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- Cathode Tube. While working at Philco, Farnsworth
began to develop his "multipactor" tube which
had the ability to transmit television impulses and
could be used as well as an amplifier, detector,
rectifier, and multiplier tube. It was the first
"cold cathode" tube and it was hailed by scientists
and engineers as a major breakthrough.
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- AT&T inaugurates transpacific telephone
service, initially between the U.S. and
Japan. Calls
travel across the Pacific via radio. The initial
capacity is one call at a time at a cost of $39 for
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1930s
- MSU -
Telephon-del-green
Monument. Since
his death, various individuals and groups in
Murray, Kentucky have publicized Murray as the
Birthplace of Radio, a claim which is not widely
recognized, and Stubblefield as the Father of
Broadcasting, a claim which has more merit. Loren
J. Hortin, Journalism Professor at Murray State,
organized his students to investigate
Stubblefield's work, leading to the dedication of a
monument on campus in 1930. Hortin later said,
"Radio is a device that transmits and receives
voice over considerable distance without connecting
wires. Stubblefield invented, manufactured, and
demonstrated such a device and did so before anyone
else on the planet." The radio station in Murray,
WNBS, used Stubblefield's initials in its call
letters. (Lochte)
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1930s - MSU College News, "Unveiling of
Stubblefield Marker,"
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1930s
0328 - Stubblefield Monument. Inventor Nathan B.
Stubblefield Memorial Marker Dedication --Murray
State honored Nathan B. Stubblefield with the
erection of Headstone Monument. The dedication took
place in Murray,
Kentucky,
on March 28, 1930,
where the Wireless Telephone was invented and
demonstrated, just across the street from the
Teléph-on-délgreen school house. Of
the Stubblefield family, only Helen,, Victoria and
Oliver, (Troy's father), were on hand at the
unveiling. Bernard, Nathan Jr., Pattie and Ada,
were no shows. The marker reads, "Here in 1902,
Nathan B. Stubblefield, 1860 - 1928, inventor of
radio, broadcast and received the human voice by
wireless. He made experiments 10 years earlier. The
home was 100 feet west. "Rainey T. Wells headed the
ceremony.
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1930s 0829 - LETTER - 1930: August 30, 1930,
from Taylor & Taylor, Attorneys at Law, Little
Rock, Arkansas.
•••
Dear Mr. Stubblefield:
•••
I had a letter some time ago from Mr. Walter C.
Sheppard in which he stated that you were having
correspondence with your mother, Mrs. Nathan B.
Stubblefield, and your sister, Mrs. J. H. White,
but they informed me that they have not heard from
you. It is their presumption and mine that you are
working on the experiments in accordance with your
plan as outlined to Mr. Sheppard. I suggest that
you communicate with your family in order that they
may know what to expect.
•••
Mr. Sheppard as well as myself are waiting the
outcome of your experiments to accept employment in
this matter, but if anything at all is to be done
it must be done right away, as the time as you
already know is growing short. In other words,
there can be no recovery at all after May 12th of
next year.
•••
Trusting we may hear from you at an early date, I
am, Very truly yours, Beloit Taylor.
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1930s - Stubblefield Poem. E. C. McAllister, an
Episcopalian clergyman of Miillinocket, ME, and
former resident of Paducah, Ky. writes poem on
Stubblefield's radio invention.
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1930s 0105 - LETTER - 1930: REG. MISSING
PATENT, January 5, 1930, From Bernard St. to Ada M.
Stubblefield, Little Rock, Ark., (handwritten
original)&emdash; Your letter of Dec. 30/29 recd. I
made a search of the papers you spoke of, but
couldn't find any of the Wireless Telephone
Patents. I am enclosing some copies, filing
receipts and a photostat copy of the patent as
appeared in the Patent Office Gazette. These copy
in question may still be in some picture frame with
some of Father's effects, still at Uncle Walters.
You all write ask him to take another look, and to
also look for a diary this is also missing ask Vick
if He sent it to her as there is a copy of an
important paper in it for her, under date of May
14, 1917. (Referring to 1908 Patent) A photostat
copy of a note to that effect is herein
enclosed.
•••
The fact that the Patent is missing would not in my
opinion effect any of our rights in case those were
infringements during the life of the Patent or
Patents as the case may be. All of the Patents are
out of date, that is not in force. Even if those
were infringements during the life of the Patents
it would be a production proposition, and cost a
mint of money to prosecute the matter, even then we
would get only a little more than (illegible) as
there is a lot of others that held a share in the
Invention. B. B. Stubblefield.
