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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

by Robert J. Shiller · 14 Oct 2019 · 611pp · 130,419 words

the fifteenth century, the invention of newspapers in Europe in the seventeenth century, the invention of the telegraph and telephone in the nineteenth century, the invention of radio and television in the twentieth, and the rise of the Internet and social media have all fundamentally altered the nature of contagion, but to date

Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

by Paul Sen · 16 Mar 2021 · 444pp · 111,837 words

the subject in 1873. That analysis not only described all electric and magnetic phenomena, but it would reveal the true nature of light, enable the invention of radio, and inspire Einstein’s work on relativity. In addition, in 1871, Maxwell was appointed the first head of Cambridge University’s new physics laboratory, the

The Power Makers

by Maury Klein · 26 May 2008 · 782pp · 245,875 words

theoretical knowledge of their nature remained far from complete.64 Stupendous discoveries and developments flowed from Maxwell’s concepts. They led most directly to the invention of radio and more abstractly to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. At the time, however, many physicists shrank from Maxwell’s argument despite its solid grounding

Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words

likes of Edison and Carnegie, kept hammering the U.S. Patent Office until, in 1904, it reversed course and gave Marconi a patent for the invention of radio: “The reasons for this have never been fully explained, but the powerful financial backing for Marconi in the United States suggests one possible explanation.”43

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

preventing a take-off of a free hardware movement. Despite the difficulties, some comfort can be taken in remembering that the personal computer was the invention of radio amateurs and hippies. And a few hardware projects are up and running at the time of writing. OpenCores is a portal gathering of about 2000

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words

,” O’Gieblyn writes: Humans, through their use of tools and mechanization, were now in a position to direct the course of their own evolution. The invention of radio, television, and other forms of mass communication had created complex global networks that facilitated more intricate and intimate connections between individual minds.… Teilhard set out

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

by Ryan North · 17 Sep 2018 · 643pp · 131,673 words

back as 179 BCE. All the research I found suggests the date here is at best an informed guess! 34 This suggestion that the early invention of radio could’ve saved a lot of time messing around trying to invent clocks that work on boats has been put forward before! I encountered it

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

by W. Bernard Carlson · 11 May 2013 · 733pp · 184,118 words

, 4 August 1915; NT, Radio Testimony; Peterson quote is from http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/q&a_022.htm; Leland I. Anderson, Priority in the Invention of Radio—Tesla vs. Marconi (Breckenridge, CO: Twenty-First Century Books, n.d.); A. David Wunsch, “Misreading the Supreme Court: A Puzzling Chapter in the History of

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch

by Lewis Dartnell · 15 Apr 2014 · 398pp · 100,679 words

an appropriate tilth has been prepared, the next step is to put seeds into the ground. The original meaning of “broadcast”—coined centuries before the invention of radio or TV—is scattering seeds far and wide, tossing them from a sack as you walk back and forth across the field. You can distribute

Tesla: Man Out of Time

by Margaret Cheney · 1 Jan 1981 · 478pp · 131,657 words

Tesla Society,* a coauthor of the annotated Dr. Nikola Tesla Bibliography (San Carlos, Ca., Ragusan Press, 1979), and author of the monograph, “Priority in the Invention of Radio—Tesla v. Marconi.” Mr. Anderson’s research and scholarly works on Tesla have been a major interest of his life. An electrical engineer and former

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, that appeared in the Electrical Experimenter and Science & Invention, formerly published by Hugo Gernsback. And to Leland Anderson for permission to quote from “Priority in Invention of Radio, Tesla v. Marconi,” Antique Wireless Association, March 1980. In addition the author is indebted to the Nikola Tesla Museum for words quoted from Colorado Springs

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, Marconi, and Pupin are the Consulting Engineers of the American Company.” There it was—the three of them in cahoots to cheat him of his invention of radio. Tesla wrote to Robert pretending to feel optimism about the damages he might recover in such a suit, saying, “I am delighted to learn from

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to transmit electricity wirelessly. He did not confuse them. 17. THE GREAT RADIO CONTROVERSY Errors once committed to print are stubborn. With respect to the invention of radio, they have permeated many reference sources, histories of science, scientific biographies, and popular journals. The confusion—partly caused by Tesla himself—was officially cleared up

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, referred to in the United States Supreme Court case, are from Tesla’s 1893 lecture and are frequently cited as evidence supporting his claim of invention of radio. Anderson points out that some have confused the argument with respect to the principles of transmission and reception of radio signals with the matter of

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transmitting voice—an important improvement made practical by DeForest’s Audion, or triode vacuum tube. “In a discussion of priority in the invention of radio, one must be very specific about definitions,” he writes. “In the . . . case of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. United States (which was

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wireless patents was waged back and forth for decades, and little wonder that confusion ensued. A thorough account is contained in Anderson’s “Priority of Invention of Radio—Tesla vs. Marconi,” a monograph for The Antique Wireless Association (New Series) No. 4, March 1980. Anderson reports that radio pioneer Major Armstrong added an

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now be struggling to keep a hotel roof over his head. It was outrageous that he was being deprived of reward and honor for his invention of radio while others commercialized it; that he had received little credit for lighting inventions that were profiting others; that electrotherapeutics, adapted by more practical men from

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L. I. Anderson (San Carlos, California, Ragusan Press, 1979), for it contains some 3,000 sources of writings by and about Tesla. “Priority in the Invention of Radio, Tesla v. Marconi” by Leland Anderson may be obtained through the Antique Wireless Association, Monograph New Series No. 4. A new means of analyzing Tesla

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the United States, Vol. 320, Oct. Term, 1942: Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America v. United States, pp. 1–80; L. I. Anderson, “Priority in Invention of Radio, Tesla v.Marconi,” Antique Wireless Assn., March 1980, monograph; see also abbreviated translation, Voice of Canadian Serbs, Chicago, July 16, 1980. 10.United States Reports