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The first wireless broadcast in the world that transmitted
voice and music into the atmosphere utilizing a radio
frequency, was from a 5 room school
house.
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To be exact, radio at that time was called, "wireless
telephony", and the RF voice broadcast took place in 1892 on
the 85 campus Teléph-on-délgreen. The campus
is now part of Murray State University. MORE
STORY ON
MSU.
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The house pictured
above was converted to a trade school when
theMale & Female
Institute - founded by Nathan's father, Capt. Billy
Stubblefield in 1871,
was expanding its
classroom to include vocational studies. The N.B.
Stubblefield Industrial School was instructing young men the
craft of telephone pole installations, and the art of
creating aerial "hotspots". The aerial, now called antenna,
was required to operate and connect Nathan's NBS wireless
telephone network across America. MORE
STORY ON Territorial Deed for use of
patent.
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The house included a living room, kitchen, and 3 classrooms
that made into bedrooms at night. The water well was on one
side of the house, the out house on the other. The barn that
held 2 horses, a carriage and two cats -- was in the back of
the house.
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But in those days, there was no Internet, electricity,
running water, and no packets of instant cocoa laying around
where all the schoolmarm had to do, was add hot water, turn
the electric switch on -- and poof!
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Teléph-on-délgreen
was established by Nathan, Ada Mae, Capt. Billy and
Clarissa, to help pull the Kentucky economy out of a grave
yard spin. Capt. Billy's goal after the war, was to open
Kentucky's door to education and communications. It was
"just one of the things needed," -- to bring normalicy,
confindence and hope to a once proud Southern society, that
was in the brink of collapse. MORE
STORY ON NBS
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Believe it or not, after the Civil War catastrophe, it
wasn't until 1885, that Kentucky had their first land-line
Telegraphy and Telephony systet. The office was established
by NBS, utilizing his patented Mechanical Telephone system
that didn't require electricity. In fact, the biggest seller
in 1885 for NBS enterprises, was Nathan's "Carrie Lamp
Lighter" -- to help facilitate the use of coal lanterns.
MORE
STORY ON Lighter PATENT.
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"We know the man and his family who lived in this
house that had special soil "hotspots" -- that grew 100
pound watermelons and a few one-pound potatoes," say the
children of Troy Cory-Stubblefield, "because he was our
great-grandfather, Nathan B.
Stubblefield."
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The house that opened its doors to the world of radio,
6
years before Marconi's dit dahs,
(1896) -- is
pictured above with Grandpa Nat, grandmother Ada, and their
other 6 children. Oliver, the father of Troy, is the little
boy standing front row left. Placed in front of the family,
is the first permanent wireless telephone broadcasting
installation in the world, and a few of the photos taken at
his 1902 ship-to-shore demonstrations, held in Philadelphia
and Washington, D.C.
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Not only did grandpa Nat, as our father called him, patent
his grounded firewire RF induction coils that created the
virtual electromagnetic wave antenna lying beneath the
ground surrounding the coils, (1898) -- but these same earth
batteries helped power his perpendicular antenna needed to
send voice through the atmosphere.
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He had been transmitting voice and music from the school
house since 1892, -- utilizing the same virtual antenna RF
induction coil concept with his perpendicular antennas
attached to a grounded earth RF coil. His own NBS mechanical
telephone system, Priscilla pointed out, was patented four
years prior, in
1888.
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NBS was also one of the first men to form a Wireless
Telephone Company, and the first to file and patent the
invention as the Wireless Telephone almost 97 years ago
today, May 12, 1907.
Click to See First Wireless Telephone Patent Drawing and
Movie. 03
/ I've been
thinking a lot about Grandpa Nat lately, not only because of
the anniversary of that hopeful day in 1907, but because of
the recent re-ascendancy of regulatory missteps and the
regulatory seizures of property taken by our government's
various regulatory agencies, then more or less holding the
seized assets under lock and key, until a claim is filed by
the victim or his/her survivors.
