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,• • By 1910, Gen. Squire had totally convinced Grandpa Nat that a few patentable trade outs, here and there, would only enhance the potentials of what it would be like working with the U.S. Army, as part of the Signal Corps telecom team. Both the General and NBS had close associations with Nikola Tesla, George. Westinghouse, Fessenden, and Prof. Frederick Collins, all part of the original 1902, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. demonstrations. The General positioned himself to have close dealings with all of the members of the Smart-Daaf Boys group, and acted as the intermediary for the inventor, AT&T, GE, the Marconi Company and Congress. • • As the story goes, it was this same year, that most of the committed "secret keeper" group, except for Collins and Deforest, were totally convinced that they would be part of an alliance that would monopolize NBS's wireless/firewire patents, and Squier's proposed multiplex wired-wireless radio telephone/telegraph system, throughout the world. See Photo of 1902 Washington D.C. Potomac River ship to shore wireless demonstration. Click to view - the SMART-DAAF BOYS. • • After the U.S. Attorney General announced the acceptance of AT&T's Kingsbury Commitment in 1913, and upon the advice and assurance that the telecom commitment would be enforced by the U.S. Attorney General's office, the Signal Corps "dream team" stepped aside and fell into the background in 1913. • • Stubblefield filed for his promised Flying Machine patent, in the name of his son Bernard Stubblefield; Collins and DeForest swiftly concluded their stock fraud cases; and the General committed to give any acquired or future patent rights involving telephony or telegraphy, to the people of the United States, as a sign of good faith and Squires full intentions. See NBS Timeline. 03 Kingsbury Commitment / • • The Kingsbury Commitment, was a simple letter from the vice president of AT&T', Nathan Kingsbury, dated, December 9, 1913, in which AT&T agreed with the U.S. Attorney General, that it would divest itself of Western Union, would provide long-distance services to independent exchanges under certain conditions and to refrain from any and all acquisitions if the Interstate Commerce Commission objected. • • Again, like today, there were just as many judicial activists then, earning a place in history, by making things happen. They angered the electromagnet wave industry innovators, who viewed the court rulings as "overly zealous regulators, with self-serving agendas", says attorney Scott Stubblefield. Both federal and local judges helped establish the precedents for implementing the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, and the 1913 "Kingsbury Commitment, that ended any dreams the Kentucky "Big Six" had in creating a National Broadcasting System (NBS) telecom monopoly in Kentucky. (Both Squier and AT&T's, Theodore Vail had worked on the founding of the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, and the 1913 "Kingsbury Commitment. Squier was co-holder of several patents filed by AT&T). • • Making AT&T a quasi like arm of the U.S. Government, to seize the assets of other telecom companies, by "natural" reasons, was one of the regulatory missteps, that was overlooked by state's rights backers. • • The Act cemented AT&T's control of America's telephone land-line network and was the door opener for the emerging wireless radio broadcasting industry led by NBC. The monopoly's power to supervise war time patent pools, was a dream come true for AT&T. After the war's end, AT&T, claimed the telecom assets and frequencies as theirs, and the regulators agreed ruling that such procedures were necessary to control the interconnections that were being tied into the future of America's telecom system's targets. • • NBS was not, and had never been a member of any anti-war or hate group that was out to ban Telefunken or the Marconi Company out of existence. He in fact despised dictatorial ideology and was a proud American patriot. But he was also a southern Democrat, an educator, an inventor, with a strong belief in States rights. • • In other words, Grandpa Nat was exactly the kind of person who followed Time Lines. If Dolbear, Edison, Bell, Tesla, Braun, Marconi, and Fessenden DID THIS and DID THAT in 1880, 1888, in 1896 and in 1907, and if NBS had done THIS or THAT, in 1882, 1886, 1892, 1898, 1902 and in 1907, and the general public was invited to demonstrations as witnesses - that was the way it was with him. --"Who could challenge historical truths with photos and public records, unless a big ball of fire occurred," said Alden Stubblefield. - MORE STORY / -PART THREE 292005•  •
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working title agreed to is: "Firewire and Watermelons".
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