Popov

In the Ural industrial north, in the settlement of Turinsk mines of Bogoslovsk, in the family of the priest Popov, on March sixteenth, 1895, a boy was born, called Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov.

At ten years of age, Popov was sent to a religious school. After two years, he moved to Ekaterinburg, where his older sister lived, and transferred to the Ekaterinburg Religious School. After finishing many other schools, he went to work in one of the first electric power plants in St. Petersburg. In 1882, after defending his dissertation on dynamos and other electric generators, finally finished his last university.

After so many years of studying electromagnetism, Popov was inspired to make a wireless transmission device. Of all the people trying to make such a thing, Popov was the only one able to switch from abstract electric theories to building a practical working apparatus. Even earlier in his life, he had the idea that one could use radio waves for wireless communication, and this idea he brewed upon until everything became clear to him. After creating the first radio, he gave a well-known speech, the date of which, May seventh, 1895, is remembered as the day of the birth of the radio.

Popov’s main interests, as I have mentioned before, were generally electromagnetism and electro physics, which made him one of the greatest electrical engineers of his day. Popov received many awards in universities, praising him of his dedication to study. He rejected most of these, however, because of his religious education.

One of Popov’s unique qualities was the ability to constantly move from place to place, adapt to the new environment, and gain new friends and knowledge two times faster than the regular human. His ingenious creation baffled mankind, and is still in use today. He wrote a number of tomes with unbelievable patience, until he had all of the facts down that he needed. Today, as one might guess, he is called the Father of the Radio. In general, Popov began his life as a religious learner, continued to physics and mathematics, and finished with electric concepts, from which he derived a device that transmits wireless messages and greatly benefits humanity.

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