherers is also not well understood, but may involve a kind of
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found that loose contacts between a carbon rod and two carbon blocks as well as the metallic granules in a microphone he was developing responded to sparks generated in a nearby apparatus.
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signals, which began to be experimented with in the first years of the 20th century. This problem was solved by the rectification capability of the
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of the coherer. When the coherer conducts better, battery
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to shield the coherer from the RF noise from its contacts.
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960:, Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 2–3, 2–4.
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831:Another tripod detector built by Branly
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981:. Williams & Norgate. p. 54.
267:may be able to help recruit an expert.
1192:"Radio Controlled Toys Use Spark Gap"
958:Electronics Engineer's Reference Book
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1323:Bondyopadhyay, P.K. (January 1998).
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166:proven to exist by German physicist
866:Electrical contact resistance (ECR)
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1416:Maver, William Jr. (August 1904).
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1418:"Wireless Telegraphy To-Day"
1357:Douglas, Alan (April 1981).
913:Phillips, Vivian J. (1980).
492:. A series combination of a
96:. In 1835 Swedish scientist
2631:History of radio technology
2097:Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1492:". Marconi Calling Company.
1012:American Journal of Physics
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304:transmitted information by
255:. The specific problem is:
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1447:Aitken, Hugh G.J. (2014).
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934:Cuff, Thomas Mark (1993).
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1722:Optical telecommunication
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564:automatic braking system
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672:Limitations of coherers
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891:Camille Papin Tissot
768:and Lee De Forest's
581:Jagdish Chandra Bose
106:Samuel Alfred Varley
2107:Johann Philipp Reis
1866:Wireless revolution
1828:The Telephone Cases
1685:Hydraulic telegraph
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1075:History of Wireless
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936:Coherers, a review.
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618:U.S. patent 755,840
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119:David Edward Hughes
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