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mechanical television system at London Department
store Selfridges & Co.
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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
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1920
- A New Industry
Evolves
- Following the
patenting of the telephone in 1876 and the
subsequent expansion of telephony, the
International Telegraph Union began, in 1885, to
draw up international legislation governing
telephony. With the invention in 1896 of wireless
telegraphy -- the first type of
radiocommunication -- and the utilization of
this new technique for maritime and other
purposes,
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1920 - But of all the stations on the air in the
early 1920s, the one to stir the attention of the
public and the industry alike was AT&T's WEAF
in New York.
•
1920 - it was decided to convene a preliminary
radio conference in 1903 to study the question of
international regulations for radiotelegraph
communications. The first International
Radiotelegraph Conference held in 1906 in Berlin
signed the first International Radiotelegraph
Convention, and the annex to this Convention
contained the first regulations governing wireless
telegraphy. These regulations, which have since
been expanded and revised by numerous radio
conferences, are now known as the Radio
Regulations.
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1920
- Westinghouse owned station KDKA in Pittsburgh,
which began operating in the 1920s.
•
1920 - QST carries an editorial on CW vs SPARK as
Amateurs take sides.
•
1920 - Radio Broadcasting Begins - General Electric
Entered Broadcasting By Signing On WGY in
Schenectady, New York. But of all the stations on
the air in the early 1920s, the one to stir the
attention of the public and the industry alike was
AT&T's WEAF in New York. Westinghouse owned
station KDKA in Pittsburgh.
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1920 - The year 1920 saw the beginning of sound
broadcasting at the improvised studios of the
Marconi Company, and in 1927, the International
Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) was established
at a conference held in Washington D.C. The
International Telephone Consultative Committee
(CCIF, set up in 1924), the International Telegraph
Consultative Committee (CCIT, set up in 1925), and
the CCIR were made responsible for coordinating the
technical studies, tests and measurements being
carried out in the various fields of
telecommunications, as well as for drawing up
international standards.
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1920
- Voice Radio Broadcasting
Commences.
•
1920 - Westinghouse builds a 1920-100 watt radio
station in a little shack atop its nine story
factory in Pittsburgh, KDKA. November 2, 1920,
Frank Conrad and Donald Little broadcast election
returns from 8:00 PM till after midnight- an event
that is credited with starting a rush to build
stations, and purchase receivers. ( 91 K Wav) not
the actual broadcast, but an interesting
re-creation) KDKA Rooftop Shack in the early 1920s.
By late in the year, radio is being acclaimed as
the newest form of entertainment for the home. The
first superheterodyne circuit is announced by
Armstrong. Westinghouse purchases the Superhet
patent from Armstrong, along with several patents
from Reginald Fessenden and Michael Pupin. The 'C'
battery is introduced to provide bias voltage. This
helps the 'B' battery last longer by reducing the
amount of plate current needed on tubes. Radio
experimenters spent over 2 Million dollars for
radio parts in 1920.
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1920ar
- PATENT
- Armstrong's U.S. Patent
1,336,378,
(E. I Pupin and E. H. Armstrong) "Antenna With
Distributive Positive Resistance," Filed Oct.
1, 1915, Granted April 6, 1920; Renewed June 20,
1919.
CLICK TO VIEW PATENT
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1920ar
- PATENT
- Armstrong's U.S. Patent 1,342,885 "Method of
Receiving High Frequency Oscillation," Filed
Feb. 8, 1919, Granted June 8,
1920.
CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT
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1920d - In the 1920s, De Forest had been trying to
use electricity to improve sound recordings. He
found a way to record sound on film, again adapting
the work of others and using his Audion. This led
directly to the creation of motion pictures with
sound.
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1920m
- Marconi establishes the first short-wave radio
link between London and Birmingham, England on 20
Megacycles.
Although most
experimenters and pioneers used the longer waves,
Marconi never did fully abandon his efforts to use
the short-wave bands.
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1920m - Marconi's Chelmsford factory was location
of the first officially publicized sound broadcasts
in the UK.
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1920r
- PATENT
EXPIRES: Fessenden/Poulsen's 1903 Patent For
Broadcast Transmitter expires - High
Frequency (sound) broadcast
transmitter.
