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Society: IEEE Main Category: Electric Sub Category: Era: 1920-1929 DateCreated: 1924 Tohoku University Sendai-shi State: Zip: Country: Japan Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Directive_Short_Wave_Antenna,_1924 Creator: Hidetsugu Yagi, Uda, Shintaro
Beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and amateur radio. The antenna system, using a driven element with closely coupled parasitics (usually a reflector and one or more directors) for short-wave work, was first described by S. Uda, a professor at Tohuku University in Japan, in 1926, in the IEEJ (Japan). A colleague, Professor H.
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1995
Image Credit: Courtesy IEEE Image Caption: The Yagi-Uda directive short wave antenna Era_date_from: 1924
Bay City Walking Dredge
Society: ASME Main Category: Mechanical Sub Category: Materials Handling & Excavation Era: 1920-1929 DateCreated: 1924 Collier-Seminole State Park Naples State: FL Zip: 34114 Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-m-z/materials-handling-and-excavation/-172-bay-city-walking-dredge-%281924%29 Creator: Bay City Dredge Works, Anderson, Vincent

Built by the Bay City Dredge Works of Bay City, Michigan, this dredge was used to construct a portion of US 41 called the Tamiami Trail, which connected Tampa with Miami through the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. The last remaining display of walking dredges (of some 145 walking machines), it has a unique propulsion design enabling the dredge to cope with drainage problems in a wetlands environment.

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1994
Image Credit: Courtesy Wikipedia/Ebyabe (CC BY-SA 3.0) Image Caption: The Bay City Walking Dredge as it sits in Collier-Seminole State Park Era_date_from: 1924
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Bay City Walking Dredge

Built by the Bay City Dredge Works of Bay City, Michigan, this dredge was used to construct a portion of US 41 called the Tamiami Trail, which connected Tampa with Miami through the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. The last remaining display of walking dredges (of some 145 walking machines), it…

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Beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and… Read More

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