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  2. Edwin Holmes (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In this way, he quickly assembled a 700-alarm network, which his father then copied in New York. [8] In 1878, Holmes became the president of the newly established Bell Phone Company. While he sold his interests two years later for US$100,000, [9] he kept his rights to use the company phone lines for his alarm system. [8]

  3. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown - Wikipedia

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    Marie Van Brittan Brown (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an American nurse, her husband Albert L. Brown, an electronics technician.In 1966 they invented an audio-visual home security system [1] [2] That same year they applied for a patent for their security system.

  4. John Hays Hammond Jr. - Wikipedia

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    John Hays Hammond Jr. and Sr., 1922. John Hays Hammond Jr. (April 13, 1888 – February 12, 1965) was an American inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control".Hammond's pioneering developments in electronic remote control are the foundation for all modern radio remote control devices, including modern missile guidance systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the unmanned combat aerial ...

  5. Aleksandr Popov (physicist) - Wikipedia

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    In Popov's lightning detector the coherer (C) was connected to an antenna (A), and to a separate circuit with a relay (R) and battery (V) which operated an electric bell (B). The radio noise generated by a lightning strike turned on the coherer, the current from the battery was applied to the relay, closing its contacts, which applied current ...

  6. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Before the discovery of electromagnetic waves and the development of radio communication, there were many wireless telegraph systems proposed and tested. [4] In April 1872 William Henry Ward received U.S. patent 126,356 for a wireless telegraphy system where he theorized that convection currents in the atmosphere could carry signals like a telegraph wire. [5]

  7. Radio receiver - Wikipedia

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    A galena cat's whisker detector from a 1920s crystal radio. Crystal detector (cat's whisker detector) - invented around 1904–1906 by Henry H. C. Dunwoody and Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, based on Karl Ferdinand Braun's 1874 discovery of "asymmetrical conduction" in crystals, these were the most successful and widely used detectors before the ...

  8. Home security - Wikipedia

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    A control panel is implemented to arm and disarm a home security system. The control panel is the main connection to the alarm company monitoring a home. It typically features a touchpad or buttons to easily maneuver the system, and some newer systems also feature voice control or wireless remotes (key fobs).

  9. Charles Walton (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Charles Alfred Dodgsons Walton (December 11, 1921 – November 6, 2011 [1] [2]) is best known as the first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device. Many individuals contributed to the invention of the RFID, but Walton was awarded ten patents in all for various RFID-related devices, including his key 1973 design for a ...