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- PATENT
- Fessenden's U.S. Patent 948068 "Wireless
Telegraphy" (antenna tuning) Granted Feb. 1,
1910.
1910d
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PATENT - Lee De Forest's U.S. Patent 979,275 Patent
Granted "Oscillation Responsive Device" (parallel
plates in Bunsen flame) filed February 2, 1910,
issued December 20.1910.
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- George O. Squier (1865-1934). His invention of
"multiplexing" allowed telephone wires to carry
multiple messages for the first time; the carrier
frequency principle involved was later adapted to
other types of transmission, including FM
radio."
1910
- Mann-Elkins Act - Congress first vested federal
regulatory authority over telephone services in the
Interstate Commerce Commission, under this Act of
1910. This followed the practice of local
franchising initiated by states and municipalities
to control rates and service quality.
1910 - The daily calling average per 1,000 people
increased from 37 in 1895, to 391 in 1910.
1910 - There are now 5,883,000 telephones connected
to the Bell System. - AT&T acquires control of
30 percent of Western Union Telegraph Company stock
by purchase on December 20th.
1910 0624 - Congress approved amended "Act to
Require Apparatus and Operators for Radio
Communication on Certain Ocean Steamers." An act
approved July 24, 1910. An act approved by
Congress, July 23, 1912.
1910 al - Alexanderson enrolled in the famous
mathematician and electrical engineer Charles
Proteus Steinmetz' Consulting Engineering
Department, which afforded him still greater
opportunities to concentrate on continued work with
the alternator.
1910d - For the next+ plus years De Forest
broadcasted from points all over the world,
popularizing radio to the point that by the 1920s
many U.S. homes had their own "radio
sets."
1910d - In 1910, De Forest attempted the first live
broadcast from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
(starring Enrico Caruso).
1910do 0223 - Dies: Amos Emerson Dolbear
(1837-1910), on Feb. 23. Invented the first
telephone receiver with a permanent magnet in 1865,
11 years before Alexander Graham Bell patented his
model. In 1874 he was appointed professor of
physics and astronomy in Tuft's College, College
Hill, Massachusetts.
1910
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PATENT - Fessenden's U.S. Patent 974762
"Improvements in Wireless
Telegraphy"
Granted Nov. 1, 1910.
1910s - Bernard Stubblefield (23-years-old) took a
job as chief electrician in Nashville after having
been educated in the Nathan Stubblefield Industrial
School.
1910s - Died: Col. G. A. C. Holt, who rose to high
honors and fought with William Stubblefield (Capt.
Billy) in the Civil War, died in Memphis, Tenn. His
brother was the illustrious Calloway County
philosopher Duncan Holt, who was the father of
Felix Holt, author of "the Gabriel Horn" and
"Daniel Boone Kissed Me." He is buried in the
Bowman Cemetery, Murray, Ky, along with Capt.
Billy, the inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield and
other Stubblefield family members.
1910s - STUBBLEFIELD & SQUIER - Single Sideband
experiments conducted by Nathan B. Stubblefield and
Major George Squier. INSERT certain text.
1910s 1101- CONN LINN - RESIGNS FROM THE KENTUCKY
SENATE, and leaves Murray Kentucky, for
Oklahoma.
1910t - 1910 -1911, at the Waterside Power Station
in New York, several of Tesla's bladeless turbine
engines were tested at 100&endash;5000 hp.
1911
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1911al
-PATENT
- Alexanderson's 1008577 U.S. Patent Issued "High
frequency alternator (100 kHz)," filed April, 1909;
issued, November 14, 1911-
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1911 - The Bell System announces plans to
consolidate its associated operating companies into
state-wide or territorial units - the beginning of
the pre-Divestiture (1984) setup of operating
companies. - November 2nd marks the organization
meeting of the Telephone Pioneers of America at the
Hotel Somerset in Boston. Alexander Graham Bell and
246 members are present at the first meeting.
