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Thomas de Quincey (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1845), Vol XI, p. 301.
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W.E. Ayrton, ‘Sixty Years of Submarine Telegraphy’, The Electrician, 42
(February 19, 1897), p. 548.
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1892, quoted J.J. Fahie, A History of Wireless Telegraphy 1838-1899 (Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899), pp. 198-9.
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W H Eccles and H Morris Airey, ‘Note on The Electrical Waves Occurring in
Nature’, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 85 (1911): [145-50], p. 146.
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‘Cantab’ ‘Strays and their Origin’, Wireless World, 8.10 (August 1920), [346-7], p.
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1 1923) [601-12], p. 601.
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‘Discovery In Wireless: "Atmospherics" Eliminated’, Times, 42043 (March 8,
1919), p. 11.
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‘The Weagant “X-Stopper.” ’ Wireless World, 7.75 (June 1919): 127-31 and 7:76
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W H Eccles and H Morris Airey, ‘Note on The Electrical Waves Occurring in
Nature’, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 85 (1911) [145-50], p. 150.
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J. Reginald Allison, ‘Atmospherics’, Weather and Wireless Magazine, 2.5 (1924),
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Carl Størmer, ‘Short Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis’, Nature, 122 (1928):
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Printing and Publishing Co., 1908), p. 33.
19
‘No Message From Mars: Marconigrams Into Space’, Times, 42393 (April 24,
1920), p. 14.
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22
Wireless World, 8.3 (May 1 1920), p. 101.
23
Karl G. Jansky, ‘Electrical Disturbances Apparently of Extraterrestrial Origin’,
Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 21 (1933): 1387-98.
24
Bernard Lovell, Voice of the Universe: Building the Jodrell Bank Telescope (New
York, Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 1987), p. 21
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‘The Weagant “X-Stopper.” ’ Wireless World, 7.75 (1919): [127-31], p. 129.
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29
Heinrich Barkhausen, ‘Pfeiftöne aus der Erde’, Physikalische Zeitschrift 20
(1919), [402-3], pp. 402-3
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Heinrich Barkhausen, ‘Whistling Tones From the Earth’, Proceedings of the
Institute of Radio Engineers, 18 (July, 1930): 1155-9
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‘Morse Signals: A Growing Source Of Interference’, Times, 44306 (24 June,
1926), p. 28.
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E.T. Burton and E.M. Boardman, ‘Audio-Frequency Atmospherics’, Proceedings
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Wireless World, 1.9 (1913), p. 587.
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E.W. Marchant, ‘Methods of Reducing Interference in Wireless Receiving Sets’,
Wireless World, 12.13 (June 30, 1923): 426-31; discussion, Wireless World, 12.14
(July 7th, 1923): 463-65, p. 465.
35
B.C.L.,‘Wireless Freaks’, Times, 44173 (January 19, 1926), p. 17.
36
‘Strange Causes of Interference: Unsuspected Crystals’, Times, 4441 (October 26,
1926), p. 24.
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Paul Deresco Augsburg, ‘The Leading Man’, On The Air (New York: D. Appleton
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Alvin F. Harlow, Old Wires and New Waves: The History of the Telegraph,
Telephone, and Wireless (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1936), p.
449.
39
Sungook Hong, Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion (Cambridge,
Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 107-12.
40
John Ambrose Fleming, ‘Wireless Telegraphy at the Royal Institution’, Times,
37104 (11 June 1903), p. 4; Nevil Maskelyne, ‘Wireless Telegraphy’, Times, 37106
(13 June 1903), p. 9.
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Quoted in Helen M. Fessenden, Fessenden: Builder of Tomorrows (New York:
Coward-McCann, 1940), p. 121.
42
Patrick Vaux, ‘The Vindication of Binsted, Ex-P.O’, Sea-Salt and Cordite
(London, New York and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914) [39-52], p. 47.
43
W.E. Collinson, Contemporary English: A Personal Speech Record (Leipzig and
Berlin: B.G. Tuebner, 1927), p. 113.
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J. Reginald Allinson, ‘Tracking Thunderstorms With a Frame Aerial’, Weather
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Mark R. Rosenzweig and Geraldine Stone, ‘Wartime Research in Psycho-
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47
F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, “La Radia,” in Wireless Imagination: Sound,
Radio, and the Avant-Garde, ed. Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead (Cambridge,
Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1992) [266-8], p. 267.
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Rupert T. Gould, ‘The History of the Chronometer’, Geographical Review, 57
(1921) [253-70], p. 269
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W.H. Eccles, Atmospheric Telegraphy and Telephony: A Handbook of Formulae,
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Ibid, p. 164.
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‘The Music of the Spheres’, Daily Chronicle, December 10, 1927, Emile
Vuillermoz, ‘Music and the Ether Waves’, Christian Science Monitor, January 21,
1928, both quoted in Albert Glinsky, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Urbana
and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 71.
52
Siegfried Sassoon, ‘A Remembered Queen’, Collected Poems 1908-1956 (London:
Faber and Faber, 1984), p. 238.
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Friedrich Jürgenson, Radio- och mikrofonkontakt med de döda (Uppsala: Nybloms,
1968); Konstantin Raudive, Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic
Communication with the Dead, trans. Nadia Fowler, ed. Joyce Morton (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe, 1971).
55
Edfrid A. Bingham and John Parslow, ‘Fighting Fog With Hertzian Waves’,
Technical World Magazine (July 1909): 520-3, reproduced at
<http://earlyradiohistory.us/1909fog.htm>
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J. Patrick Wilson, ‘The Technological Heritage of Oliver Lodge’, in Oliver Lodge
and the Invention of Radio, ed. Peter Rowlands and J. Patrick Wilson (Liverpool: PD
Publications, 1994) [173-92], pp. 189-90.
57
A.L. Kennelly, letter to Professor Holden, Principal of Lick Observatory in
California, 2 November 1890, quoted, F. Graham Smith, Radio Astronomy, 4th edn.
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p. 18.
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L.C. Hall, ‘Telegraph Talk and Talkers: Human Character and Emotions an
Old Telegrapher Reads on the Wire’, McClure' s Magazine, January, 1902, pages
227-231. at http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/Telegraph_Talk-McClure-
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Arthur P. Harrison Jr., ‘Single-control Tuning: An Analysis of An Innovation’,
Technology and Culture, 20 (1979): 296-321.
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Jonathan Hill, The Cat’s Whisker: 50 Years of Radio Design (London: Oresko
Books, 1978), p. 77.
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Lord Dunsany, ‘Atmospherics’, Plays For Earth and Air (London and Toronto:
William Heinemann, 1937) [147-63], p. 155.
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Ibid, p. 163.
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Arthur L. Salmon, ‘Is Broadcasting a Disaster?’ Musical Times, 66.991 (September
1, 1925) [796-7], p. 796
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‘Auribus’, ‘Wireless Notes’, Musical Times, 70.1042 (December 1st, 1929) [1092-
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Henry Highton, paper on ‘Telegraphy Without Insulation’, read before the Society
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72
‘ “Wireless Music”: A Novel Invention’, Times, 44759 (December 8, 1927), p. 15.
73
‘Drawing Music From the Ether: Demonstration of Russian Professor’s Invention’,
Birmingham Post (December 12, 1927), quoted in Albert Glinsky, Theremin: Ether
Music and Espionage (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 66.
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Spatialized Meteorological Data Sonification Project’, Leonardo, 38.1 (February
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76
David Toop, Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (London: Serpent’s
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