... West Lafayette High School, Fetzer pursued further study in wireless classes at Purdue, allowing him to gain a commercial radio read more...

... campus of Purdue University by developing a thing called wireless. And wireless, became a radio telephone, into what ... then suddenly he became interested in this new thing called wireless. He was able to get an old receiving set, this was back read more...

... youth, his brother-in-law Fred Ribble introduced him to the wireless and the Detroit Tigers. In his teens, his enthusiasm for ... the wireless (i.e., radio) led him to establish contact with Purdue read more...

... descended into the ranks of the middle and the peasant classes, as witness the dropping of the “t” in Fetzer, in order to ... the Wabash Railroad. He taught me the Morse Code and, as a wireless amateur, he taught me much of the early wonders of radio—so read more...

... modern electrical engineering. In 1894 he demonstrated wireless communication through radio, although he lost a court ... 27 his AC power transmission. Tesla also demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices. And Tesla-the read more...

... years) was interested in Morse code ... he knew a man with wireless equipment, and Fred bought the equipment from him. It was ... I wanted to marry. I had already made up my mind about the wireless, so I guess the stage was set for some philosophical read more...

Tom Beaver Oral History 4 of 9 December 10, 2017

... uh, something. And Jim Gordon would talk about it in his classes. He would say, in the '90s, "We're coming up to this period ... the on-record inventor of radio. Uh, he's the inventor of wireless electronic transmission, which hasn't, even today, quite read more...

John E. Fetzer and Theosophy October 21, 2019

... undertaken a series of national tours, giving lectures and classes to widespread acclaim: one of their 1935 classes at Los ... (the Ballards often made use of Masonic venues for their classes). Perhaps because of their phenomenal popularity, the read more...

... interest in radio. He became hooked when he built his first wireless receiver-transmitter at age twelve and received an amateur ... letters in multiple sports. At Purdue University, he took classes in wireless transmission and became exposed to the work of read more...

... Tesla. John was certainly ready for him. He was taking classes at Purdue University when Tesla’s work “My Inventions”—part ... magnetic fields, radio transmission, electronic tubes, wireless transmission of electricity, and Tesla coils. An read more...

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