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1930s 0209 - LETTER - 1930: February 9,
1930, From Ada Mae Stubblefield to Bernard,
(handwritten original)&emdash; Dear son. Haven't
heard from you in some time. Will drop you a few
lines. I have a cliping [sic] I want to
send you it is going the rounds of all the news
papers - they are trying to boast that school.
There, Rainy Wells is the president of it. Somebody
there has those patents and your Father's diary and
books - Walter wrote me that he sent you everything
he could find . Hope your are well and O K - write
soon, Mother.
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1930s 0223 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday
Magazine, Article "Nathan B. Stubblefield Broadcast
Human Speech by Wireless 1902.
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1930s 0301 - Nathan B. Stubblefield. Kentucky
Progress Magazine, "Murray, Kentucky, Birthplace of
Radio," By L. T. Hortin.
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1930 - Dow Jones becomes incorporated in New York.
The Company is now known as Dow Jones & Company
(with the comma after Dow dropped from the company
name).
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1930al
- PATENT
- Alexanderson's 1,775,801 U.S. Patent Issued
"Radio Signaling System" (directional antenna),
filed November 1927, issued September 16, 1930
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CLICK TO VIEW PATENT
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1930s - Collins Radio, Cedar Rapids - Single
Sideband - Even back in the 1930s, Collins'
engineers recognized three requirements necessary
to make single sideband practical for general
communications use: (1) better frequency stability,
(2) smaller and lower cost single sideband filters,
and (3) better linear amplifiers. What is the
Relevancy of Radio and wireless telephone Patent to
the Internet? The wireless telephone transmitters
were connected directly into local wired telephone
exchanges to wired homes.
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1930 - The TRF, Tuned Radio Frequency receiver was
still the leader, but many superhet receivers were
being made. Interest in Short Wave listening grows.
Switches begin to replace plug in coils for
changing bands.
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1930f - Philco TV. Farnsworth granted patent. Its
lawyers, in proceedings claiming interference,
sharply questioned Farnsworth for many hours, but
failed to break him down. During the early 1930s,
Philco became Farnsworth's chief backer.
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1930f - Finally, on August 26, 1930 after many
gruelling months of legal battles and financial
worries (Farnsworth's backers spent over $30,000 on
the case), the twenty-four year old Farnsworth was
issued patent number 1,773,980 which covered
broadly his system of television and reception.
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1930f
0826 - PATENT GRANTED: FARNSWORTH TELEVISION PATENT
issued August 26, 1930. (Patent Expires August 26,
1947) - Farnsworth received his patent in 1930,
when he was twenty-four years
old.
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1931 - Herbert Clark Hoover: Thirty-First U.S.
President, 1929-1933. (b. August 10, 1874, in
West Branch, Iowa, died October 20, 1974, in New
York.
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1931 - Marconi inaugurates the new Vatican
Radio Station. He further demonstrated the
possibility of using microwaves communicating
between Santa Margherita Ligure and Levanto 36 km
away.
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1931
- MAXWELL'S ETHER THEORY
DIES - November,
13, 1931. The one-hundredth anniversary of Clerk
Maxwell's birth was marked by the scientific world
"digging a grave for the theory of a luminiferous
ether," but at the same time honoring Maxwell's
mathematical genius.
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1931 - RCA, The Radio Corporation of America
markets the "Radiola 80", one of the most famous of
all receivers. The first 'midget' sets are sold.
The radio building boom has begun to wane as most
consumers are now purchasing complete sets, rather
than kits. Zenith corporation was founded by a
radio amateur with a call sign of 9ZN, and was one
of the most successful manufacturers of the era.
This 6 volt 'farm radio' was built in the early
1930s based on the tube type and cabinet style.
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1931
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931) dies in October with
more than 1000 patents to his
credit.
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1931f - David Sarnoff, president of RCA paid a
visit to Farnsworth's San Francisco lab to find out
whether Farnsworth and his backers would consider
selling the patent, laboratory and Farnsworth's
services for $100,000. They were refused
outright.
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1931f - Philco and Farnsworth Deal. In June, 1931,
Farnsworth and his backers entered into a licensing
agreement which gave the Philco Company (the
largest manufacturer of radios at the time) the
licensing rights for television receiver sets. This
necessitated a move to Philadelphia for Farnsworth
and most of his staff where they occupied a Philco
laboratory at the Ontario and C Street plant.
