In 1966, as a high school freshman I pored over microfiche of early Scientific Americans and wrote a paper on Nathan B Stubblefield, who first communicated "wireless" using inductionfields, near the Potomac well before Marconi.
His work was ignored, but interestingly similar systems are used to communicate traffic info, etc., to your car radio in tunnels, for example. He became en embittered recluse, and died of starvation in the Tennesee hills. Phew!
His work was ignored, but interestingly similar systems are used to communicate traffic info, etc., to your car radio in tunnels, for example. He became en embittered recluse, and died of starvation in the Tennesee hills. Phew!