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English: An experimental 3.3 GHz microwave radiotelephone transmitter developed by scientist Ilia E. Mouromtseff at Westinghouse laboratories in 1933. It was demonstrated at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. During the 1930s the first low power vacuum tubes capable of generating microwaves were invented. The microphone converts the voice of the man into a varying audio frequency alternating current. The audio modulates the microwaves generated by a small tube at the focus of the shiny parabolic reflector. The microwaves are reflected by the parabolic reflector into a beam, which travels to a receiver several miles away, which converts the electric signal back into sound. The radiated power was about 1 watt.
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Source Retrieved 26 August 2024 from Mouromtseff, I. E. "3.5 inch Waves Now Practical" in Short Wave Craft magazine, Popular Book Corp. Vol.4, No.5, September 1933, p.267 on https://www.worldradiohistory.com
Author I. E. Mouromtseff (died 19 May 1954)
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(Reusing this file)		 This 1933 issue of Short Wave Craft magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1961. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1960, 1961, and 1962 show no renewal entries for Short Wave Craft. Therefore the copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.

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Experimental microwave transmitter

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September 1933

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