Satellite: Innovation in Orbit (Science Museum) by Doug Millard

Satellite: Innovation in Orbit (Science Museum) by Doug Millard

Author:Doug Millard [Millard, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-05-03T04:00:00+00:00


First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner, England, 1945–6. The Telstar 1 satellite used a travelling wave tube to amplify the signals being relayed across the Atlantic.

Replica of the Telstar 1 satellite, 1962. The first satellite to transmit live television between the United States and Europe.

Horn antenna in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, used for the first live transmission of television from the USA to Europe, 1962.

Mr Fred Kappel, Chairman of the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, maker of the Telstar 1 satellite, during its first live transatlantic television broadcast, 1962.



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