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Title: The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece
A Personal View

Author: Norman F. Joly

Release Date: July 1, 2008 [EBook #66]

Language: English

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The dawn of amateur radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view

Norman F. Joly.

COPYRIGHT 1990

London : Joly, 1990. - 151p. - 0-9515628-0-0

C O N T E N T S

0. PROLOGUE

1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY

2. THE BIRTH OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

3. WHAT IS A RADIO AMATEUR?

4. THE 1921 AMATEUR TRANSATLANTIC TESTS

5. THE FIRST GREEK RADIO AMATEURS

6. WORLD WAR II AND AFTER IN GREECE

7. PIONEERS IN GREECE

8. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES & ANECDOTES

9. MISCELLANY

10. GLOSSARY FOR NON-TECHNICAL READERS

Prologue

Thales of Miletus.

Thales, who was born in 640 B.C., was a man of exceptional wisdom
and one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece. He was the father of
Greek, and consequently of European philosophy and science. His
speculations embraced a wide range of subjects relating to political
as well as to celestial matters. One must remember that even up to
the 18th century there was no clear distinction between philosophy and
science, both being products of the human mind in its attempts to
explain reality.

Thales had studied astronomy in Egypt so he was able to draw up
accurate tables forecasting when the River Nile would be in flood.
But he first became widely known by anticipating an eclipse of the sun
for May 585 B.C., which happened to coincide with the final battle of
the war between the Lydians and the Persians. He had used some tables
drawn up by Babylonian astron