Fessenden - Builder of Tomorrows
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491_9781443721301
BUILDER OF TOMORROWS by HELEN M. FESSENDEN. Firat published in New York 1940. FOREWORD: To THE WORLD of Today and the World of Tomorrow, worlds alike benefited and enriched by the life of Reginald A. Fessenden, I give the man himself. That the mind which conceived the correct theory of wireless transmission, which invented the Wireless Telephone and with it accomplished the first Broadcasting, which invented and developed the Fathometer and all it implied, that this mind failed to de fend itself against commercial assault, whether financial or scientific, is an inescapable fact. For this fact I make no apology. Mine is the setting forth of factual data, an indication of trends, not the indictment of any man or group of men. Without a straightforward account of certain legal encounters, the life of my husband would be but partly told. The outcome of these encounters is a matter of court record which he who runs may read. It is however not by court decisions but by his work that the man will be remembered. It is a pet idea of mine that one gets more real truth out o one avowed partisan than out of a dozen of your sham impartialists wolves in sheeps clothing simpering honesty as they suppress documents. After all, what one wants to know is not what people did, but why they did it or rather why they thought they did it and to learn that you should go to the men themselves, their very falsehood is often more than another mans truth. Contents include: CONTENTS I. FOREBEARS AND CHILDHOOD . . 3 II. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 13 III. BERMUDA 23 IV. NEW YORK 27 V. A YANKEE BOY AND A CHINA MUG . 31 VI. FESSENDEN FINDS HIMSELF ... 39 VII. NEWARK, PITTSFIELD AND PURDUE 47 VIII. PITTSBURGH DAYS 64 IX. A MOMENTOUS DECISION .... 73 X. WIRELESS AT ROANOKE ISLAND . . 86 XI. NATIONAL ELECTRIC SIGNALING COMPANY 105 XII. WIRELESS AS A BUSINESS ENTER PRISE AND TRANS-ATLANTIC STA TIONS 119 XIII. TRANS-ATLANTIC WORKING ... 131 XIV. DASHED HOPES 140 XV. WIRELESS TELEPHONY AND THE HIGH-FREQUENCY ALT
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