I think of it this way: Consider radio telescopes. Ask "what was the first one of these?" The trail points back to Jansky's rotating directional antenna. I am happy to grant it the title of "first radio telescope," but I am a relaxed kind of guy.
Those who want to get into semantics and hair-splitting will want to consult Cosmic Noise: A History of Early Radio Astronomy by Woodruff T. Sullivan III, which is a rich source of information on Jansky, Reber, their contemporaries, and observers who preceded them.
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Date: 2013-11-13 11:00 pm (UTC)Those who want to get into semantics and hair-splitting will want to consult Cosmic Noise: A History of Early Radio Astronomy by Woodruff T. Sullivan III, which is a rich source of information on Jansky, Reber, their contemporaries, and observers who preceded them.