Our fascination with extraterrestrials, aliens, and UFOs is hardly new. Two famous inventors were fascinated with Mars and wondered if they were making contact with the Martians. Guglielmo Marconi and Nicholas Tesla no sooner had created radio than they began to wonder whether the ‘noise of the line’ might be signals from the Red Planet. […]
Wireless Transmissions and Martian Deception On Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, actor and writer, Orson Welles established the most famous connection ever between Mars and wireless technology. But it was far from the most provocative. The broadcast of H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds (1898), scared the pants off at least one million Americans, especially […]
