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Frederick Collins Was A Working • • Like
Prof. Frederick Collins, several of the
technical visionaries who followed the
patent filings of the Smart Daaf Boys, had
formed partnerships with several of the
Smart Daaf Boys, and then sub-licensed
their asset to a few choice businessmen
with marketing expertise, who were more
interested in making a killing in printing
wireless stock than in building successful
companies that was to manufacture wireless
telephone goods, product and services for
the consumer. The cost of stamps in
sending a stock certificate or two was
much cheaper, "than sending radio tubes
orders", said the stock promoter for
DeForest. Stock
Fraud In
December, 1911 four officers of the
Continental Co. were indicted for using
the mails to defraud in selling worthless
stock. According
to the trial records, they were charged
with 5 counts in: 1.
Selling worthless stock in the Collins
Wireless Telephone Co. Get
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Partner
and developer of Nathan B. Stubblefield
wireless voice broadcasting system. Nathan
was given stock in the Collins
Corporations in exchange for
Stubblefield's 1908 "Wireless Telephone"
Canada Patent rights.
It
had been two years since Marconi's
December1901
wireless "S" Dit Dah transmission across
the Atlantic ocean, and his meeting with
Nathan B. Stubblefield during Nathan's
wireless voice transmission in
Philadelphia in May 1902. Wireless
Telephony and Telegraphy, though still in
it's infancy, held great promise for the
future for the Smart-Daaf Boys which
included men with names like
Stubblefield
•
Marconi
•
Ambrose
Fleming •
Reginald
Fessenden •
Tesla
•
DeForest
•
Armstrong
•
Alexanderson
and •
Farnsworth.
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With
the exception of Stubblefield, all were
focused on Dit Dah transmissions, using
electric spark devices to make wireless a
commercially viable alternative to the
wired telegraph which used Morse Code Dit
Dah signals to talk to each other.
Stubblefield on the other hand, perfected
and developed a system to transmit voice
from moving vehicles, vessels and trains,
that if need be, could utilize existing
telephone pole connections to broadcasting
and make phone calls into the home and
office, any where in the world, like
today's Internet. Collins saw the
connection and included the Stubblefield
patents in his product and marketing
designs.
-----At
the same time, a much smaller group was
attempting to take wireless to the next
logical step for wireless telephone,
broadcasting. In May, 1903, one of
these men, A. Frederick Collins, formed
the Collins Marine Wireless Telephone Co.,
and soon after changed the name of the
company to Collins Wireless Telephone
Co. His wireless system was built
under a licensing agreement from
Stubblefield. known as the Idea Wireless
System. It featured coils of insulated
wire four to five feet in diameter and 3
types of portable wireless telephones
demonstrated in 1902 by Stubblefield. The
transmitting coil carried current
modulated by a microphone, which produced
a magnetic field that varied with the
speech of the speaker. The varying
magnetic field produced an electric
current in the receiving coil aerial
placed nearby, reproducing the speaker's
voice in a companion telephone
receiver.
----- Collins
toured the United States. putting on
demonstrations and selling stock in the
Collins Wireless Telephone Co. He
overstated
claims
about his technology and was vocal in
predicting the downfall of telegraph
stocks such as Marconi. He usually
rented two adjoining rooms in a hotel for
the demonstration, placing the coils on
opposite sides of a wall. He would invite
celebrities and government officials to
demonstrate the apparatus. These
demonstrations were spectacular and
resulted in appreciable stock sales.
Unfortunately the money received was used
by Collins and his partners to cover the
expenses of marketing their stock and to
promote further speculation, not for
building the assets of the company for the
benefit of the stockholders.
-----From
1900 to 1909 Collins wrote an incredible
number of technical
articles
for science and trade journals, as well as
best selling wireless books including
"Wireless Telegraphy" (1905), "Manual of
Wireless Telephony and Telegraphy" (1909),
and "Design and Construction of Induction
Coils" (1909.)
-----In
1908 Collins issued a two part catalogue
which described the patented Stubblefield
equipment in the first part, and a pure
wireless set in the second part, which
included a super-charge coil aerial. He
used an arc to generate the carrier and
modulated it by a carbon microphone to
transmit signals. It could only transmit
Dit Dahs and not voice, said Stubblefield
in 1908, and the reasons why he got into
trouble setting up stations. He claimed
this unit could span a distance of eighty
miles with a power of 2.4 KW.
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The
company had a small shop in Newark. N.J.
where demonstration equipment was built,
but little apparatus was ever sold. In
December, 1909 Collins Wireless Telephone
Company became a part of the Continental
Wireless Tel. & Tel. Company, with A.
Frederick Collins as Technical Director.
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The
stock prospectus promised A Collins
wireless telephone was to be installed in
each Continental station. None were
installed.
2. Persuading owners of Collins stock to
buy worthless Continental stock.
3. Selling worthless bonds of the
Continental Co.
4. Selling worthless Continental stock.
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In
addition, A. Frederick Collins was charged
with giving a fraudulent demonstration of
his wireless telephone on Oct. 14, 1909 at
the Electrical Show in Madison Square
Garden, New York, for the purpose of
selling stock in the Collins Wireless
Telephone Co.
-----It
was developed at the trial that the four
Collins officers had claimed in their
prospectus that the Collins wireless
telephone had been perfected to such an
extent that in a community equipped with
it, any two subscribers could talk to each
other with total exclusion of all other
subscribers, that the Collins wireless
telephone would do away with all central
exchanges. the necessity for wire lines,
etc., that an automobile so equipped would
be in constant touch with a garage so as
not to be stranded in case of trouble,
that because of the lower cost of the
wireless telephone, with no wires needed,
the telephone and telegraph systems would
soon be put out of business and that the
demand for the equipment would increase so
rapidly that the stock price would quickly
increase. Click here
to see an example of these
claims.
-----Four
officers were convicted on all five
counts. Three were fined and sentenced on
January 10. 1913. to prison terms of up to
four years. This was the end of the
Continental Wireless Tel. & Tel.
Co.
-----A.
Frederick Collins was sentenced to three
years in jail in Atlanta. After serving
one year he was released on parole. Before
his conviction he had been a respected
engineer, considered an authority on
wireless in general and a specialist in
wireless telephony. In his later career he
wrote books on electricity and wireless
for teenagers, including The Collins Radio
Amateurs Handbook.
-----
The
collapse of Continental was mirrored by
the downfall of other companies such as
United Wireless and DeForest. The era of
bogus stock selling had come to an end.
"Wireless
Communication in the United States", The
New England Wireless and Steam Museum,
1989
The
Story of the Wireless Telephone",
Collins Wireless Telephone Company,
1909
"Modern Electrics", Vol. 1, No. 5.
"Collins Wireless Telephone", Modern
Electrics Publications
"Modern Electrics", Vol. 1, No. 7.
"Collins Long Distance Wireless
Telephone", Modern Electrics
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