Clear
Channel, LookRadio, SBC, EasyTel, QuickTime, WWBC, Yahoo
and China Expo to join in
"The Big Broadcast of 1902 - Live
Telecast"
Radio
Historians are calling
their army of followers to order --
said Bernie Schwartz of
Lookradio, Friday, February 15, 2002. No more
haphazard claims, no grunge, funk or other offbeat
"who invented what" statements, said Alden
Keith Stubblefield of Clear
Channel Entertainments, the great-grandson of Nathan
B. Stubblefield, gave details from his Burbank
offices.
Historians
say YES -- that Nathan B.
Stubblefield's wireless Potomac River
Ship-to-Shore broadcast on March 20th, 1902, was a
world's first. This is the 2002 message from the family
members of the wireless telephone radio inventor and
patent holder, Nathan B. Stubblefield, who announced
their plans to hold the 100th year celebration for the
world's first ship to shore radio broadcast on March 20th
this year.
Starting
from the photo of the small ship Bartholdi --
taken of the event by the
Washington Post in 1902, Stubblefield, explained
the big difference of what happened then, and what's
happening now in the world of the "handy" wireless
telephone technology. For example: we've turned the
Bartholdi inside-out to reveal the hookup of the 1902
wireless telephone to the antenna affixed to the mast,
that made it possible to broadcast voices to the
shoreline.
During "our" March 20th
ship to shore Big BroadcastFest2002 demonstrations, a
simple cellular telephone, (called the "Handy™") --
will replace the 3 foot tall oak cabinet that housed the
original wireless telephone. Members of the Stubblefield
technical team conducting the broadcast, will all be
wearing tailor made three-piece black suits, topped off
with baseball caps turned backwards, and multicolored
running shoes. The "Handy™" wireless telephone
demonstration by Alden Stubblefield, Victor Caballero and
David MacFarlane, will be broadcast around the world
"live" via the "Handy™", radio, television and the
web.
Some see
Wireless Telephone Broadcast
as a challenge to Marconi's, undisputed icon
of the
"made in Italy" wireless Dot -- Dash telegraphy
claims. But Alden
denies it in an interview with Victor Caballero, a member
of the "Handy™" support team, and one of the
contributing authors of Network 40s, special eight page
spread about N.B. Stubblefield's several wireless
telephone radio inventions.
"I'm not taking on Marconi;
I'm not taking on anyone". Alden said his goal was simply
to make an impact on the first Wireless Ship to Shore
radio broadcast -- using a "Handy™".
"He has
no reason to worry", says Caballero.
"Whenever he shows off his
collection of his great-grandfathers work in progress
materials, Alden always receives standing ovations - with
ohs and awes". The documents include patent grants and
photos of Stubblefield demonstrating his wireless radio
telephone to members of Congress, Senator Conn Linn,
Nikola Tesla, Geo. Westinghouse, Frederick Collins, Maj.
Gen. Squire, Reginald Fessenden, "Honest Abe" White, and
some of the early day shakers at AT&T and Bell
Telephone.
Also in the mood for a show
of informative history at NATPE, Josie Cory, publisher of
TVI Magazine, presented a four volume set of books about
the SMART-DAAF Boys, that contains never seen photos
taken of the inventors of radio and television by the
Donaldson Studio of Georgetown, D.C. -- VRA TelePlay
Pictures matched TVI's exquisite book set, with their
four DVD set of D-Diaries programs about Nathan B.
Stubblefield and expose´ about the stock shenanigans
of the early day radio promoter, and who done it. The
items are sure to be the hit of the
March 20th Big
BroadcastFest2002 event. Both
items can be purchased at Amazon.com.
The DVDs harkens back to
the early 1900s, with film clips of Stubblefield walking
in Washington D.C. with an umbrella, heading to the
patent office. A Derby hat provocatively sits on his head
that matches the traditional high collared shirt under
his three piece, skin-tight suit and high capped
shoes.
Washington
D.C. in March will create a
perfect mixture of right and wrong.
Both
Clear Channel
Entertainments and webcaster
LookRadio.com
are famous for producing perfectly balanced programming
with just the right taste for good listen, innovation and
provocation, and this Big Broadcast show will be no
exception, says Alden.
Since 1992, the
Stubblefields have been trashing the glitz of the who
invented what in the world of radio with such
statements as "Marconi transmitted Dots and Dashes not
voice" and "when NAB hands out its Annual Marconi
Award, Eddie Fritz of NAB, slurs over -- that radio to
Marconi was telegraphy". It was in Murray, Kentucky,
in 1992 during the 100th year anniversary of the world's
first wireless broadcast in 1892, when we first
discovered as to the reasons why the locals referred to
Stubblefield as - "the Murray watermelon farmer" - who
lost millions, because he failed to patent his wireless
radio telephone invention. "Far is from the truth",
says
attorney, Scott Stubblefield, another great grandson of
Nathan. "Ask the family
members of Frederick Collins, the partner of
Stubblefield, as to what they did with the patent and
their Continental Wireless Tel&Tel stock
holdings?
What happened
then, is what's happening today -- witness the failure of
the Dot Com and Enron business environment, selling
"watered stock" certificates -- for promises of
wealth".
As for
how Alden will reconcile today's
wireless telephone digital
broadband "Handy™" shoptalk -- with the old wireless
telegraph/telephone jargon, Scott points out that in
1907, by the
"stroke of a pen", the lawyer
for Lee DeForest changed the name from Wireless Telephone
to Radio Telephone, to avoid infringement lawsuits -- to
sell Deforest Radio Telephone stock certificates.
Stubblefield family member
and inventor, David MacFarlane embraces the
"Stubblefield" inductive transmitting coil theory. His
partner, Tony Tucker of AET World, states that, "David's
audio webstreamer utilizes the same type of continuous
undamped electromagnetic wave source, patented by N.B.
Stubblefield in 1898 and 1907". Stubblefield's, 1902 new
"groundless aerial", -- was an integral part of his
battery energized wireless telephone unit. It operated
exactly like today's cell phone, except you didn't have
to dial a number", added MacFarlane.
MacFarlane's wireless
firewire Audio Webstreamer, made its European debut
showing last year during the "Made In Bavaria Webcast" --
featuring Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos and Elke Sommer.
The
Stubblefields are always quick to find new ways
to make money for others --
witness the success of
Stubblefield's wireless telephone patent granted on May
12, 1908. In 1926, Stubblefield's hindmost patent
expired, NBC was formed and President Coolidge signs the
Radio Bill. The next year, BBC cashed in on their
publicly financed stock issue, and the wireless brought
the "police," the two way radio. Today, every automobile
is lost without a radio or "Handy™".
In 1907,
Stubblefield came up with a melting pot
of different uses for his
wireless telephone. Radios for the home, train, the
horse carriage and a radio for the flying machine.
Today, radio stations are still utilizing the same
wireless AM radio induction/antenna system used by
Stubblefield to broadcast voice and music; the university
academia are teaching the same broadcasting theory to
their students as Stubblefield did at his
Telephono-del-green College, and the student is using the
"Handy™" to broadcast interactively between his/her
friends, just like Stubblefield and Rainey T. Wells did
in 1892, in Murray, Kentucky.
To underline their theme,
the Stubblefields use the letters in SMART-DAAF
Boys to denote and link the ardent radio boys that
grew-up to invent, develop, and put the pizzazz in Radio
and Television, all the way from and between:
Stubblefield,
Marconi, Ambrose Fleming, Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
DeForest, Alexandersen, Armstrong and
Farnsworth.
Scott said, "It's all
about finding your personality type."
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