Death Quote by Bill O'Neill

Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th…

— Anthony Doerr

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the…

— R. W. Apple

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..

— William Cecil Dampier

“sure where this was going. “So,” his uncle continued, “I think to myself that if the German radio hunters are looking for illegal radios…

— Mark T. Sullivan

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

— Lord Kelvin

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl…

— Honor Harger

“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.”

— Steven Magee

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it…

— Max von Laue

Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid…

— Joseph Rotblat