1911 - Young radio amateurs are building receivers
with whatever parts are available. Although
headphones can be purchased, many public telephone
booths become inoperative. 1911d
- DE FOREST's RADIO TELEPHONE COMPANY - BANKRUPT IN
1911, when it expired owing to De Forest's
inability to raise further
funds.
1911r - Hay Walker, Jr., and Thomas H. Given
dismissed Fessenden from NESCO in January of 1911.
Fessenden brought suit, won, and was awarded
damages. To conserve assets pending appeal, NESCO
went into receivership in 1912, and Samuel Kintner
was appointed general manager of the company.
Further work on Fessenden's alternator was given to
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson. It took years for
Alexanderson to develop an alternator capable of
transmitting regular voice transmissions over the
Atlantic, but by 1916 the Fessenden-Alexanderson
alternator was more reliable for transatlantic
communication than the spark apparatus.
1911 - Carnegie
establishes the Carnegie Corporation of New York
with his remaining money, about $150
million. He
intends that the corporation will promote the
advancement and diffusion of knowledge and
understanding by aiding college, university,
technical school and general scientific research.
This is the last philanthropic trust Carnegie
creates.
1911s - Ada Stubblefield operates and guards with
Clarissa Jones-Stubblefield, "The Nathan
Stubblefield Industrial School," renamed,
"Teléph-on-délgreen" on land that is
now the campus of Murray State University. (Lochte)
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1911s - Nathan Stubblefield. The long train ride
from his successful years in Washington, D.C., in
1911, gave Nathan the moments needed to reflect on
his own childhood and his father's untimely death
in 1874. Nathan, like his father, Capt. Billy, had
a premonition that his life was ending. To protect
his family's future, Nathan commoditized all of his
cash holdings and assets, to create a formal family
trust for his family to draw upon or even sell
periodically, -- as they saw fit.
1911s - STUBBLEFIELD & SQUIER - Single Sideband
experiments conducted by Nathan B. Stubblefield and
Major George Squier. INSERT certain text. 1911s
0101 - PATENTS: GEORGE O. SQUIER - (Patents Expire
1928) - All of-Gen. Squier's discoveries and
inventions -- some he worked on with Stubblefield
and Collins -- were patented in the name of the
People of the United States. Stubblefield's
1898 and 1908 WiFi and WiFi patents were not
included in the People's
patents.
1911s 0103 - Major George Squier. Popular
Electricity "The Coming of the Multiplex Telephone,
By William C. Ward.
1911s 0517 - United Wireless Trial - May 17, 1911 -
Bogart pleads guilty.
1911s 0518 - N. B. Stubblefield returns to
Washington, D.C. with Miss Pattie on May 18, 1911.
Nathan meets with Gen. George Squier, prior to
Squier's plans to turn over certain patent rights
to the People of the United States. In exchange for
certain transfers, Nathan agrees to accept Squier's
offer for the patent to the aircraft and wireless
radio system. See 1912 - Flying Machine Patent, May
15. (Filed Jan. 19) GRANTED Dec. 10.
1911s 0723 - United Wireless - Bankrupt. On July
23, 1911, United Wireless was adjudicated bankrupt
in the Courts of Maine, and on September 15, 1911,
Trustees in Bankruptcy were appointed.
1911 - May 15: The U.S. Supreme Court announces its
decision to dismantle Standard Oil. The company is
ordered to divest itself of its subsidiaries within
six months.
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1912 0119 -PATENT
FILED: Stubblefield's U.S. Patent Number 1046895,
Flying Machine, Filed Jan. 19, 1912, Granted
December 10,
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1912s
1210 - PATENT
GRANTED: Stubblefield's U.S. Patent Number 1046895,
Flying Machine, Filed Jan. 19, 1912, Granted
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Letters Patent
granted Stubblefield for 17 years from December 10,
1912 (expired Dec. 10,
1929). Applied in
the name of son Bernard.
1912s 1225 - Nathan B. Stubblefield writes "An
Elegy "The New Kentucky Home," a parody on "My Old
Kentucky Home", under the pseudonym Oliver C. De
Lisle, on Dec. 25, 1909, in Murray, Kentucky.
