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Kathy Loves Physics & History | The Arc Transmitter (Poulsen Arc) and the Titanic @Kathy_Loves_Physics | Uploaded 6 years ago | Updated 16 hours ago
The Poulsen Arc was a vital part of early radio history. How was it invented, how does it work and what does that have to do with the Titanic? This is a story of a chemist with a basement full of batteries, a trailblazing female scientist, her husband's musical grad student, a Dane who made the impossible, possible, and an overworked telegraph operator.


Check it out!


The deleted scenes from James Cameron's 1997 "Titanic" were taken from https://youtu.be/U8PLDqqdpu0 (and short clips used without profit for educational purposes so I should be OK (cross fingers))

As usual the music is from the fabulous Kim Nalley.
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