1923m
- Marconi joined the Italian Fascist party. Benito
Mussolini made Marconi President of the Accademia
d'Italia, which also made him a member of the
Fascist Grand Council. He made Fascist speeches on
the radio in a number of countries.
1923s - First Grandchild Of Nathan B. Stubblefield
born: Jacqueline Stubblefield to Oliver
Stubblefield and Priscilla Alden Stubblefield,
followed by Natalie Olive Mae, then Keith
(Troy). FOR MORE STORY SOULFIND
1923s - MSU - By the fall of 1923 no buildings were
as yet ready on the raw new campus of Murray State,
so this institution of higher learning also got its
start at the school's new auditorium on Eighth and
Main. During those first few months the new
auditorium echoed with the sound of many
university-level activities.
1923s
0510 - Brief History of the Stubblefield ancestry
by Nathan B. Stubblefield at Almo, Kentucky.
FOR
MORE STORY
SOULFIND
1924 - Alexanderson was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
1924 - The present A.M. band is assigned. It spans
550-1550 kilocycles. President Coolidge's cat is
lost...and found with the help of Radio. Over 1400
stations are now broadcasting. It is estimated that
over 3 million radio sets are in use in the United
States. Baseball games are broadcast almost daily.
New radios - superhets, reflex sets, TRF's, and
neutrodynes are much more complex, so a new
industry begins to take shape - the radio
repairman. Atwater Kent manufactured automotive and
electrical parts before he got into radios. It does
kind of resemble an oil pan. I found this under a
counter next to some car parts at a second hand
shop. I learned about Tuned Radio Frequency
receivers while restoring this, and also of the
joys of crinkle varnish. (By the way...Hi-Fidelity,
it is not).
1924
- Wired Radio: Muzak. Shortly before George O.
Squier's retirement in 1924, he turned his
attention to a new application of the transmission
technologieshe helped to
develop: piped-in
music. His idea led to the establishment in 1922 of
the music service Wired Radio, which is much better
known by its present name, given it by Squier
shortly before his death: Muzak."
1924al - On June 5, 1924, the first wireless
telegraph picture was transmitted across the
Atlantic. This was a handwritten page from a letter
from Ernst Alexanderson to his father, Professor
Alexanderson, in Sweden.
1924d - PATENT
- Lee De Forest's Sound on Film patent
granted. He tried
to interest the film industry in his technology.
Hollywood didn't start talking until 1927, when The
Jazz Singer appeared in theaters as the first
feature-length "talkie" using a method different
from De Forest's work. Ironically, the industry
later reverted to the sound method De Forest first
proposed.
1924t - As Tesla neared his 80th birthday, the
Foundation of the Tesla Institute was opened in
Belgrade, supported by the Yugoslav Government, who
gave him a honorarium of $7,000 a year. Today there
is a Museum in his honor in Belgrade.
1925
- John Logic Baird, Scottish inventor earned his
place in history when he first demonstrates his
mechanical television system at London Department
store Selfridges & Co.
Though his system
of mecanical spinning discs amounted to little more
than moving silhouettes, it was a start. By the
early 30s radio enthusiasts could buy kits to build
Baird's "Televisor" receivers to pick up perodic
Baird Studio/BBC telecasts. Those programs usually
consited of a 30 line picture with sound.
1925 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
released statistics indicating that of the
26,000,000 homes in the United States, 5,000,000,
or 19.2 percent, had radio receivers, though the
number of broadcast listeners was estimated at
20,000,000. In his Historical Dictionary of the
1920s (1988), James S. Olson notes that sales of
radio went from $60 million in 1922 to $843 million
in 1929. It is estimated that by 1929,
approximately 35 to 40 percent of American families
owned radios, and the number ran considerably
higher, in some cases up to 75 percent, in both
wealthy suburban and larger metropolitan areas.
1925
- AT&T establishes Bell Telephone Laboratories
Inc. as its research and development
subsidiary.
1925
- Fessenden filed suit for $60,000,000 against the
Radio Corporation of America, The American
Telephone & Telegraph Company, the General
Electric Company, the Westinghouse
Electricand
Manufacturing
Company, the
Western Electric Company Inc, the International
Radio Telegraph Company, the United Fruit Company
and the wireless Specialty Appliance Company. His
contempt for the leaders of "Big Business" and
their methods is well-known. He has yet to back
down in a fight with Wall Street, of which he has
had quite a few.
1925al - Alexanderson became a Knight of the Order
of the Northern Star, and, also in that year, a
Knight of the Polish order of Polonia Restituta.
These are only a few examples of the distinctions
he received over the years.
1925d
- PATENT EXPIRES: De Forest's 1908 Audion Patent
Number Three, #879, 532 Covering the Device as a
Detector, expires.
