Hochfrequenz-Maschinen Aktiengesellschaft für Drahtlose Telegraphie (HOMAG)
Berlin

Hochfrequenz-Maschinen Aktiengesellschaft für Drahtlose Telegraphie (The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy) or HOMAG for short, built equipment and wireless stations based on the Goldschmidt System of Radio Telegraphy.

In 1912, Homag (The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy) owned the patent rights for Rudolf Goldschmidt’s System of Wireless for all countries except Germany and her possessions. It was at that time that Homag began to build the Tuckerton, New Jersey wireless station for worldwide communication using Rudolf Goldschmidt’s technology and help. The station was completed in 1914 which used a 100-kW Goldschmidt alternator, making it the most powerful continuous wave (CW) station in the USA. In addition to the novel alternator transmitter technology, the Goldschmidt system used a novel “tone wheel” to adapt German receiver technology for the reception of undamped waves (e.g. the reception of CW).

Homag is discussed in the book “Wireless Communication in the United States” by Thorn Mayes, published in 1989 by the New England Wireless and Steam Museum Inc. in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA. Also, an article on the “The Goldschmidt System of Radio Telegraphy” by Emil Mayer is published in the March 1914 Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). Homag equipment is pictured in this article.