After graduation he went to work for a Chicago radio manufacturer, the Stewart Warner Company, where he designed radio receivers. During the same year, Karl Jansky published his first report describing how he had detected the first radio waves from outer space. Reber read Jansky's report and was inspired to pursue these signals himself.
Karl Guthe Jansky was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. In 1927 Bell had created the first transatlantic radiotelephone. However, the telephone links were highly susceptible to electrical interference. In 1930 Jansky was asked to locate the source of the interference. Within two years Jansky discovered three sources of the problem, two of which were related to storms and the third came from an unknown origin. Jansky pursued this third source and discovered that it appeared four minutes earlier each day, which corresponded to the 23 hour 56 minute period of the stars. This meant that the stars emitted energy in the form of radio waves, as well as light waves. Jansky followed up this work with another report in 1935 which linked the radio waves to the distribution of the Milky Way.
Jansky was then assigned to work on other projects at Bell Laboratories and never had the opportunity to continue his work on stellar radio waves.
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