Photo
Image665: l to r - Nathan B.
Stubblefield & Family, Nikla Tesla,
right/top Troy Cory, Michael Powell, Sam
Donaldson / The family photo includes
N.B. Stubblefield,
("Grandpa Nat"), Ada
Buchanan-Stubblefield, and their other six
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.
03.
Nathan B. Stubblefield, Inventor of the Wireless
Telephone -- A Look at His History •
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In fact, Troy told me a
feature film is now in the works entitled "The
Secret Keeper - Grandpa Nat" - scheduled to be
finished in time for the 100th year of "Wireless."
in 2008. Here's a few items he explained to me,
pointing to the Stubblefield photo
above.
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"The barn that held 2
horses, a carriage, and two cats was in the back of
the house." "To be exact," he said, "radio at that
time was called, 'wireless telephony', and it took
place in 1892 on the 82 acre estate of the N.B.
Stubblefield Industrial School. 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 outhouse on the
other."
•
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"We know the man and his
family who lived in this house, because the man was
my grandfather, Nathan B. Stubblefield," said Troy
Cory-Stubblefield. 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 Buchanan-Stubblefield, and their
other six 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 fire
wire 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.
•
•
He had been transmitting
voice and music from the schoolhouse 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, pointed out Priscilla,
was patented four years prior, in
1888.
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•
Nathan B. Stubblefield 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 on May 12, 1907. 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. 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 U.S.
dollars, according to attorney Scott Stubblefield,
Cory's
son.
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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. 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 worldwide telegraph and telephone
landlines. In all aspects, my Grandpa's wireless
device and system, describes today's Wi-Fi and the
landline 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, didn't it? That 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 parties 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. This is just a highlight of the history
of radio that Nathan B. Stubblefield has created.
There will be more information on this topic later
on.
