Up with Fessenden, down with Marconi

[Peter Q. George]

--- On Mon, 10/4/10, Seth <seth@upsidemedia.com> wrote:


>   I thought Marconi was only
> credited with wireless telegraph 
> transmissions (as a first). Lee De Forest often gets credit
> for 
> transmitting voice, having invented the "Audion tube."


Lee DeForest may have "invented" the Audion tube, but it took Edwin Howard Armstrong to show the world how to use it.  Even DeForest didn't know what to do with it.  DeForest was nothing but a "shill", a phony, plain and simple.  He was a legend in his own mind, at the cost of others. On the other hand, Howard Armstrong was a genius with a multitude of inventions to his credit including Frequency Modulation (FM) which the folks at RCA did everything in their power to discredit him.  Eventually FM DID win, but at such a tragic cost to its' inventor. 

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"

radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Mon, 10/4/10, Seth <seth@upsidemedia.com> wrote:


>   I thought Marconi was only
> credited with wireless telegraph 
> transmissions (as a first). Lee De Forest often gets credit
> for 
> transmitting voice, having invented the "Audion tube."
>