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m II wrote:
I wonder how Tesla's work would have been different if his first great rivalry had been with Marconi rather than Edison. It was. There were really bad irregularities at the patent office. Marconi had connections. Roughly forty years alter, thing were turned around. The patent process was and still is rife with loopholes that almost encourage abuse. A.G. Bell beat Elisha Gray (who ironically founded Western Electric and ran it during the rise of AT&T) to the patent on the telephone through a technicality. Gray actually had a working model first. And had the first filing. Bell's project borrowed liberally from Gray. (When I worked at AT&T, it was a cardinal sin to mention Gray's name. We were all shown "The Alexander Graham Bell Story." A film with huge historical inaccuracies regarding the invention of the telephone. A film for which Alexander Graham Bell's daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, had official script approval. The film was also funded with huge help from AT&T.) Vladimir Zworykin had actually visited Philo Farnsworth' lab and translated whole technologies to his own Sarnoff funded project for the development of Television. And with the aid of Sarnoff's lawyers, landed the patent. As with Tesla, Farnsworth's estate was eventually vindicated by the courts, and Farnsworth was posthumously named the inventor of Television. |
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