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It's the regulatory
agency's fiduciary duty and requirement to pay the owner
first for any seized property, before selling it to the
general public. In a recent Florida Holocaust case, the U.S.
Government's, statue of limitation defense was overruled,
and the U.S., was required to pay the victims and/or their
survivors of stolen art objects, an amount that exceeded
25.5 million USdollars. Also - Click to see Swiss Banks
Payback Jewish Clients from 1.25 billion to Holocaust victim
Fund and see NBS100 report, said attorney, Scott
Stubblefield.
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Although Grandpa Nat wasn't a victim of the holocaust, he
was a victim of those government officials who were, and
still are, in trust of his patent device and the by-products
of those patents they kept under lock and key, until 1996.
Grandpa Nat, became a victim of national security, just like
the inventors and developers of the Atomic Bomb and victims
of the holocaust. "As for our Grandpa Nat, he became a
passionate "secret keeper" -- he defended his commitments
made to his nation, which in turn, lead to his strange death
one year after one of his major wireless telephone patents
expired, in 1928," says Priscilla
Stubblefield.
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It was just twenty-one years earlier, in 1907, just seven
years before the war in Europe started that Grandpa Nat and
his invention were the talk of the town in Washington, D.C.
He had just filed a patent for his new wireless telephone
device that could hook into existing world-wide telegraph
and telephone landlines. In all aspects, my Grandpa's
wireless device and system, describes today's Wi-Fi and the
land-line Internet system. People will soon be asking
themselves, "Do the Americans want to control the Internet
like they did the wired wireless global telecommunications,
in 1907, or lose the dotcom era to the .de, .cn or,
.frs.
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As he was sitting at the desk of his old friend, General
Squier of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, in 1907, it was easy
for the General to persuade Grandpa Nat to make a deal with
the U.S. Army for their exclusive use and control of his
NBS, wireless telephone system. After all is said and done,
says Alden Stubblefield, the U.S. Government owned the Army,
did't it. It just added that extra security NBS needed, to
ensure his future wealth.
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The General was at the height of his powers, in charge of
procuring telecommunication secrets that would help defend
the territorial awards gained from the Spanish American War,
and to keep in constant voice contact with the building of
the Panama Canal, and preparing for the war that was
predicted to happen in Europe on or before
1914.
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The General convinced Grandpa Nat that a few patentable
trade outs, here and there would only enhance the potentials
of what it would be like working with the U.S. Army, as part
of the Signal Corps telecom team. Both the General and NBS
had close associations with Nikola Tesla, George.
Westinghouse, Fessenden, and Prof. Frederick Collins, all
part of the original 1902, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
demonstrations. The General positioned himself to have close
dealings with all of the members of the Smart-Daaf Boys
group, and acted as the intermediary for the inventor,
AT&T, GE, the Marconi Company and Congress. -
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ByLines:
Editors Note
••••••••••t Telephony to
Teleph-on-delgreen / Lochte Review and Exhibit
Updates
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27 Week of 2005 / Reflections on Grandpa Nat, by the
great-grandchildren of N.B. Stubblefield are the comments on
the subject matter chosen by the developers to be featured
in the full length Hollywood film project. The movie's
working title agreed to is: "Firewire and Watermelons".
The personal comments in this 3
part weekly Celebrity Scene News report were made during the
months April, May and June 2005, in Universal City, Ca, to
establish the period before and after NBS filed his patent
application for the Wireless Telephone, 98 years ago, on
April 5, 1907. The film is based on the 1992 four-volume
book set, "N.B. Stubblefield and the Smart-Daaf Boys,
written by Troy Cory-Stubblefield and Josie
Cory-Stubblefield, Library of Congress Catalog Card number:
93-060451. ISBN 1883644-00-3, and the N.B. Stubblefield DVD
Documentary, VRA 4501 to VRA 4503.