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1920s - AT&T - SQUIER's Single Sideband - In
the 1920s, AT&T used single sideband in regular
transatlantic telephone communications. The problem
was that it took a whole roomful of equipment to
generate and filter a single sideband signal. Click
to: No. 1355: Major General George Squier, Muzak,
and Struggling to be Generous -- Engines of Our
Ingenuity No. 1355: "George Squier" by John H.
Lienhard Click.
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1920s 0427 - THE BOSTON TRAVELER - April 27, 1920;
May Talk To Europe Along Sea-Bed Wire; Discovery
Announced by Gen. Squier - Bare Copper Strand
Directs Message - Is Wired Wireless System;
--(Bernard made handwritten note that Nathan B.
Stubblefield of Murray Key demonstrated that this
could be done prior to 1902, without the use of
vacuum tubes).
•••
Washington, April 27&emdash;An important
development which may revolutionize the present
system of world cable communication is to be
announced here this afternoon before the National
Academy of Sciences by Maj.--Gen. George O. Squier,
chief signal officer of the United States Army.
*NBSWiTel™©AFact
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1921s
0514 - PATENT FILED: Bernard Stubblefield's U.S.
Patent 469,703, "Means for Retaining Drafting
Instruments," Thumb Tags, filed May 14, 1921,
Granted Feb. 13, 1923.
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1921 - Barron's, America's premier financial
weekly, is founded; its first editor is Clarence
Barron.
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1921 - Clarence Barron hires Kenneth Craven "Casey"
Hogate, who shortly afterward became the paper's
managing editor and then later became president of
Dow Jones.
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1921
- David Sarnoff is named General Manager of
RCA.
The
Dempsey-Carpentier fight is broadcast on WJY. This
fight is broadcast to an audience estimated at
300,000. At nearly the same time as the fight
ended, the transmitter overloaded - and was
described later as a 'molten mass'. (Dempsey
knocked out Carpentier in the Fourth round)
Speakers began to replace headphones for listening.
Attachments for holding headphones against the tone
arms of phonographs are being sold. Signal strength
is measured in terms of ..."I can hear it with the
headphones laying on the table." There are 5
broadcasting stations on the air in December of
1921. WJZ broadcasts a Baseball World series game,
pitch by pitch, getting the information by
telephone.
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1921 - The second transatlantic test is run and is
a success. This spells the end of Spark as the
Audion tube takes its place.
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1921 - Warren G. Harding: Twenty-Ninth U.S.
President, 1921-1923. (b. November 2, 1865 in
Corsica (Blooming Grove), Ohio, d. August 2, 1923
during his presidency while visiting San Francisco,
California). Married to Florence Kling Harding.
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1921 - Westinghouse sets up stations WJZ in Newark,
N.J. KYW in Chicago, Ill., and WBZ in Springfield,
MA. A religious service was broadcast from Calvary
Episcopal Church at Pittsburgh through KDKA. The
engineers wore choir robes, as not to distract from
the service. Station WJC (soon to become WABC) in
Newark, NJ broadcasts regular bedtime stories.
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1921d
- De Forest applied for Sound of Film patent in
1921 (awarded in 1924) and tried to interest the
film industry in his technology.
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1921f - While Still A Teenager, the
fifteen-year-old Farnsworth, had become excited by
radio and television after reading about Rosing's
work in a magazine. He created an electronic
television system that was superior to the
mechanical discs used experimentally at the
time.
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1921s
0922 - Marriage: Oliver J. Stubblefield, son of
inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield marries Priscilla
Alden on Sept. 22nd, in Wichita, Kansas.
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1921t - From 1921 to 1925, Tesla works with the
Budd Company and develops new types of automobile
engines for them.
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1922 - AT&T - Interconnection of Stations - The
first use of wire telephone lines for
interconnecting a station in New York city and a
station in Chicago, Illinois, to broadcast
simultaneously a description of a football game,
introduced a new idea into radio broadcasting. What
is the Relevancy of Radio and wireless telephone
Patent to the Internet? The transmitters were
connected directly into local wired telephone
exchanges for mass broadcasting from other
stations.
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1922
- GOVERNMENT REGULATION - The administration of the
broadcasting industry regulations was entrusted to
the U.S. Department of Commerce;
Under the 1912
irrelevant set of laws, a rapidly increasing number
of broadcasting stations (from about 50 in 1922 to
more than 500 in 1923) were crowded into narrow
wave bands, and interference from overlapping
stations became intolerable.