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1931m
- Marconi began research into the propagation
characteristics of still shorter
waves, resulting
in the opening in 1932 of the world's first
microwave radiotelephone link between the Vatican
City and the Pope's summer residence at Castel
Gandolfo. Two years later at Sestri Levante he
demonstrated his microwave radio beacon for ship
navigation and in 1935, again in Italy, gave a
practical demonstration of the principles of radar,
the coming of which he had first foretold in a
lecture to the American Institute of Radio
Engineers in New York in 1922.
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1931s - "Firsts" for the Collection of Boy Wear's
"Remember?" E. W. Wells of Charlestown, Ark., born
in 1851 in Rock Creek, Kentucky, remembers that
Capt. W. J. Stubblefield brought the first mowing
machine to Murray in 1871 or 1872.
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1931s
- The Famed Aviation COLLINS RADIO was
formed
- M. H. Collins,
the brother of A. F. Collins, sold his Cedar
Rapids, Collins Farms Company to an east coast
insurance company -- using the money to invest in
his 23-year-old son's wireless transmission
business. Arthur Collins, picked up where his uncle
A. Frederick left off in his business dealings with
N.B. Stubblefield. The new Collins Family Group,
set up a shop at 1620 6th Avenue S.E., the family
home of the Collins; and they all began producing
transmitters and receiver kits to order -- for the
home consumer and aviation entrepreneurs. They
later sold out COLLINS RADIO and their sideband
business -- to a never disclosed War Department
party during World War II, the predecessor of
(Rockwell) in California.
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1931s 0512 - Patent Recourse expires. (See 30 08
29)
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1931s 1106 - LETTER - November 6, 1931, from Taylor
& Taylor, Law Office, to Mrs. J. H. White,
(Pattie Stubblefield) regards Buchanan heirs to
Buchanan estate. Pattie Stubblefield's mother, Ada
Mae Buchanan-Stubblefield, was the great grand
niece of President, James Buchanan.
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1931s
- Radio Tube
invention by Bernard
Stubblefield.
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1931t - Time Magazine puts Tesla on its cover. The
cover caption noted his contribution to electrical
power generation. Tesla received his last patent in
1928 for an apparatus for aerial transportation
which was the first instance of VTOL aircraft.
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1931 - The magnetic (ticker) machine was phased
out.
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1932 - Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped. The
case makes America's wealthy families especially
security conscious.
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1932
- AVC, or Automatic Volume Control was introduced.
- The first auto radios are
sold. (You still
had to stop and put up a antenna.) WFLA (AM) -WSUN
(AM), in Clearwater, Fla., installs the country's
first directional antenna.
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1932
- International Telecommunication
Union. At the
Madrid Conference, the Union decided to combine the
International Telegraph Convention of 1865 and the
International Radiotelegraph Convention of
1906
to form the
International Telecommunication
Convention.
It was also decided to
change the name of the Union to International
Telecommunication Union. The new name, which came
into effect on 1 January 1934, was chosen to
properly reflect the full scope of the Union's
responsibilities, which by this time covered all
forms of wireline and wireless communication.
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1932m - Marconi builds a permanent radiotelegraph
connection between the Vatican and Castel
Gandolfo.
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1932r - Died: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
(1871-1932), in Hamilton, Bermuda. (AC Generator).
Christmas Eve 1906, Fessenden and Alexanderson
broadcast speech and phonographic music from
Fessenden's Brant Rock Station.
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1932r - Reginald Fessenden died at his vacation
home by the sea in Hamilton, Bermuda on July 22,
1932, four years after settling a law suit against
his former bosses, GE and RCA for $2.5-milliion. He
was interred in the cemetery of St Mark's Church on
the island.
•••
On the stone lintel acros His grave there contains
the paean:
•••
"By his genius distant lands converse and men sail
unafraid upon the deep."
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1932s
- Murray, Kentucky. Public threat to close Murray
State College as an economy measure ignited the
wrath of indignant
Callowayans. W. O.
McIntyre's column in the Courier-Journal lit the
torch when he chronicled that the school was built
on a farm that Dr. Rainey T. Wells couldn't sell
but peddled to the state, lived in a house he owned
in the middle of the campus, and subsequently made
himself pres dent to run the school. (It was on
Nathan's land where Nathan B. Stubblefield's
Industrial School was located, now the campus of
MSU.) "The Story of Calloway County,"
Published by Kerby and Dorothy
Jennings.
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1932t-1937 - Tesla works on the projects of
telegeodynamics and death rays.
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1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second U.S.
