Religions > Atheism > Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission?
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"Michael Gray" |
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11 Nov 2007 09:37:04 PM |
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Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
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| User: "J Young" |
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| Title: Re: Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
11 Nov 2007 10:55:51 PM |
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"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
Sounds like an 'old wives' tale.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
12 Nov 2007 02:23:34 AM |
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:55:51 -0500, "J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com>
wrote:
"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:81ifj39cl7mvcs3m61fvubrpncm88f9734@4ax.com...
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
Sounds like an 'old wives' tale.
If you say it is, then it is a certainty that it is NOT.
You are a compulsive fabricator.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
12 Nov 2007 12:45:30 AM |
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In article <81ifj39cl7mvcs3m61fvubrpncm88f9734@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
Learn something new every day. Thanks.
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John #1782
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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| Title: Re: Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
12 Nov 2007 07:39:36 AM |
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On Nov 12, 3:37 am, Michael Gray <mikeg...@newsguy.com> wrote:
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
I would argue that the frog was the first to receive a radio
transmission. Its sex doesn't seem to have been recorded :-)
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| User: "Savageduck" |
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12 Nov 2007 11:58:47 AM |
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On 2007-11-12 05:39:36 -0800, Nosterill <fladgate@hotmail.com> said:
On Nov 12, 3:37 am, Michael Gray <mikeg...@newsguy.com> wrote:
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
I would argue that the frog was the first to receive a radio
transmission. Its sex doesn't seem to have been recorded :-)
The history of Galvani's experiments I was taught was, the legs (as a
pair) were not attached to the frog. This would make it unlikely that
the frog would be aware of anything let alone a radio signal (no frog
brain, no awareness). An electrical impulse to the frog legs was made
with contacts of dissimilar metals causing a muscular twitch. This
electro-muscular response was due to electrolyes in body tissues and
fluids reacting with the metals to create an electrical current to
contract the muscles, not through the air transmission.
The undocumented story was, after almost 6 years of experimenting with
the interaction of differing metals on frog leg muscle, in 1783 one of
Galvani's assistants accidently touched the frog's legs with a scalpel
which had picked up a charge from an electrostatic generator, the
"electrophorus" developed by Wicke and improved by Volta, not a Leyden
Jar.
The generator was a series of glass, metal and leather discs which were
hand cranked between felt pads to generate the static electricity. I
recall seeing an etching of the device some 40 years ago. Galvani had
been stimulating the leg twitches and muscle contractions years before,
and this was a development of his experiments.
For Leyden Jar experiments check on Volta.
I have never heard or read of Lucia Galvani having any role in the
experiments, this might be true, or it might be revisionist history.
Given the times, I doubt she would have described herself as a
"physiologist/anatomist".
Again now would be the time to post evidence beyond conjecture if it exists.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Was a female the very first to receive a radio transmission? |
13 Nov 2007 12:02:45 AM |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:39:36 -0800, Nosterill <fladgate@hotmail.com>
wrote:
On Nov 12, 3:37 am, Michael Gray <mikeg...@newsguy.com> wrote:
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
I would argue that the frog was the first to receive a radio
transmission. Its sex doesn't seem to have been recorded :-)
A good point, and one of which I had not contemplated until now,
possibly due to my ingrained speciesist indoctrination.
I (genuinely) thank you for oh, what does Richard Dawkins call it?
Consciousness-raising!
It is made an even greater achievement in that the Rana performed this
historic feat whilst "life challenged"!
All this occurred in the midst of my attempt to slay the spectre of
sexism in science.
How very ironic!
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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13 Nov 2007 03:03:41 AM |
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On Nov 13, 6:02 am, Michael Gray <mikeg...@newsguy.com> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:39:36 -0800, Nosterill <fladg...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
On Nov 12, 3:37 am, Michael Gray <mikeg...@newsguy.com> wrote:
I have a theory the Lucia Galvani (nee Galeazzi) was the very first
person to receive a man-made radio transmisson (seriously).
She was (apparently) conducting an electrical experiment with a frog's
leg, (as her husband Luigi was wont to do), and a fellow researcher
(unnamed) was tinkering with a Leyden jar spark machine in the corner
of her lab.
Every time the spark machine 'went off', she noticed a very small
reaction in the frog leg that she was working with.
She went on investigate the phenomon with her husband.
This would have been in the 1770s.
This definitely qualifies as reception of an artifical radio signal,
and is likely the very first.
And by a woman physiologist/anatomist.
Yet folk variously claim that Hertz, Popov, Tesla, etc was the first,
more than 100 years later.
Comments and observations are welcome.
I would argue that the frog was the first to receive a radio
transmission. Its sex doesn't seem to have been recorded :-)
A good point, and one of which I had not contemplated until now,
possibly due to my ingrained speciesist indoctrination.
I (genuinely) thank you for oh, what does Richard Dawkins call it?
Consciousness-raising!
It is made an even greater achievement in that the Rana performed this
historic feat whilst "life challenged"!
All this occurred in the midst of my attempt to slay the spectre of
sexism in science.
How very ironic!
This does raise the further possibility of fixing the frog's foot to a
membrane, such as a drum skin, and thereby combining the functions of
a radio receiver and a loudspeaker. Tuning could be interesting -
maybe, to continue the undeadstock theme, there is the possibility of
a tuna tuner.
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