(About the Night Riders.)
1911s
12 - COLLINS INDICTED - December 1911. Four
officers of the Continental Co. excepting Walter
Massie were indicted for using the mails to defraud
in selling worthless
stock.
1912 - Dissolution of Teleph-on-delgreen, Murray,
Kentucky. Public Notice, May 6.
1912 - John H. Hammond, Jr. develops equipment to
remotely control vessels by radio up to three miles
away. Later, many of his patents were sold to the
U.S. military for use in radio guidance in weapons
delivery systems.
1912 0623 - Congress passed the first Radio Act in
1912 but it was not until the Radio Act of 1927
that the new medium was brought under federal
control. During the 1920s, Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover convened a series of conferences
intended to deal with the extraordinary growth of
radio as an industry and a fledgling advertising
medium.
Congress passes the Radio Act to prevent amateur
radio operators from interfering with government
frequency spectrum stations. "an Act to require
apparatus and operators for radio communication on
certain ocean steamers." An act approved July 23,
1912, and the amended act approved June 24,
1910.
1912 0813 - "Act to regulate state by state radio
communication" (Public 264)(S. 6412); approved Aug.
13, 1912.
1912ar - Edwin Armstrong invents regeneration.
"Edwin Armstrong found the radio telephone talking
like a hair-lipped man and left it singing like a
nightingale." The ocean liner, "Titanic" hits an
iceberg and sinks. The Dit Dah wireless distress
call (63 k Wav spark transmitter) was heard 58
miles away by the liner "Carpathia". Those who made
it into lifeboats were rescued 3 1/2 hours later.
There were 705 lives saved.
1912d - In 1912, De Forest developed a feedback
circuit, which would increase the output of a radio
transmitter and produce alternating current. He
didn't see the worth of his discovery, though, and
by the time he applied for a patent in 1915,
1912d 03 - A Warrant Was Served De Forest For His
Arrest In March, 1912 - on a federal indictment
charging him with use of the mails to defraud in
connection with sales of stock in the most recent
four of his radio telephone companies.
1912m - Marconi invents a new way to generate a
continuous wave, known as the Multiple Spark
System.
1912m - Marconi's legacy should be seen across
modern civilization wherever one of Tesla's
land-line high-voltage electricity utility was
connected to a Marconi 200' antenna tower to
transmit RF spark Dit Dah signals to a like -
receiver 200' antenna tower located on a ship or
land station. 1912m
0325 - MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO. VS. UNITED
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO. Creates a Merger.
1912m 0325 - United Wireless Co. - In March, 1912,
United Wireless Pleaded No contest - and was taken
over by the British Marconi Co. for the payment of
$700,000. The company was immediately sold to
American Marconi.
1912r
- Bankruptcy. Reginald Fessenden's company,
National Electric Signaling Company (NESC), went
bankrupt. 1912r
- Monetary award - Fessenden in 1912 was awarded
$406,175 in the United States District Court at
Boston in a suit against the National Electric
Signaling Company.
-- The award was not
only the largest ever given up to that time in
Massachusetts, but was notable in bringing out the
history of the Boston inventor's pioneer work in
wireless telegraph and telephony. FOR MORE STORY
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1912s - Gen. Squire. As a result, it is still
rumored to this date -- that the General had
improperly enriched himself by pocketing several
important claims for his personal benefit. "The
Flying Machine" patent was issued to my uncle
Bernard Stubblefield - in November, 1912. About the
same time, Squier introduced the sideband idea to
Bell," said Troy. -- MORE STORY
1912s
- Stubblefield Legacy can be seen across modern
civilization wherever a low-voltage current is used
to operate a Wireless Telephone or lap-top
computer within a WiFi or Wi-Max HotSpots to
transmit voice and messages through space or
land-lines. The
NBS system extends itself even a little further, in
that the portable NBS hand-held phone can imitate
the tasks of being both a power source and RF
transmitter that has the ability to connect its
signal to a 200' tower of a Radio or Television
station. Aside from his work on electric motors
that generate low-voltage currents, Nathan is said
to have contributed in varying degrees to the
fields of ballistics, computer science,
electromagnetism. His all-in-one patent include the
utility to connect his Wireless Telephone
into a local land-line telephone or DSL
cable/satellite subscriber with a telephone
number.
