[BC] Old radios

[Mark Humphrey]

On 8/14/06, Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:
>  there's an extensive collection of French-made
> radios in the museum at Maison Radio France....
> Their museum also elevates Edouard Branly, the inventor of the coherer,
> to a position in radio history slightly above Marconi, Fessenden, Tesla,
> Armstrong and Sarnoff. National pride, I guess.


That's the great thing about foreign museums!

Visit the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and you'll see that Heinrich
Hertz really invented radio... but the Brits say it was Maxwell and
Faraday!  (They also allow Marconi some of the credit because his mum
was Irish -- under UK rule at that time.)

Mark