A recent blog post on Mannerisms caught my eye (it's been highlighted in the recent Electronics Weekly email newsletter): The Ten Key Steps To Wireless Communications
It begins: "Sometime this year, the number of active mobile phones in the world will reach three billion out of a world population of six and a half billion people..."
So far so good, but it is the historical reach that tickled my interest. The post continues:
"The wireless industry has been built on a series of key steps of which the first took place in London, one year after the death of George IV."
And indeed the first step is identified as occurring in 1831, with the inventions of Michael Faraday. That's one distant first step. And it goes on, with the next step being just one year later:
* 1831 Michael Faraday’s discovery that the motion of a magnet could induce the flow of electric current in a conductor in the vicinity of the moving magnet.
* 1832 Baron Pavel Schilling’s application of Faraday’s discovery to setting up an electromagnetic telegraph system in St Petersburg
Check out the other eight - The Ten Key Steps To Wireless Communications