1912s 06 - Nathan Franklin Stubblefield, son of
inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield, emancipated at 17
years of age.
1912s 0820 -
PATENT: Bernard Stubblefield's Patent
application for "Combined Automotive
Lamp."
1912t - Tesla's legacy can be seen across modern
civilization wherever a land-line AC high-voltage
electricity utility is connected to a home or
office to power your radio, television or other
ancillary devices plugged into wall sockets.
1913
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1913 - Clarence Tuska receives his first Dit Dah
Amateur Station and Commercial Operators
License.
1913 - Nathan Stubblefield appoints Holt as his
attorney in case N. B. Stubblefield vs. B. B.
Stubblefield, Victoria Stubblefield, Pattie L.
Stubblefield.
1913 - Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth U.S.
President, 1913-1921. (b. December 28, 1856 in
Staunton, Virginia, d. February 3, 1924 in
Washington D.C.). Married to Ellen Louise Axson
Wilson and to Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1913 0708 - London International Radiotelegraphic
Convention, proclaimed by the President July 8,
1913.
1913 1213 - AT&T commits to the Attorney
General to dispose of its telegraph stock, provide
long distance connection to Independent telephone
systems and not to purchase any more independent
telephone companies except as approved by the
Interstate Commerce Commission. This letter from
AT&T to the Attorney General of the U.S. is
referred to as the "Kingsbury Commitment".
1913 1213 - Events that effected Regulatory RF
Seizures. Kingsbury Commitment. On December 13,
1913, AT&T's Kingsbury Commitment" was accepted
by the U.S. Attorney General and approved by the
Interstate Commerce Commission. This "Kingsbury
Commitment," restricted the use and sale of
Stubblefield's wireless radio frequencies. April 6,
1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany. All
commercial and amateur wireless stations were
closed down and came under the control of the U.S.
Navy; The U.S. Sedition Act United States, a
portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the
Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, can be seen below.
See Byline Story; President Woodrow Wilson on July
31, 1918, under authority of a joint resolution of
Congress -- took control of the telephone and
telegraph systems in the United States, placing
them under the direction of the Post Office
Department; GOVERNMENT REGULATION - 1922. The
administration of the broadcasting industry
regulations was entrusted to the U.S. Department of
Commerce; RADIO ACT OF 1927 - the pace setter for
the FCC; and; 1934 - FCC form - Congress created
the Federal Communications Commission in 1934; 1996
- Congress deregulates telephone monopolies. The
Telecommunications Act of 1996. Congress authorizes
the FCC to sell the Stubblefield Wireless Telephone
(spectrums) -- frequencies.
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1913
1213 - The "Kingsbury Commitment." American
Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) began buying up
rivals. But
AT&T's acquisitions troubled federal
authorities, which began considering antitrust
action. This prompted AT&T's company officials
to propose, a self-serving anti-monopoly unit, that
subsequently became known as the "Kingsbury
Commitment." On December 19, 1913, AT&T agreed
to sell $30 million of its Western Union stock and
to allow competitors to interconnect with its
network. The company also pledged that for every
new local system acquired, it would sell an equal
share of lines to rivals. The Kingsbury Commitment
was wholly in keeping with the monopolizing of both
wired and wireless strategy of AT&T; and the
preserving of consumer confidence by the use of
Takeovers; Buyouts; and mergers of troubled
competitive "look-a-likes".
1913ar - Armstrong applies for a patent to use a
vacuum tube as an oscillator. A station in Nauen,
Germany begins broadcasting on 16,900 meters...or
about 18 kilocycles (just above the range of
hearing!) Station FL, broadcasting from the Eiffel
Tower begins broadcasting on 10,000 meters.
