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Valdemar Poulsen, a Common card
Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer and inventor who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Valdemar Poulsen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Valdemar Poulsen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer and inventor who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in ____.
Answer
1890s. Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer and inventor who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898. From the Valdemar Poulsen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Maurice Allais. Maurice Allais 67 · Lewis Binford 64 · Valdemar Poulsen 59 · Transferrin receptor 1 53 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also made significant contributions to early radio technology, including the first continuous wave radio transmitter, the Poulsen arc, which was used for a majority of the earliest audio radio transmissions, before being supplanted by the development of vacuum-tube transmitters.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Valdemar Poulsen article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Valdemar Poulsen
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Valdemar Poulsen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
