Historical column

摘要

EuCAP 2017, the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, was held in Paris March 19–24, 2017 (http://www.eucap.org/). Although the conference was of course focused on recent advances in antennas and propagation, it did not overlook its past developments. In particular, there was a session on “A Century After Tesla: How Far Have We Come With Wireless Power Transfer.” This explicitly referred to the history of wireless and, most importantly, a page on the Web site was dedicated to “A Parisian history of antennas and propagation.” There, the achievements of Claude Chappe [December 25, 1763, BrÛlon, France — January 23, 1805, Paris, France] were briefl y outlined (Figure 1).