{"id":157363,"date":"2023-02-09T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/wikipedia-and-other-sources-say-the-arc-converter-sometimes-called-the-arc-transmitter-was-invented-in-1903-by-danish-engineer-valdemar-poulsen"},"modified":"2023-02-09T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:00:44","slug":"wikipedia-and-other-sources-say-the-arc-converter-sometimes-called-the-arc-transmitter-was-invented-in-1903-by-danish-engineer-valdemar-poulsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/wikipedia-and-other-sources-say-the-arc-converter-sometimes-called-the-arc-transmitter-was-invented-in-1903-by-danish-engineer-valdemar-poulsen","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia and other sources say the arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, was invented in 1903 by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wikipedia-and-other-sources-say-the-arc-converter-sometimes-called-the-arc-transmitter-was-invented-in-1903-by-danish-engineer-valdemar-poulsen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arc converter used an electric arc to convert direct current electricity into radio frequency alternating current.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fact that Nikola Tesla invented the arc converter and demonstrated it in a lecture given before the Franklin Institute and National Light Association in 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arc converter used an electric arc to convert direct current electricity into radio frequency alternating current. It is a fact that Nikola Tesla invented the arc converter and demonstrated it in a lecture given before the Franklin Institute and National Light Association in 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}