1925s
0512 - PATENT EXPIRES: Stubblefield's 1908 Radio
Patent Expires, May 12, 1925. Stubblefield's All
Purpose Wireless Telphone Patent Number 887,357 was
Filed April 5, 1907 and Granted May 12, 1908.CLICK FOR
MOREGo To NBS 1928 0328
- DEATH OF Nathan B. Stubblefield.
1926
- NBC - Organized By The General Electric
Company.
The Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company and The Radio
Corporation of America, by purchasing WEAF in 1926,
undertook the management of WJZ and WRC, both of
which were owned by the Radio Corporation of
America.
1926 - Radio Bill. On February 23, President
Coolidge signs the Dill&endash;White Radio Bill
creating the Federal Radio Commission and ending
chaos caused by wild growth of broadcasting.
1926 - The BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation is
granted a Royal Charter.
1926 - The first 'light socket' powered sets are
marketed. RCA, Westinghouse and GE start a
network...NBC, the National Broadcasting
Corporation. A U.S. court decides that the
Secretary of Commerce has no power to regulate
broadcasting - only to issue licenses, and the
chaos on the broadcast bands grows as stations
increase power to drown out the competition. David
Sarnoff is named vice president of RCA. The BBC,
British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal
Charter.
1926
- TWO-WAY MOBILE RADIO - The Detroit Michigan
police department, became the first to dispatch
police squad cars, by
radio. These
two-way radios operated in the 30 to 40 mc brands.
Over 400 cities followed the trends by the year
1935.
1926 11 - RCA formed NBC as a wholly-owned
subsidiary. Shortly thereafter, RCA added a second
network, and the two networks were designated
NBC-Red and NBC-Blue.
1926af - Fleming remained at University College
until retirement in 1926. He retired to the quiet
seaside town of Sidmouth in Devon. Although he
retained the position of his Marconi consultancy
almost to the day he died.
1926al - Alexanderson sent the first facsimile
transmission to go around the world. Passing
through successive relays, the picture was
reproduced on machine in the same room as the
transmitter after just two minutes.
1926al -PATENT
FILED - Alexanderson's 1,723,908 U.S. Patent Filed
"Ignition System," (RFI suppressor), Patent filed
June, 1926; issued August,
1929.CLICK
TO VIEW PATENT
1926d - De Forest Predictions: "To place a man in a
multi-stage rocket and project him into the
controlling gravitational field of the moon where
the passengers can make scientific observations,
perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all
that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules
Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made
voyage will never occur regardless of all future
advances."
1926d - De Forest Predictions: De Forest made many
correct predictions, including microwave
communication and cooking, like "While
theoretically and technically television may be
feasible, commercially and financially it is an
impossibility."
1926f - Farnsworth while still in high school, he
conceived the basic requirements for television and
in his third year at Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah, he began research into the process of
picture transmission.
1926f - In 1926, at the age of 20, Farnsworth
cofounded Crocker Research laboratories, to market
his electronic television camera tube, he had just
applied a patent for. The camera tube later became
known as an image dissector.
The camera tube created an image
by producing an electronic signal that corresponded
to the brightness of the objects being televised.
Farnsworth demonstrated the image dissector in
1927.
1926r
- PATENT
- Fessenden's U.S. Patent 1576735"Infusor"
(for making tea) Granted March 16, 1926.
1926s - Rainey T. Wells became president of Murray
State College, 1926 through 1933.
1926s
1020 - PATENT EXPIRES: Stubblefield's Canadian 1908
Patent #114,737 - Expires October 20, 2926. Same as
Stubblefield's assigned patent to Frederick Collins
for the Wireless Telephone in the U.S.A.
1926t - Tesla, at his 70th birthday dinner put on
in his honor in New York, he described his wireless
system and, of all things -- a death ray he had
invented! He claimed his system was capable of
communicating with the planets. -- Not only was
Tesla a hopeless businessman, but also he was
pretty careless with money. John O'Neil summed up
his problem, saying that he lacked the personality
(and character) that made possible the securing of
financial returns directly from his inventions.
Throughout most of his life, he lived in hotels,
the Alta Vista at Colorado Springs, the Waldorf
Astoria in New York, until he was thrown out for
not paying his bills. He moved on from hotel to
hotel, often with other people picking up the bill
behind his back.
1927 - BBC - The British Broadcasting corporation
(BBC), a publicly financed corporation ultimately
responsible to parliament but in practice enjoying
a considerable degree of independence, was given,
by its original charter in 1927, a monopoly
covering all phases of broadcasting in Britain.
1927 - Between 1927-1935, 52 different inventions
in electricity were introduced to the GE company by
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah. FOR MORE STORY.
1927 - Legislation curtails spark-gap
transmissions.
1927 - New York and London - linked by
radiotelephone. Three decades later, more than 120
countries and territories could be reached from the
United States by radio and under ocean telephone
cable.
