A Canadian, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, invented voice transmission - and
had his trouble collecting any recompense, too.
tOM
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:13, James N. McBride
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wrote re "RE: Re: [OM] [OT]Happy Chanukah to " saying:
> The primary working element of television was invented by a man named Philo
> T. Farnsworth in Rigby, Idaho, USA which is about 12 miles from where I live
> part of the time. Of course RCA stole the idea and it took many years for
> his family finally achieve some success in the court system. /jnm
>
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> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bachofen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: Re: [OM] [OT]Happy Chanukah to all those that acknowledge
> the holiday!
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>
> Hmmm. I dunno, but Nikolai Tesla invented it (Radio) :^)
>
> The Supreme Court ruled on June 21, 1943 in Marconi Wireless T. Co. of
> America v. U.S., 320 U.S. 1 that Marconi invented nothing that was not
> already covered in patents by Tesla, Lodge, and Stone.
>
> Matt
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> On 12/12/01 at 9:08 AM Wayne Harridge wrote:
>
> >> Bachofen <mbachofen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> tragedies was an invention of television, Godless.
> >
> >Today is evidently the 100th anniversary of Marconi's first successful
> >wireless transmission - coincidence ?
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