The Musée Édouard Branly is a museum dedicated to the work of

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ...

pioneer Édouard Branly (1844-1940). It is located in the 6th arrondissement at the Institut Catholique de Paris-ISEP, 21,

rue d'Assas Rue d'Assas is a street in the 6th ''arrondissement'' of Paris, named after Nicolas-Louis d'Assas. Features * Musée Edouard Branly (at #21) * Musée "Bible et Terre Sainte" (at #21) * Main campus of Panthéon-Assas University (at #92) * Zadk ...

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, and open by appointment only.Michael Zils - Museums of the World: Afghanistan-Swaziland - 2001 Page 192 "Musée Édouard-Branly. 21 Rue d'As Paris - T: 0149545220" The museum contains the research laboratory and equipment used by Édouard Branly, a physics professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris and inventor of the first widely used

receiver, the Branly

coherer The coherer was a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the 20th century. Its use in radio was based on the 1890 findings of French physicist Édouard Bran ...

circa 1884-1886. Its collection includes a number of early devices used in wireless experiments, such as electrolytic detectors, insulated tubes filled with metal filings, a Righi oscillator, generators, electromagnets, metallic blades mounted on glass, electrical contacts, and a column of six steel balls stacked in a glass cylinder.

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Musée Edouard Branly
- Institut Catholique de Paris

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* Jean-Claude Boudenot, ''Comment Branly a découvert la radio'', EDP Sciences Editions, 2005, page 53. . * ''Musée Branly: appareils et matériaux d'expériences'', Association des amis d'Edouard Branly, Musée Branly, 1997. {{DEFAULTSORT:Musee Edouard Branly Museums in Paris Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris Telecommunications museums Science museums in France Branly

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