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RE: Tesla not Marconi
From: Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:33 PM
To: Tesla List
Cc: MVacc90255-at-aol-dot-com
Subject: Re: Tesla not Marconi
On Tuesday, September 16, 1997 5:22 AM Robert Krampf
[SMTP:KRAMPF-at-aol-dot-com] wrote;
> Hi All!
>
> I am new here and have been sitting quietly in the corner for the past week,
> absorbing the wealth of information. When I saw Alfred A. Skrocki's post I
> had to respond.
>
> In a message dated 9/16/97 5:09:03 AM, Alfred A. Skrocki wrote:
>
> <<Now you cooking! I might add that the deplorable educational system
> in this country still insists that Marconi was the inventor of radio,
> so much so that my daughter was suspended when she bought in a copy
> of the Supreme court decision that Tesla NOT Marconi was the rightful
> inventor of radio!
> Tell me more about your daughter's ordeal. I teach teachers how to do
> hands-on science and would love to use this as an example of why we need to
> "unlearn" all of the old myths.
>
> I have been using a Tesla coil for science programs for 13 years and was
> delighted when I found this group.
Hi Robert, what essentially happened was that my daughter wrote a
short paper on Dr. Tesla for a school project and the teacher gave
her an F because she said that Tesla NOT Marconi was the actual
inventor of radio. My daughter responded to the teacher (in class)
stating that she could prove her statement with U.S. Government
documents and asked what proof the teacher could offer. The teacher
responded with the statement that she was the teacher and didn't have
to prove anything. My daughter then called her a pampas ass and was
promptly suspended. I in response sent a letter to the Philadelphia
Board of Education enclosing the following;
On June 21, 1943 The United States Supreme Court made a
landmark decision that essentially settled the long dispute
between Marchese Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla. The
court's decision on Case No. 369, identified as "Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. United States,"
rendered invalid Marconi's basic patent No. 763,772 dated June
28, 1904. Deciding that Tesla's patent No. 645,576 of March 20,
1900, and its subdivision patent for apparatus No. 649,621
dated May 15, 1900, had priority.
To find the actual Supreme Court Case on the Internet WWW,
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/fsearch.htm
and search on the words "marconi" and "wireless"
Select this one:
Case Name: MARCONI WIRELESS CO. V. U.S., 320 U.S. 1 NO. 369.
ARGUED APRIL 9, 12, 1943. DECIDED JUNE 21, 1943. - 99 CT.CLS.
1, AFFIRMED IN PART.
In 1893 Tesla made the first "wireless" transmission before the
National Electric Light Association in St. Louis, and it is
this essential understanding that exists today in all modern
radios.
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was the first to send a message
across the ocean, and as a result of his business interests
later, he is partly responsible for 'developing' radio -- but
he did not invent it.
Approximately on week later my daughter recived a public apology in
class and was given an A+ for her original paper. Upon talking to
the teacher at a PTA meeting she responded that she originally
thought my daughter was trying to be a "smart ass" and that when
she received a copy of the letter I sent the Board of Education along
with a letter from the Boards attornies advising her to apologize,
she only then realized my daughter was right. I advised her to
investigate before pouncing on a student in the future, she agreed.
Sincerely
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