President, 1933-1945. (b. January 30, 1882 in
Hyde Park, New York, d. April 12, 1945 in Warm
Springs, Georgia). Married to Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt.
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1933 - The 1933
Glass-Steagall Act enacted by U.S. Congress. The
anti-Trust Law breaks up big business. The "House
of J.P. Morgan" became three entities: 1) J.P.
Morgan and Co. and its bank, J.P. Morgan Guaranty
Trust; 2) J.P. Morgan Stanley, an investment house;
and 3) J.P. Morgan Grenfell in London, England, an
overseas securities house.
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1933 - Several Phonograph companies start labeling
records "not licensed for radio broadcast" as move
to protect their alleged property rights
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1933af - Fleming was awarded the IRE Medal of Honor
in 1933 for "the conspicuous part he played in
introducing physical and engineering principles
into the radio art." His contributions to
electronic communications and radar were of vital
importance, but it is certain that he will be
chiefly remembered for the invention of the
thermionic valve.
•1933ar
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PATENT - Armstrong's U.S. Patent
1,941,066 "Radio Signaling System," Filed
July 30, 1930, Granted December 26,
1933.
CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT.
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1934 - Died: George O. Squier (1865-1934). George
Owen Squier, was still Chief Signal Officer in the
U.S. Army when he was elected to the National
Academy of Science in 1919. His invention in 1910
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."
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1934 - Died: Marie Curie (1867-1867). Curie was a
Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a
pioneer in the early field of radioactivity, later
becoming the first two-time Nobel laureate and the
only person with Nobel Prizes in two different
fields of science (physics in 1903 and chemistry in
1911).
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1934 - Afternoon edition of The Wall Street Journal
ceases.
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1934 - J.P. Morgan Grenfell in London, England, an
overseas securities house was formed as required by
U.S. 1933 Glass-Steagall Act.
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1934 - J.P. Morgan and Co, was formed as required
by U.S. 1933 Glass-Steagall Act.
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1934 - J.P. Morgan Guaranty Trust Bank, was formed
as required by U.S. 1933 Glass-Steagall Act.
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1934 - J.P. Morgan Stanley, an investment house,
was formed as required by U.S. 1933 Glass-Steagall
Act.
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1934 - FCC Function: to control and regulate radio
frequencies and spectrums. The radio spectrum is
the radio frequency (RF) portion of the
electromagnetic spectrum. In the United States,
regulatory responsibility for the radio spectrum is
divided between the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) and the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA). The FCC, which is an independent regulatory
agency, administers spectrum for non-Federal use
(i.e., state, local government, commercial, private
internal business, and personal use) and the NTIA,
which is an operating unit of the Department of
Commerce, administers spectrum for Federal use
(e.g., use by the Army, the FAA, and the FBI).
Within the FCC, the Office of Engineering and
Technology (OET) provides advice on technical and
policy issues pertaining to spectrum allocation and
use.
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1934
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is
created by congress. THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF
1934.
U.S. FCC
Communications Policy Legislation. *(See Footnote.)
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; By 1934 pressure to
consolidate all telecommunication regulation for
both wired and wireless services prompted new
legislation with a broader purpose. By 1996
pressure to deregulate all telecommunication
regulation for both wired and wireless services for
control of the New Internet Craze, prompted new
legislation by the Clinton Administration with a
broader purpose.
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1934al - Alexanderson was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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1934ar - Armstrong develops his theory to use FM.
'All-Wave' receivers are a hit this year, bringing
in radio from foreign broadcasters. WLW increases
to a half million Watts of power.
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1934d
- De Forest Wins patent suit. De Forest vs.
Armstrong law Patent suit
ends.
De Forest won, but
the radio industry still credits Smart-Daaf Boy
Armstrong with the invention.
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1934f - In the summer of 1934, Farnsworth and his
men decided to leave Philco and establish their own
separate laboratory, while remaining in
Philadelphia, which was then the center of the
radio industry. They turned their attention towards
developing a practical demonstration unit for
television.
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1934m - Marconi establishes a radiotelegraph link
between the Elettra and the radio beacon in Sestri
Levante.
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1934t - Tesla wrote to consul Jankovic of his
homeland. The letter contained the message of
gratitude to Mihajlo Pupin who initiated a donation
scheme by which American companies could support
Tesla. Tesla refused the assistance, and chose to
live by a modest pension received from Yugoslavia
and to continue researching.
•
1934 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera, hired to paint
a mural for Rockefeller Center, is dismissed after
refusing to replace the face of Lenin. Despite
protests, his mural will be destroyed less than a
year later.