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1922 - In September of 1922 there are 537 stations
broadcasting. Two frequencies are authorized for
broadcasting...833 and 619 kc's. A third frequency
was added later in the year - 750 kc. Approx.
100,000 radio sets are produced this year. Radio
prices begin to fall, as competition to market
radio's grows. WEAF in New York is the first to
offer air time to advertisers. It was August 28th,
at 5:15 PM - an infomercial on the Hawthorne
apartment complex in Queens.
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1922
- The BBC was
established.
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1922 - The Superregenerative Circuit (1922)
Armstrong
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1922 - There were over 15,000 licensed Dit Dah
Amateur stations.
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1922ar - Edwin Armstrong invents the
'Super-Regenerative' receiver.
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1922ar
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PATENT
- Armstrong's U.S. Patent 1,424,065
"Signaling System," Filed June 27, 1921,
Granted July 25, 1922.
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PATENT
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1922m - the World's first regular wireless
broadcasts for entertainment commenced from the
Marconi Research Centre at Writtle near
Chelmsford.
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1922s
- Murray State Normal School. By 1922, the
Teléph-on-délgreen Campus (85 acres)
became Murray State Normal School. The college
since that time didn't change it's name just once,
not twice, but three
times. The
original Teléph-on-délgreen site is
now Murray State University (MSU), with a student
body of over 10,000. A memorial for Nathan stands
100 yards from the worlds first Voice Radio
Station. The peaches, apples, watermelons and other
crops that Nathan Stubblefield grew on
Teléph-on-délgreen, were not only a
source of pride, but they all became part of the
memory that held special a symbolism to the deaths
of Ada and his 3 infant children. Franklin, 1884,
Carrie, 1885, and Wm. Tesla,
1905. CLICK FOR
MORE STORY AND 1907 PHOTO OF NBS FAMILY
Teléph-on-délgreen AND MEMORIAL /
CLICK FOR MORE MSU STORY.
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1922s
- Murray State University Founded -
When funding came
in from the State to pay for
Teléph-on-délgreen, Rainey T. Wells
built the controversial Mansion for himself and his
family on Teléph-on-délgreen, now the
campus of MSU. Rainey became its president in
1926-1933, and the State's leading educator and
fund raiser.
•
1923 - Calvin Coolidge: Thirtieth President U.S.
President, 1923-1929. (b. July 4, 1872 in
Plymouth, Vermont, d. January 5, 1933 in
Northhampton, Massachusetts). Married to Grace Anna
Goodhue Coolidge.
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1923
- Radio Installed at the Whiten House by U.S.
President Harding. The first Network broadcast was
made, as WEAF, WJAR and WMAF are linked by
phone. New radios
became obsolete in 3 to 6 months time. Approx.
500,000 radio sets are produced this year.
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1923
- Vladimir Zworykin invents the iconoscope and the
kinescope, the basis for
television.
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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.
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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
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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.
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1923s
0510 - Brief History of the Stubblefield ancestry
by Nathan B. Stubblefield at Almo, Kentucky.
FOR
MORE STORY
SOULFIND
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1924 - Alexanderson was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
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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).
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1924
- Wired Radio: Muzak. Shortly before George O.
Squier's retirement in 1924, he turned his
attention to a new application of the transmission
technologies
he 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."
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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.
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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.
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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 - 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.
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1925
- AT&T establishes Bell Telephone Laboratories
Inc. as its research and development
subsidiary.
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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
Electric
and
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.
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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.
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1925d
- PATENT EXPIRES: De Forest's 1908 Audion Patent
Number Three, #879, 532 Covering the Device as a
Detector, expires.
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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.
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- DEATH OF Nathan B. Stubblefield.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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1926r
- PATENT
- Fessenden's U.S. Patent 1576735 "Infusor"
(for making tea) Granted March 16, 1926.
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1926s - Rainey T. Wells became president of Murray
State College, 1926 through 1933.
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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.
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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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Radio
Act of
1927
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1927s - NBS. Bernard Stubblfield took over NBS
FAmily Tust assets/Trademarks and pursues legal
acton cases for WT infringement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 e
