Father
- Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, Born: Nov. 27, in
Murray, Ky.
Son of
William Jefferson Stubblefield (Capt. Billy)
1830-1874 and Victoria Bowman. Victoria died at age
32 of Scarlet Fever. Nathan is buried near his
father and mother in the Bowman cemetery founded by
her father. CHILDREN
OF NATHAN B. STUBBLEFIELD AND ADA
MAE: 1883
Frederic (died 6 mos old 1884)
1885 Carrie F. / No Children
1887 - 1973 Bernard Bowman -- Nickname:
Bernie / No Children
1890 Pattie Lee / No Children
1892 Victoria Edison / No Children
1895 Nathan Franklin / No Children 1897 - 1964 Oliver J. -- Nickname: RayJack
Father of / Keith (Troy) Stubblefield.
1901 Helen Joe / No Children
1905 William Tesla (died 17 mos old 1906)
02 -
NATHAN
B. STUBBLEFIELD -- (1860-1928)
Wireless Telephony -- AM radio Firewire -
1892 -- 1902 All-in-One Radio Patent -- 1908 Nine
Years Before Smart-Daaf Boys Marconi and
Deforest
mastered sending Dit Dahs around the family home in Italy, and DeForest
finished his studies at Yale, Nathan Stubblefield
was the patent holder and owner of his own
mechanical telephone, telephone company and
telephone system. By 1892, Nathan's vibrating phone
could transmit voice without wires from grounded
electromagnetic wave energy, then through the
atmosphere to a companion receiver. It was the
17-year-old Rainey T. Wells (b. Dec. 25, 1875, d.
June 15, 1958) who attentively heard his first
words over a wireless telephone in 1892, at
Teléph-on-délgreen, now Murray State
University.
03
Fifteen
years later, Rainey, now a judge in
the Kentucky Calloway Court system, opened his 1907
Christmas Day birthday toast with the truism that
most legal scholars quote on the first day in law
school, to keep a step or two ahead of the
freshman. "De minimis non curat lex" ("The law does
not concern itself with trifles").
-----By 1898, Nathan's portable telephone could
transmit voice as far as one mile through the
atmosphere &endash; by means of his newly patented
firewire, "electrolytic coil aerial" and a special
loop antenna connected to his
transmitter.
-----But
So What!
Shortly
after receiving his earth electrolytic
battery patent, (1898)
-- Nathan commenced selling franchises to various
investors, to help finance and market his wireless
demonstrations held in Philadelphia, New York and
Washington, D.C., in 1902. He used the orchards
around his Teléph-on-délgreen
Industrial School, and the lawn surrounding of the
Court house in Murray to display different uses for
his telephone and wireless system. *(See Footnote.)
* .
-----By leaving a remote wireless receiver on
overnight, sitting in the barn, the unit operated
as a wireless microphone and listening surveillance
system. The electricity being emitted from the
earth was an unlimited free flowing uni-directional
stream of electricity, which never switched off and
did not diminish with the time of day or length of
use. These little coils had the ability to convert
an electric current into alternating
radio-frequency waves when passing through a field
of action created by the human voice.
*(See
Footnote, John
Hopi.)
-----These series of pulses which varied in
strength, (amplitude) &endash; could then be
transmitted through the atmosphere by a coil aerial
placed near the field of action, to one or more
companion wireless systems. One unit was designed
with output sockets to connect to the local Murray
telephone exchange for wired online broadcasting.
(See
Chapter 05, "The Phony Craze" -- for more
details.)