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1935ar
- Howard Armstrong demonstrates FM. The first metal
tubes are released. Over a million auto radios are
installed this
year.
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1935f - Never mind the record says different. In
1935 the courts ruled on Farnsworth's patent, which
RCA was contesting as part of Sarnoff's endless
campaign of litigation, propaganda and dirty
tricks. The decision, upheld on appeal: Farnsworth,
not RCA's chief television engineer Vladimir
Zworykin, is the father of TV.
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1935 - Baird Television Company demonstrates a "new
method and transmitting feature film by the Baird
'240 line system' at an exhibitors conference in
Cardiff, Wales.
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1936 - BBC launches the
world's first regular television service.
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1936 - Most radios sold now employ an AFC circuit -
Automatic Frequency Control. 'Automatic Tuning'
(push-button) are the years big hit. Approx. 8
million sets are sold this year. 3 out of 4
families have a radio in the home.
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1936f - During Farnsworth's German trip, a
disastrous fire swept through the Crystal Palace
and destroyed all of the Baird equipment which had
been based on Farnsworth's work. It was a huge
disappointment for the inventor who returned sadly
to Philadelphia with a distorted piece of melted
glass. This represented all that was left of
Farnsworth's dissector tube which would have been
used in the camera made ready for the first
broadcast.
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1936f
- TV Transmissions. Farnsworth and invited him to
England by John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who was the
other developer of a workable television system
based on the revolving
disk.
At the Crystal Palace
in London Farnsworth's demonstration (in which he
transmitted a signal that was picked up 25 miles
away) was such a success that Parliament voted to
have the British Broadcasting Company (BBC ) start
television service for the London area. The Baird
Company and Marconi EMI were chosen by the BBC to
be the suppliers for television.
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1936f- Farnsworth and Berlin to make a licensing
agreement with Fernseh AG, who worked closely with
the Baird Company. Fernseh was headed by Dr. Paul
Goerz who had been appointed by the German Reich as
the co-ordinator for radio and television, although
he was not a Nazi.
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1937f
- PATENT -
Farnsworth's U.S. Patent 2,089,054 Patent
Granted "Incandescent Light Source"
Filed March 9, 1936, Granted August 3, 1937.
CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT.
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1937 - Cathode Ray tuning eyes (the Magic Eye
Tube). Slide Rule tuning, and sleek veneered
cabinets are the big features this year. The
dirigible, Hindenburg crashes in flames at
Lakehurst, N.J. May 6th, 1937 - and the tragedy was
captured in an incredible live radio broadcast. The
NBC Symphony Orchestra is formed.
•
1937
- Nobel Prize: Clinton Davisson of Bell Telephone
Laboratories wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for
experimental confirmation of the wave nature of the
electron. He
becomes the first of seven Nobel Prize winners
produced by AT&T.
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1937f - Fernseh, American Telephone and Telegraph
(AT&T) signed an agreement with Farnsworth July
22, 1937 giving Farnsworth and AT&T the right
to use each other's patents. These three agreements
helped solidify Farnsworth's reputation with
worldwide recognition
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1937m
- Died: Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), of a heart
attack, on July 20, in Rome,
Italy.
Radio Transmitters
around the world closed down for two minutes
silence in his memory.
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1937s - Died: Ada Mae Stubblefield (1864-1937), at
Clarksdale, Mississippi. Burial in Murray,
Kentucky.
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1937t - Tesla composed a treatise entitled "The Art
of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy
through the Natural Media" concerning charged
particle beams. Tesla published the document in an
attempt expound on the technical description of a
"superweapon that would put an end to all war".
This treatise of the particle beam is currently in
the Nikola Tesla Museum archive in Belgrade. It
described an open ended vacuum tube with a gas jet
seal that allowed particles to exit, a method of
charging particles to millions of volts, and a
method of creating and directing nondispersive
particle streams (through electrostatic
repulsion).
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1937t - Tesla is hit and injured by a car during
one of his regular walks along the streets of New
York. Soon after that, he is down with pneumonia of
which he never completely recovers.
•
1938
- Howard Hughes flies around the world and keeps in
touch by radio.
Broadcasting standards for TV were announced,
paving the way for commercial television stations.
The power of radio is demonstrated by Orson Wells,
and the "Mercury Theater of the Air" - Panic is
reported to be widespread as people believe the
earth has been invaded by "Martians."
