A History of Wireless Telegraphy
Including Some Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs

Table of Contents

Preface to second edition
Preface to first edition
First Period – the Possible:
1. Professor C. A. Steinheil, 1838
2. Edward Davy, 1838
3. Professor Morse, 1842
4. James Bowman Lindsay, 1843
5. J. W. Wilkins, 1845
6. Dr. O'Shaughnessy, 1849
7. E. and H. Highton, 1852–1872
8. G. E. Dering, 1853
9. John Haworth, 1862
10. J. H. Mower, 1868
11. M. Bourbouze, 1870
12. Mahlon Loomis, 1872
Second Period – the Practicable:
1. Preliminary. Notice of the telephone in relation to wireless telegraphy
2. Professor John Trowbridge, 1880
3. Professor Graham Bell, 1882
4. Professor A. E. Dolbear, 1882
5. T. A. Edison, 1885
6. W. F. Melhuish, 1890
7. Charles A. Stevenson, 1892
8. Professor Erich Rathenau, 1894
Third Period – the Practical: Systems in actual use
1. Sir W. H. Preece's method
2. Willoughby Smith's method
3. G. Marconi's method
Appendix A. The relation between electricity and light, before and after Hertz
Appendix B. Prof. Henry on high tension electricity being confined to the surface of conducting bodies, with special reference to the proper construction of lightning-rods. On modern views with respect to the nature of electric currents
Appendix C. Variations of conductivity under electrical influence
Appendix D. Researches of Prof. D. E. Hughes, F. R. S., in electric waves and their application to wireless telegraphy, 1879–1886
Appendix E. Reprint of G. Marconi's patent
Index.