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Radio Astronomy, K. Jansky, 1933


Speech Synthesis, The Vocoder, 1936


First Electrical Digital Computer, "Binary Adder", 1937
 
    1930
  Band Gaps Related to Bragg Scattering (Brillouin)
 
    1931
  Waveguides for Transmission of Electromagnetic Waves
  Band Theory of Semiconductors (Wilson)
 
    1933
  Noise Studies in Transatlantic Radio Circuits Leads to Discovery of Galactic Radio Noise; Beginning of Radio Astronomy
  First Transmission of Stereophonic Sound Over Phone Lines
 
    1934 - 1943
  Pioneering Studies of Collective Phenomena in Plasmas & Electron Beams which Affect Power Output, Noise & Frequency Response of Vacuum Tubes
 
    1934
  High Speed Motion Picture Camera
 
    1936
  Speech Synthesis Machine
  Schottky Diode Theory (Schottky & Mott)
  Mervin Kelly Forms Solid-State Physics Group at Bell Labs; W. Shockley Hired
 
    1937
  First Electrical Digital Computer: Made of Telephone Switches & Relays
  Nobel Prize in Physics to C. Davisson & Sir G. Thomson for their Experimental Discovery of the Diffraction of Electrons by Crystals
 
    1938
  Radio Altimeter