•
1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world and
keeps in touch by radio. Broadcasting standards for
TV were announced, paving the way for commercial
television stations. The power of radio is
demonstrated by Orson Wells, and the "Mercury
Theater of the Air" - Panic is reported to be
widespread as people believe the earth has been
invaded by "Martians... and we are in a "War of the
Worlds."
•
1938
- PATENT: Al Gross patents his own version of the
Stubblefield Walkie-Talkie, as described in the
1907 Stubblefield
patent. Al would
also talk of his run-in with David Sarnoff at RCA,
who attempted to sue him for patent infringement on
the walkie-talkie, and how he had successfully
defended his case.
•
1938 - The telephone system of Murray was
modernized from the old magneto lever cranking
system to a flash system. The changeover was a
welcomed technological improvement.
•
1938al - Alexanderson was awarded an honorary
doctorate by the University of Upsala . As a result
of the gradual broadening of its work to cover
numerous fields, Alexanderson's Radio Consulting
Department was renamed the Consulting Engineering
Department in 1928, and in 1933 it became the
Consulting Engineering Laboratory. In connection
with the reorganization of General Electric in
1945, this laboratory was merged with General
Electric's General Engineering Laboratory to form
the General Engineering and Consulting
Laboratory.
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1938f - Although Farnsworth was able to show a
remarkably clear image of over a foot square to the
Franklin Institute, Philco became restive as
expenses mounted. When costs passed a quarter of a
million dollars, a lot of money in Depression days,
Philco pulled out. Farnsworth's money men tried to
sell his patents outright in 1938.
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1938f - With the advent of World War II however,
Farnsworth's close working relationships with the
Germans and the British dwindled as the presidents
of both of these companies were called to serve
their countries.
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1938s
- 1944 - Kentucky Dam. TVA (Tennessee Valley
Authority) - Located in Western Kentucky on the
Tennessee River creates the largest manmade lake in
the Eastern
U.S.
The huge job of
building Kentucky Dam took six years from the start
of construction on July 1, 1938, until the
reservoir began filling on August 30, 1944. More
important than the project's size are the jobs it
performs. Kentucky Dam is the spigot that TVA
(Tennessee Valley Authority) uses to help control
floods on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers; it
is the gateway to the Tennessee River waterway and
is a major generating plant in the TVA power
system.
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1939 - TV is demonstrated at the New York Worlds
Fair. Edwin Armstrong is operating W2XMN - a 50,000
watt FM station at Alpine, N.J. The first
Television sets are sold by several manufacturers.
The start of the European war renews interest in
short-wave receivers.
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1938 - Nelson Rockefeller is named president of
Rockefeller Center.
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1939
0901 - The Second World War begins, September 1;
September 3, England and France declare War on
Germany.
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1939f
- Farnsworth and
RCA. In 1939, RCA
obtained a license from Farnsworth to produce
electronic television transmission systems that
combined his technology with theirs. Farnsworth
later conducted research on radar and nuclear
energy. Zworykin And Sarnoff went to California a
couple of months later -- to see what Philo was up
to in his laboratory. Later Zworykin was said to
have claimed that RCA wouldn't need anything
Farnsworth had done. Then RCA's tough chief, David
Sarnoff, came to take a look. He echoed Zworykin.
But later RCA found that it very badly needed some
of Farnsworth's patents and paid for rights on a
royalty arrangement.
•••
••• The young American and the
Russian emigre worked contemporaneously, though
separately, to develop television. When Farnsworth
applied for an electronic television patent he
really shook RCA, whose laboratories under Vladimir
Zworykin had long been struggling with the problem.
RCA challenged the application.
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1939
- PATENT - Farnsworth's U.S. Patent 2,1849,10
Patent
Granted
"Cold Cathode Electron Discharge Tube" Filed Nov.
4, 1936, Granted Dec. 26, 1939.
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1939s - Frank Albert Stubblefield (1907-1977),
Member of city council, Murray, Ky., 1939-1942;
served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy
from 1944 until September 1945; member of the
Kentucky Railroad Commission, 1951-1955; reelected
to four-year term in 1955, but resigned December
31, 1958, to run for Congress.
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1939s 0210 - Died: Walter Stubblefield (1864-1939),
on February 10. Brother of inventor, N. B.
Stubblefield.
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1939 - On Aug. 29, 1939, two days before Britain
and France declared war on Germany, British
television service blacked out midbroadcast for
what was cited by the BBC as defenser reasons. The
order came from the military and it would be seven
years before television pictures would air again on
June 7, 1946.
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