| 词条 | Charles Apgar |
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Apgar's equipmentApgar fitted the electrical element of a headphone to a home-made recording head he attached to an Edison cylinder phonograph. This Rube Goldberg machine allowed him to record Morse code radio signals picked up by his receiver on wax cylinders. He made at least a dozen such recordings before 1915. In that era there were few radio stations to record, so most recordings made by Apgar are relatively pedestrian. He mostly recorded Morse code news bulletins from WHB in Manhattan.[3] Significance of the recordingsApgar's original wax cylinders are lost, but some samples of his recordings survive. These still exist in yet another aircheck. Apgar made an appearance on station WJZ in New York City in 1934. Airchecks of this broadcast are owned by the Antique Wireless Association, and a tape copy is in the Library of Congress.[3] But on three cylinders Apgar managed to record some strange Morse code. Some of these led to the discovery of high-speed coded messages being transmitted by German spies through the Telefunken wireless station at Sayville, Long Island.[4] This was critical information relating to the United States's entry into World War I. Prior to this, it was not possible to record messages for decoding. Other accomplishmentsApgar later worked for the Marconi Company. While there he invented an ampliphone circuit which amplified even the smallest noises so as to make them easier to record. He also invented the paper cone loudspeaker which is used in most radios now. References1. ^U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 2. ^{{cite journal|last=Hogg|first=F.S.|title=Notes and Queries- Obituary: Mr. Charles E. Apgar|journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada|date=December 1950|volume=44|page=247|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/JRASC/0044//0000247.000.html?high=512695a29c28073}} 3. ^1 {{Cite journal|url = http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Articles/Elizabeth%20McLeod/Documenting%20Early%20Radio.htm|title = Documenting Early Radio: A Review of Existing Pre-1932 Radio Recordings|last = McLeod|first = Elizabeth|date = n.d.|journal = Old Time Radio Library|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 2016-01-24}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title = Book of Radio|last = Taussig|first = Charles William|publisher = Appleton and Company|year = 1922|isbn = |location = New York|pages = 191–202}} External links
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