Spark Tx's

Have been looking up ‘Spark Tx’s’ & ‘Coherer Receiver’s’ from long ago (1900)

The German word ‘funken’ turns up – To spark?

Any info.
Thanks

to radio = senden

SOS funken – to send out an SOS

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The German word ‘funken’ turns up – To spark?

“Funken” is called the activity of sending (and sometimes also receiving) messages via wire or – more often – wirelessly. I think there is no such “universal” word in English for such an activity, typical translations are “to transmit/cable/radio/broadcast”.

As a noun “Funken” is indeed a spark whereas “funken” means transmitting via radio. Public broadcast is called “Rundfunk” (literally surround-spark). In the US navy at least radio operators are called sparkies.

As a noun “Funken” is indeed a spark

Erm, no :-)

“Das Funken” is the activity of “funken” (“nounified verb” if something like that exists in English) while “Der Funken” is “the spark”.

German. You have to love it. Explain the difference between “Die See” and “Der See”.

Yeah well but „das Funken (n)“ is just a nominalised verb as opposed to „der Funken“ (m).