Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these stories were appearing the Hearst press carried the information that Guglielmo Marconi, seeing the Count and Countess dancing in Paris, remarked: "This is the finest mated couple I have ever seen in my life. Their 'waves' must be exactly the same length...
...international wireless communication, and effectively compete with foreign-owned or controlled companies in that field." By mobilizing the electric patents of the leading American concerns, the Radio Corporation, he claimed, has ended selfish and obstructive rivalry, and greatly furthered the development of wireless communication. Radio Corporation acquired the American Marconi Co. from control of the British Marconi Co., and thus saved the General Electric patents and apparatus from being sold to foreign firms. In this way, General Harbord maintained, the public interest has been served by his company...
...Radio Corporation was organized in 1919 under the supervision of the General Electric, which supplied capital and enabled the new company to acquire the American Marconi Company. On Dec. 31, 1922, the holdings of the various respondents in Radio Corporation capital stock, which totaled $33,440,033.56, were as follows: General Electric, 620,800 preferred and 1,876,000 common; Westinghouse Electric, 1,000,000 preferred and 1,000,000 common; A. T. & T., 400,000 preferred, no common; and United Fruit, 200,000 preferred and 160,000 common...
...Radio Corporation, in November 1919, took over the properties, patents and licenses of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and subsequently entered into agreements with companies controlling practically all patents covering radio devices, which made the Radio Corporation the selling agent for these companies. Such patents are gradually running out, however; the Fleming patent on the vacuum tube expired in 1922, and such tubes are now sold ro the public by several competing firms...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, ranked with Marconi, Edison, Tesla, as one of the world's supreme masters of electricity, is dead at 58 in Schenectady, the scene of his 30 years' labors as Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Co. He had recently returned in a weakened condition from a six weeks' lecture tour to the Pacific Coast, and was confined to his bed, but believed to be in no danger. Death was due to chronic myocarditis, sudden failure striking the weakened wall of the heart...