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Ferdinand Braun's significant semi-conductor (whisker) detector patent
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Application date 18 Feruary 1906
Granted 22 October 1906
On behalf of:
GESELLSCHAFT FÜR DRAHTLOSE TELEGRAPHIE m.b.H.
(Telefunken)
Shown is the second issue of 13 February 1909
It was in those day not practised to mention names of inventors
For those interested in Ferdinand Braun's first paper on this subject of 1874, published in (Wiedemannsche) Annalen der Physik "Über die Stromleitung in Swefelmetalle" * Please notice, that S.E. means 'Siemens Einheit', which was then the German standard of resistance (based on the Siemens mercury standard). The Annalen der Physik carried sometimes confusing names, of which I choose to use the best known one. Interesting is also, that the definition of the 'volt' was not commonly used. They used instead the EMK of well known battery (voltage) sources. Ferdinand Braun employed the 'Bunsen' battery. The 'Daniell cell' (battery) was also used in those days, and EMKs were then noted in, say, 100 Daniell; which has an equivalence of '110 V'. Some source says, that the US '110 V' mains voltage originate from: 100 Daniell. And, it was Edison who coined 100 Daniell as his future grid voltage. That it actually is 115 volts, originates from an estimated 5 volt cable drop (loss) between user and (street distribution) transformer
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