{"id":688,"date":"2024-11-04T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/?page_id=688"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:29:11","slug":"um-telegraph-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/um-telegraph-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Telegraphy History at The University of Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
1832\tSamuel Morse, Leonard Gale and Henry Tappan serve as the first faculty at the University of the City of New York. (aka NYU).  Alfred Vail was a student of Morse.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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1842\tUM President Henry Tappan 1st to witness Morse\u2019s Telegraph (NYU)
1861\tUniversity purchases 3 telegraph sets (Detroit Observatory)\tProf. Franz Brunnow
1867\tAmos E. Dolbear enrolls as an UM graduate student
1868\t1st classroom lecture on Morse\u2019s Telegraph\tProf. Alexander Winchell
1870\tProf. Cleveland Abbe \u201cWeather Prediction\u201d & 1st Director US Weather 
\tBureau (past Astronomy student)
1876\t \u201cThe Art of Projecting\u201d written by Amos E. Dolbear\tAmos E. Dolbear
1876\tPhiladelphia Exposition; Prof. Watson awards 1st Place to Alexander G. Bell (Telephone)
1878\tProf. Watson writes in defense of Alexander G. Bell (Nature)
1879\tAmos E. Dolbear\u2019s Alumni Update Letter (UM Masters & Honorary Ph.D.,)
1885\tDolbear receives Patent for the \u201cwireless\u201d telegraph
1888\tDolbear v Bell.  U.S. Supreme Court
1895\tEngineering Society, Experimentation with Hertzian Waves\tProf. Karl Guthe
1896\tSending message by electricity\tProf. A. Trowbridge
1897\tWireless Experimentation, Dept. of Physics\tProf. Augustus Trowbridge
\t\tProf. Eugen Carhart 
\t\tProf. Karl Guthe
1899\t1st Classroom Demonstration of \u201cWireless\u201d Telegraphy\tProf. Augustus Trowbridge
\t\u201cQuantitative investigation of the coherer\u201d \tProf. Augustus Trowbridge\t
1900\tFaculty Research Club Formed\tProf. Victor C. Vaughan
1902\t\u201cThe Speaking Arc & Wireless Telephony\u201d \tProf. Karl Guthe
1903\t1st \u201cLive\u201d broadcast, via telegraphy, of UM football game (Floyd \u201cJack\u201d Mattice,
\t Little Brown Jug)
1905\tPublished articles on the Coherer\tProfs. Guthe & Trowbridge
1907\t1st Class on \u201cWireless Radio\u201d \tProf. Razlemond D. Parker
1912\tClass 3 Experimental License #17 Issued\tProf. Razelmond D. Parker
1913\t8XA License Granted (Dept. of Electrical Engineering)\tBenjamin N. Burglund\t
1913\tMid-West Floods (Easter Day Floods)\tB. N. Burglund\t
1914\tThe Amateur Radio Relay League was created following the Great Mid-West Floods of 1913.  It was the University of Michigan who received & sent urgent messages asking any amateur to assist those in Ohio.
\tProvided radio support to UM expeditions to Arctic Greenland, and Camp Davis Wyoming
\tProvided radio communications with the Lamont-Hussey Observatory, South Africa
\tProvided radio support to Richard Byrd\u2019s exploration of Antarctica
\tProvided radio support for the first attempts to establish trans-Atlantic crossing by airplane
\t  The Greater Rockford & Untin Bowler aircraft
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1928\t1st Pole-to-Pole Radio Communication (Arctic Greenland & Antarctica) with W8AXZ\tFred Albertson
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1832 Samuel Morse, Leonard Gale and Henry Tappan serve as the first faculty at the University of the City of New York. (aka NYU). Alfred Vail was a student of Morse. 1842 UM President Henry Tappan 1st to witness Morse\u2019s Telegraph (NYU)1861 University purchases 3 telegraph sets (Detroit Observatory) Prof. Franz Brunnow1867 Amos E. Dolbear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192203,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}