View. comments. The richest 80 people in the world have been revealed... and 35 of them are American. According to a new report from Oxfam International, the combined wealth of the 80 richest billionaires is the same as that of the bottom 50% of the Earth's population - 3.5 billion people.
Remote relay beacon. Dellis Tantor plants a remote relay beacon. Remote relay beacons were tall communication structures which could retransmit data through a line-of-sight network. Once deployed, the beacons would search out any nearby beacons and establish a laser connection thourgh which data could be transmitted.
The relay was invented in 1835 by Joseph Henry (1797-1878), an American scientist. It made modern telegraphy possible and evolved into the repeater- thus the relay- a remote controlled switch, was in effect the first ( Electronic) device, though not anything involving crystals, diodes, vacuum tubes etc.