!!!Nußbaumer, Otto

Nussbaumer, Otto, b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), March 31, 1876, 
d. Salzburg, Jan. 5, 1930, physicist and inventor. 1904 
accomplished the first wireless transmittal of music using a detector 
he had constructed himself (now on display in the Technical Museum in 
Vienna) at the department of physics at the University of Technology 
in Graz. This invention was not followed up in Austria but was 
successfully exploited by R. Fessenden and L. de Forest in the USA and 
by G. Marconi in Italy.

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