OT inventors...was - filePro Programmer

[Greg Annucci]

Bill Vermillion wrote the following on 2/24/2005 4:42 PM:

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> 
> 
> Actually Grey should have done that as Bell appears to have
> 'stolen' his patent - beating him by only a few hours.
> 
> There have been more that one technological advances where the
> original inventor got cheated out of their ideas.
> 
> Does the name Philo Farnsworth ring a bell.  A single person going
> up against 'the general' at RCA didn't have a chance.
> 
> Then there was Edwin Armstrong who was also equally screwed over.
> 
> Those two are responsible for major adancments in major devices
> in use today.  Farnsworth for TV and Armstrong for FM
> 
> Bill
> 
IIRC wasn't there some sort of dispute between Marconi and Nikola Tesla 
on who invented radio communication? I don't remember the details but it 
was something like Marconi just copied the ideas of radio broadcast and 
reception from Tesla who invented them almost 10 years earlier.

Greg