1913d
07 - PATENT: De Forest Sells Audion Patent Rights
to AT&T - for
$50,000.
1913d 1230 - De Forest - Fraud Trial of De Forest
Ends - Darby and De Forest: nolle prosequi, meaning
that the charges had been dropped.
1913r
0422 - PATENT - Fessenden's U.S. Patent 1059665"Wireless Telegraphy" (antenna tuning) Granted
April 22.
1913s - Between 1913-1928 - Stubblefield's business
partners ultimately irreparably damaged his
developments and left him bankrupt. Stubblefield
later lived in a self-imposed isolation near Almo,
Kentucky and eventually, starved to death. Any and
all copies of Stubblefield's prototypes were part
of the franchise agreement he made with various
companies such as Wireless Telegraph Co. Of
America. CLICK FOR MORE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT
1913s - Collins And Four Officers - Convicted On
All Five Counts For Stock Fraud. Three were fined
and sentenced on January 10, 1913, to prison terms
of up to four years. (See 1911, Continental).
1913s
- COLLINS WIRELESS TELEPHONE COMPANY -
Dissolves.
1913s
- Dissolution of the Nathan B. Stubblefield
Industrial School on
Teleph-on-delgreen.
1913s - During the Calloway County Fair, Thomas
Brady astonishes Callowayans with his airship
flight, not a balloon but a graceful biplane,
however, scarcely attained the heights described in
the advance literature but did clear the housetops
and trees - barely. "The Story of Calloway County"
(Stubblefield patented his "Flying Machine Patent
in 1912).
1913s - Nathan B. Stubblefield as a writer, defines
crow's feet as follows: "Those picturesque, lovely,
time made dimply, furrowy, marks of venerableness,
that carry the sadness of life away from the sunny
slopes of childhood's lustrous innocencies.
1913s
- Nathan B. Stubblefield forms his NBS Family
Trust.
1913s - Nathan Stubblefield initiates Family Trust
lawsuit against his children.
1913s - Nathan Stubblelfield appoints A. Thomspon,
son of law partner of his late father, Capt. Billy
as his attorney in lawsuit against family.
1913s - New Murray Court house cornerstone layed.
5000 Callowayans gathered to hear a stirring
address by R. T. Wells. Old courthouse was built in
1873.
1913s - The city of Murray brightened up with the
installation of 60 watt light bulbs at all resident
street intersections with all night service. The
business section was illuminated with a new White
Way attached to iron posts erected at 60 locations.
"The Story of Calloway County," Published by Kerby
and Dorothy Jennings.
1913s - The Fate of
"Teléph-on-délgreen." Rainey T.
Wells, lead the group that purchased the 85 acres
Teléph-on-délgreen Institute from
Nathan Family Trust in 1913. In a property
settlement of 1914, Nathan had to move. (Nathan
then lived on for another 14 years).
1913s 0301 - Promissory Note from Bernard
Stubblefield, Nashville, TN to Richland Realty
Company.
1913s 0808 - Warranty Deed to Bernard Stubblefield,
Aug. 8, for Lot 220 & 221, Central Ave.,
Murray.
1913s 1025 - Nathan B. Stubblefield Journal Notes
regarding his Trust lawsuit against children.
1913s 1029 - Rainey T. Wells, Attorney for Nathan
B. Stubblefield in pending case of Nathan B.
Stubblefield against his children, writes letter to
Bernard on Oct. 29. "From the 85 acre tract of
land, Nathan wants $3,430.00 and 1 acre of the land
from the children."
1913s 1105 - Retainer of Attorney. Nathan B.
Stubblefield retains Atty. A. D. Thompson, of Cook
& Thompson in Case N. B. Stubblefield vs. B. B.
Stubblefield, Victoria Stubblefield, Pattie L.
Stubblefield.
1913t
- PATENT EXPIRES: Nikola Tesla's 1896 Synchronous
And Non-synchronous Rotary Gaps Patent Expires. The
antenna at the Marconi site at Louisbourg was about
1 kilometer long, and was supported by six tubular
steel towers over 3000 ft. high.
