Priority in the Invention of Radio -- Tesla vs. Marconi Leland Anderson 9 pages, 8 illustrations, 17 references, 5 1/4" X 8 1/2", saddle stitch binding. Retail price: $3.50, Code: 431-PIR John Stone Stone on Ni
Priority in the Invention of Radio — Tesla vs. Marconi Leland Anderson On June 21, 1943 the Supreme Court of the United States held the broad claims of Marconi's patent for improvements in apparatus for wireless telegraphy to be invalid. This monograph shows how the nation's high court arri...
When I learned that Nikola Tesla invented the radio, and not Marconi, I was shocked. Tesla also invented the electric generator, the electric motor, fluorescent lighting, alternating current (AC) and devised the technologies that generate and deliver our electrical power for our homes, schools and...
Fearing ruin, Westinghouse begged Tesla for relief from the royalties he had agreed to. “Your decision determines the fate of the Westinghouse Company,” he said. Tesla, grateful to the man who had never tried to swindle him, tore up the royalty contract, walking away from millions of dol...
Though Marconi’s plans were considerably less ambitious in scale, his apparatus was also considerably less expensive. Work at Wardenclyffe continued, but Tesla realized that this his competitor’s success with simple wireless telegraphy had greatly diminished the likelihood of further investments in his...
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of light, such as neon and fluorescent, as well as X-rays. Tesla also discovered that these coils, soon to be called “Tesla coils,” made it possible to send and receive radio signals. He quickly filed for American patents in 1897, beating the Italian inventorGuglielmo Marconito the ...