Word: radio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guglielmo Marconi is clearly the father of wireless telegraphy, but between SOS. calls and the Happiness Boys lies a long period of experimental development. Many men have contributed to radio development; no one man can be called Father of Radio...
Favorable to patent litigation is such an anonymous condition, and out of the radio world came last week announcement of a patent war. Attacking was Kolster Radio Corp. Defending were 19 radio-makers including Grigsby-Gruno (Majestic), National Carbon* (Eveready), Crosley, Zenith, Stewart-Warner, Sonora-"independent" set-makers all. Not included was Radio Corp. of America...
Kolster Corp. maintained that four basic patents, including a fundamental tuning device by which several condensers are operated with a single control, have been violated. Vigorous prosecution may result in damage suits amounting to many millions, may throw the radio industry into prolonged patent litigation...
...President Hoover has just been assassinated ! Vice President Curtis is mortally wounded!" So cried a voice to the Paterson, N. J., radio audience. Frantic telephone calls for confirmation of this News were made to National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WJZ. Last week the company started a search for the amateur radio-news-faker who used the WJZ wave length and call letters to broadcast such gruesome "humor...
...Another prohibition announcement of last week came from Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...