1913t - Tesla is granted two new patents for a
turbine and a pump constructed on a new
1913 - Dies. J.P. Morgan. That panic led to the
creation of the FRS in 1913, the same year J.P.
Morgan died on March 31, while visiting Rome,
Italy. His remains were returned to the United
States for interment in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in
his birthplace of Hartford, Connecticut. His son,
Jack, known as J.P. Morgan, Jr., Jack. P. Morgan,
Jr., inherited the banking business.
1913 - Federal Reserve System is created.
1914
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1914 - Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in
Sarajevo, by a Serbian nationlist group called the
"Black Hand."
1914 - The First World War.The Austro-Hungarian
government demanded that Serbia bring the assassin
of Archduke Ferdinand to justice and requested
support from their German allies. When Serbia
declined, Germany declard War on Sarajevo assuming
a limited engagment to bring the assassins to
justice.
Russia, bound by treaty to Serbia, declared war
against Austro-Hungary.
Germany, allied to Austro-Hungary, declared war on
Russia on August 1, 1914.
France, having a treaty with Russia delared war on
Germany on August 3, 1914.
Britain, allied with France, declared war on
Germany on August 4, 1914 along with her colonies
of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and S.
Africa.
Japan, with a military agreement with Britain,
declared war on Germany on Agust 23, 1914.
Italy, although allied to both Germany and
Austro-Hungary, ultimatel joined the conflict
against Germany and Austro-Hungary, in May
1915.
America remained neutral for serveral years, but
with the threat against its British and French
allies and the threat against U.S. supply shipping
to its allies in German occupied submarine waters,
finally declared war agains Germany in April
1917.
1914 - According to the records, in January Hiram
Percy Maxim called to order the first meeting of
the Radio Club of Hartford. Some 23 members in
attendance. By March the attendance grew to 35
members. It was then that H.P.M. had the idea that
messages could be relayed over great distances. In
order to accomplish this, a network would have to
be set up across the country. With this in mind,
the American Radio Relay League was adopted and
formed. In October, the newly formed league
published its first call book which listed some 400
dit dahs stations in 33 states and Canada.
1914 - AT&T sells its holdings of Western Union
Telegraph Company stock to comply with the
"Kingsbury Commitment." On June 17th, the last pole
of the transcontinental telephone line placed at
Wendover, Utah on the Nevada, Utah state line.
1914 - Hiram Percy Maxim founds the A.R.R.L.
American Radio Relay League. War breaks out in
Europe, and Amateur licenses are suspended in
almost all foreign countries.
1914 - In the spring a small group of young
Amateurs were using short ranged spark coils. 1914 0815 - Panama Canal
Opens. After 13 years, since approved by the
McKinley Administration, the opening took place.
Service through the waterway to world commerce on
August 15, 1914, represented the realization of a
heroic dream of over 400 years. Together the French
and American expenditures totaled $639,000,000. It
took 34 years from the initial effort in 1880 to
actually open the Canal in 1914. It is estimated
that over 80,000 persons took part in the
construction and that over 30,000 lives were lost
in both French and American efforts. *(See
Footnote.) *28 Panama Canal.
1914al - Alexanderson - Patented Regenerative
Circuit, and which was subsequently patented by Lee
De Forest in 1916; De Forest then sold the rights
to his patent to AT&T.
1914m
0430 -PATENT
FILED - Marconi's U.S.
Patent 1,271,190, Marconi "Wireless Telegraphy
Transmitter" Filed April 30, 1914, Issued July
2, 1918.CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT
1914D
0630 - PATENT FILED - Lee De Forest's U.S. Patent
1,101,533 Patent Granted "Wireless Telegraphy"
(directional antenna/direction finder), filed
June 20 1906, Granted June 30,
1914.
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1914ar
1029 - PATENT
- Armstrong's U.S. Patent 1,113,149 "Wireless
Receiving System" Filed Oct. 29, 1913, Granted
October 6, 1914.
CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT.
