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Excerpts
From Chapter 5
Disappointments
Are Great!
(Follow
The Money)
Confusion
Sells
"The
Phony
Craze"
By Troy
Cory-Stubblefield / Josie
Cory
Can
A Disappointment Break A Jinx?
-----
Rainey
T. Wells said,
YES!
-----By
1892, Nathan's vibrating phone
could transmit voice without
wires from grounded
electromagnetic wave energy, then
through the atmosphere to a
companion receiver.
-----
It
was the 17-year-old Rainey T.
Wells (b. Dec. 25, 1875, d. June
15, 1958) who attentively heard
his first words over a wireless
telephone in 1892, at
Teléph-on-délgreen,
now Murray State University.
-----
Fifteen
years later, Rainey, then a judge
in the Kentucky Calloway Court
system, opened his 1907 Christmas
Day birthday toast with the
truism that most legal scholars
quote on the first day in law
school,. "De minimis non curat
lex" ("The law does not concern
itself with trifles").
-----
Rainey,
in 1907, with the Why Not's! and
the
Teléph-on-délgreen
theme song still echoing in their
ears, all of the original big six
members + two met in early
December, 1906 a few weeks after
Nathan's birthday. After Nathan
offered them equity ownership in
the wireless telephone patent, it
took only minutes to bond Senator
Conn Linn, R. Downs, B. F.
Schroader, George C. McLarin,
John P. McElrath, Jeff D.
Roulett, [Samuel E.
Bynum], and Judge Rainey T.
Wells. The first filing of the
Idea System of Wireless Telephony
would include all forms of
wireless transmissions to and
from all sea going vessels,
trains and horse and buggies.
-----
A
few weeks later, it was at Judge
Rainey's 25th of December
birthday party, mentioned before,
when chance soared in. This is
where Rainey led the group of
Masons to become signatory to the
legal pact in an attempt to
control wireless telephoning. He
used one of his famous,
authoritatively booming, southern
drawl speeches, to move the laid
back group of men from Murray
into action.
-----
With
four years of experience behind
them in ridding themselves of
Nathan's first group of fast
talking promoters, "was a plus
for Kentucky", said Rainey.
"Imagine, just 14 years ago", he
continued, "Me!, a young teenager
hearing 'Hello Rainey' on the
telephone . . . way across the
orchard, without wires. I was one
of the chosen few to be blessed
to assist Mr. Stubblefield in
those historical moments
throughout 1892 . . . a gift from
heaven."
-----
Holding
the correspondence from
Washington D.C. patent attorney,
E.G. Siggers, Rainey read, "if
your [Stubblefield's]
answers were satisfactorily
complied with, the government
would issue you
[Stubblefield] the
Wireless Telephone patent, that
would be designed to grant him
the total control of the rights
to the trademark "wireless
telephone". The expiration date
of the Patent would be 1925. It
would include all forms for
wireless transmissions to and
from all moving vehicles, that
included ships, trains, aircraft
and anything going to the office
and living room that needed his
aerial.
-----
Once
again, the 31-year-old Judge
Rainey assisted in giving hope to
the dreams of Nathan in making
Murray a noteworthy place on the
map. Rainey charged up the men
from Murray into a scrappy "big
six" team that was about to take
control of the greatest wireless
monopoly in the world. When
finished, they were all ready to
take the Northerners on. Rainey
coined the word "racers" for the
group's emergency code name. With
the exception of Rainey's name,
it was agreed each name would
appear on the Wireless Telephone
Patent. The Agreement was signed
on January 1, 1907.
-----For
decades, "Radio" has disguised
itself as wireless telephony,
wireless telegraphy, television,
electricity, and in the word
"radio", itself. "Imagine
yourself speaking and listening
to a "phony" -- said the radio DJ
through his one-way wireless
microphone. It's a bad pet
name.
-----In
the five part series; "Capt.
Billy", "Radio Boy", "N.B.
Stubblefield", "Flip Flop", and
"The Phony Craze", Troy has found
himself inextricably drawn to the
slippery slopes of a baffling
human interest story going back
in time to the beginning of their
"'phony" era. The eventful
episodes, are centered around
Murray, Kentucky, before the name
"wireless telephony" -- was by
the stroke of a pen, officially
split into the watchword "radio",
before radio frequencies became a
monopoly controlled by
governments.
-----
Armed
with his Tiananmen Square
experiences and Chancy's
LookRadio, as a common language,
Troy becomes a real family member
to his grandfather, Nathan B.
Stubblefield and the rest of the
SMART-DAAF BOYS, he describes as
frugal participatories that
"freed" ground electromagnetic
wireless energy.
-----
Clearly,
it was Nathan's ability to
extract a continuous flow of
electricity from the earth that
commenced the continuous tidal
wave of money making
opportunities, reaching
neighborhoods, ships and vehicles
missed by telephone land lines.
In his four volume Radio/TV book
set, Troy lucidly explains, none
of the Smart-Daaf Boys,
Stubblefield, Marconi, Ambrose
Fleming, Reginald Fessenden,
Tesla, DeForest, Alexanderson,
Armstrong or Farnsworth, had ever
heard of the 'DotCom" craze,
"Sunkissed Lemons", or the word
"Hollywood content". *(See
Footnote.)
*
-----Needless
to say, if they would have had a
wise, sweet-natured mother like
Chancy's, she would have moved
them close to Hollywood, to study
with the marketing folks to give
sexy names to their wireless
electromagnetic wave inventions.
The name game would have
clarified which end and part of
the frequency spectrum they were
selling to investors.
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life and times of Nathan
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