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1927 1927
- RADIO ACT OF 1927 - The situation became chaotic
with many stations choosing their own frequencies,
and operating almost independently of any
government regulation, until congress enacted the
Radio Act of
1927;This legislative
act remains the cornerstone of American television
policy six decades after its initial passage.
Though often updated through amendments, and itself
based on the pioneering Radio Act of 1927, the 1934
legislation which created the Federal
Communications Commission has endured remarkably
well through an era of dramatic technical and
social change; Congress first specifically
regulated broadcasting with its 1927 Radio Act
which created a Federal Radio Commission designed
to regulate in "the public interest, convenience,
or necessity." But federal regulation of
communications was shared by the Department of
Commerce and the Interstate Commerce Commission. By
1934 pressure to consolidate all telecommunication
regulation for both wired and wireless services
prompted new legislation with a broader
purpose.
1927 - Televisions are being sold in kit form. The
FRC, Federal Radio Commission begins to regulate
broadcasting. Their first act was to revoke all
licenses, and then assign frequencies and power
levels.
1927 - The 1927 International Radiotelegraph
Conference also allocated frequency bands to the
various radio services in existence at the time
(fixed, maritime and aeronautical mobile,
broadcasting, amateur and experimental), to ensure
greater efficiency of operation in view of the
increase in the number of radiocommunication
services and the technical peculiarities of each
service.
1927
0201 - CBS (Colmbia Broadcasting System) Founded,
January 27, 1927.
Will the history of Radio stock failures Repeat
itself in the world of Computer Broadcasting?
1927 0918 - COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM GOES ON
THE AIR on September 18, 1927, with a basic network
of 16 stations. Major J. Andrew White is president.
The Columbia Broadcasting System originated in 1927
as an outgrowth of the United Independent
Broadcasters and the Columbia Phonograph
Broadcasting System.
1927al - Alexanderson staged the first home
reception of television at his own home in
Schenectady, New York, using high-frequency neon
lamps and a perforated scanning disc. On January
13, 1928, the first television play was
transmitted, and the television transmissions from
"Alex's lab" at General Electric were received and
shown on a screen measuring roughly 2x2 meters with
the aid of Alexanderson's new TV projector.
1927al
-PATENT
- Alexanderson's 1,775,801 U.S. Patent Filed "Radio
Signaling System" (directional antenna), filed
November 1927, issued September 16, 1930.CLICK
TO VIEW PATENT
1927d - The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length
"talkie" produced. But they didn't use De Forest's
patent, using a method different from de Forest's
work. Ironically, the industry later reverted to
the sound method De Forest first proposed.
1927f - Farnsworth, in 1927, formed, Farnsworth
Television, Inc. (1929) which later known as
Farnsworth Radio and Television Corporation (1938).
All of these corporations stemmed from his first
company which he cofounded in 1926, the Crocker
Research laboratories.
1927f
- In 1927, Farnsworth successfully transmitted an
image, (a dollar sign) - composed of 60 horizontal
lines and submitted his first television
patent. He
subsequently invented numerous devices, including
equipment for converting an optical image into an
electrical signal, amplifier tubes, cathode-ray
tubes, electrical scanners, electron multipliers,
and photoelectric materials. He also contributed to
the development of radar systems, vacuum tubes, and
the generation of electrical energy by atomic
fusion.
1927f - On January 7, 1927, Farnsworth filed for
his first patent application. This was the
beginning of a continuous series of patent
applications which he had to file in order to
protect each improvement on his invention.
1927f - Philo Farnsworth: TV Camera - The picture
was neon pink and the horizontal lines making up
the image on the screen were almost a quarter-inch
wide. A woman's face was just barely recognizable
as such.
1927f - Since the networks won't likely re-enact
Farnsworth's big moment, you'll have to visualize
it for yourself. The setting: his modest San
Francisco lab where, on Sept. 7, 1927, the
21-year-old self-taught genius transmitted the
image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the
next room Later that day, he
triumphantly wired one of his backers in Los
Angeles: "THE DAMNED THING
WORKS!" It worked -- just like
Farnsworth had imagined when, as a 14-year-old
Idaho farmboy already obsessed with inventing
television, he had been plowing a field and
realized an image could be scanned onto a picture
tube the same way: row by row.
1927m - Marconi, on 15 June 1927, he married Maria
Cristina Bezzi-Scali; Mussolini was best man. Their
daughter was named Maria Elettra Elena Anna
Marconi. Two years later, he was created a marchese
(marquess) by King Victor Emmanuel III.
1927s - Frank Albert Stubblefield (1907-1977).
Frank attended the public schools; student at
University of Arizona in 1927; B.S., University of
Kentucky College of Commerce, 1932; engaged in the
retail drug business in Murray, Ky. Elected to U.S.