1914m - Marconi built WCC in Chatham,
Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. It would become the
busiest ship to shore radio station for most of the
twentieth century. WCC was sold during the breakup
of RCA in the 1990s to MCI, and was finally shut
down in 1997. In its final years on the Cape, WCC
was operated remotely over a fiber optic link right
down to such details as antenna adjustments and
frequency tuning from California's KPH. It ended
life on Cape Cod with a two-man crew. A film
documentary of this chapter of Marconi's career was
produced. It was narrated by journalist Walter
Cronkite and directed by filmmaker Christopher
Seufert. The callsign WCC is still heard over the
radio from Globe Wireless's automated radio-based
email system from a new location in Maryland.
1914m - Marconi experiments successfully using the
triode thermionic valve; this was the birth of dit
dah radiophony.
1914m - Marconi was both created a Senatore in the
Italian Senate and appointed Honorary Knight Grand
Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in England.
1914m - Marconi was commissioned in the Italian
Army as a Lieutenant being later promoted to
Captain, and in 1916 transferred to the Navy in the
rank of Commander. He was a member of the Italian
Government mission to the United States in 1917 and
in 1919 was appointed Italian plenipotentiary
delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. He was
awarded the Italian Military Medal in 1919 in
recognition of his war service.
1914m
-PATENT
EXPIRES - Marconis U.S. Patent 0586193"Transmitting
Electrical Signals", (using Ruhmkorff coil and
Morse code key) filed Dec. 7, 1896, granted July
13, 1897.CLICK
TO VIEW PATENT
1914r - At the outbreak of World War I, Fessenden
volunteered his services to Canada, went to London,
and developed a device to detect enemy artillery
and another to locate enemy submarines. But the
military bureaucracy was not interested in pursuing
many of his ideas.
1914
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PATENT - Fessenden's U.S. Patent 1108895 "Signaling
by Sound and Other Longitudinal Elastic
Impulses" Granted Sept. 1,
1914.
1914s - Between 1914-1915 , N. B. Stubblefield, his
wife Ada Mae and youngest daughter, Helen lived on
308 Oakdale Drive, Murray, Kentucky.
1914s - Murray High School announced the
installation of a telephone.
1914s - Murray, Kentucky. T. R. Jones gained
passage of a measure in the Kentucky General
Assembly advancing Murray from a fifth class city
to fourth class.
1914s - N. B. Stubblefield, Ada and Helen lived on
Foster's land between Feb. 1914 and Jan. 1,
1915.
1914s - One of the many fires over the years, a
destructive blaze burnt the James Carter home
(Nathan B. Stubblefield place) on North 16th
street.
1914s
- PATENT: Bernard Stubblefield was granted patent
for headlight.
1914s
- The NBS Trust of 1914, handed over to Bernard,
the 23-year-old son of Nathan, all of the NBS
stock which represented equity in such
illustrious early- day inventors as Stubblefield,
Marconi, Alexanderson, Reginald Fessenden, Tesla,
De Forest, Ambrose Fleming, and Armstrong, all
members of the SMART-DAAF group.
1914s 0217 - N. B. Stubblefield's lawsuit against
children settled, on February 17.
1914s
0217 - Stubblefield Property Settlement. Grantors
Ada Mae Stubblefield and children, Nathan Franklin,
Oliver and Helen Stubblefield received title to
land, recorded in deed book 32 page 496 in Calloway
County.
1914t
1201 - PATENT - Tesla's U.S. Patent 1,119,732
378Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical
Energy, Filed Jan. 18, 1902, Granted Dec.
1, 1914.
1914t - Tesla started to exhibit pronounced
symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the
years following. He became obsessed with the number
three; he often felt compelled to walk around a
block three times before entering a building,
demanded a stack of three folded, cloth napkins
beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of
OCD was little understood at the time and no
treatments were available, so his symptoms were
considered by some to be evidence of partial
insanity
1914t -1918 - Following the same principle, Tesla
constructs his speed indicators, gets patents for
them, sells them to Waltham Watch Company and
achieves commercial success with
them.