Congress in 1958.
1927s - NBS. Bernard Stubblfield took over NBS
FAmily Tust assets/Trademarks and pursues legal
acton cases for WT infringement.
1927s
0527 - NBS. WIRELESS TELEPHONE COMPANY OF AMERICA
Dissolves.
The Arizona Corporation died a quiet death on May
22, 1927, the twenty-five year statute of
limitations having come into effect.
1928 - TWO-WAY MOBILE RADIO - The Detroit Michigan
police department, became the first to despatch
police squad cars, by radio. These two-way radios
operated in the 30 to 40 mc brands. Over 400 cities
followed the trends by the year 1935.
1928d - Diode detectors receive consideration by
radio designers. Type 226 and 227 tubes with AC
heaters are released by tube manufacturers. The
first experimental TV station begins broadcasting -
WGY in Schenectady, NY. AC Screen Grid tubes are
announced towards the end of the year.
1928r
1013 - Law Suit. Fessenden wins $2.5-million, and
the title as -- "the Father of Radio," in Law Suit
against the Radio
Trust.
NEWTON, Mass, Oct. 13,
1928 -- Thus ends, his suit for $60,000,000;
Fessenden vs the Radio Corporation of America, The
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, the
General Electric Company, the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, the Western Electric
Company Inc., the International Radio Telegraph
Company, the United Fruit Company and the wireless
Specialty Appliance Company.
1928r 12 - Fessenden settles for $2,5000,000 with
the Radio Corporation and the rest of the
organizations listed in the suit of December,
1925.
The Institute of Radio Engineers presented him with
its Medal of Honor, and Philadelphia awarded him a
medal and a cash prize for "One whose labors had
been of great benefit."
1928s - FIRST
AUTOMOBILE RADIO - Radios were installed in
automobiles for the first time in 1928, three years
after Stubblefield's 1908, radio patent expired,
and the same year of Stubblefield's
death.But this
unfortunate genius clearly anticipated such a
modern luxury as early as 1908. In the original
Canadian patent is a drawing made by Stubblefield
of a "horseless carriage" with a broadcasting set,
which he later called "raidio." [sic]
COLLINS] - The same idea was to be used in
trains and steam ships, the patent declares.
1928s
- PATENTS
EXPIRE: George O. Squier's Patents expire.
All of his discoveries and inventions -- some
shared with Stubblefield, worth millions -- were
patented in the name of the people of the United
States on January 1,
1911.
1928s
0328 - DEATH OF Nathan B. Stubblefield - Nathan B.
Stubblefield, "The Inventor Of Radio" (Wireless
Telephony) died in Murray, Kentucky on March 28,
1928. He is buried in the Bowman family cemetery,
located in back of the Walston property, known as,
1619 N. 4th Street, Murray, Kentucky.
1928t - From 1928 to 1932, Tesla works on material
processing technology.
1929 - Herbert C. Hoover: Thirty-First U.S.
President, 1929 - 1933. (b. August 10, 1874 in West
Branch, Iowa, d. October 20, 1964 in New York, New
York). Married to Lou Henry Hoover.
1929
- RCA gains control of several important radio
patents, and begins to license manufacturers to use
those
designs.
Prior to this, radio
design was somewhat stifled because no one could
legally use the designs of many important circuits.
Amos 'n' Andy becomes a series on NBC A typical AC
TRF receiver employs type 226 tubes in the RF and
AF amps, a 227 as a detector, type 71A for the
output and a type 80 in the power supply
1929af - Ambrose Fleming, just over two years after
his retirement he received the Duddell Medal of the
Physical Society, and was knighted for the many
advances he had made to electrical and electronic
engineering,.
1929al
-PATENT
Alexanderson's 1,723,908 U.S. Patent Issued
"Ignition system," (RFI suppressor), Patent filed
June, 1926; issued August, 1929.-
CLICK TO VIEW PATENT
1929
1210 - PATENT
EXPIRED: Stubblefield's U.S. Patent Number 1046895,
Flying Machine, Filed Jan. 19, 1912, Granted
December 10,
1912;/ Click
MORE STORY TO GO DIRECTLY TO U.S. Patent Office
--Letters Patent
granted Stubblefield for 17 years from December 10,
1912 (expired Dec. 10,
1929). Applied in
the name of son Bernard.
1929ar - FM broadcast transmission path -
Armstrong, was granted a FM broadcast transmission
path.
1929m - Marconi received the hereditary title of
Marchese in 1929.
1929r - Elwin L. Peterson patent PATH #1747791. FM
- TV FREQUENCY.
http://uspto.gov/patft/index.html
1929r - Fessenden won Scientific American's Gold
Medal for the fathometer.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens in New
York City.
1929 - October: The stock market crashes. The crash
cripples the national economy and wipes out more
than half of the Rockefeller fortune.