Re: History

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>  > "Tesla has been linked to Einstein because of a famous photo which was
>  > taken on April 23, 1921 in New Brunswick, New Jersey in celebration of a
>  > new RCA transatlantic broadcasting station that was being put in
>operation.
>  > Present at the event were scientists and corporate heads from RCA, GE and
>  > AT&T including Charles Steinmetz, Irving Langmuir, David Sarnoff and
>Albert
>  > Einstein. Standing in between Steinmetz and Einstein was a man who
>  > resembled Nikola Tesla. I, myself, thought it was Tesla, and wrote an
>  > article which included this assumption for the 1986 ITS Symposium.
>Margaret
>  > Cheney and also R.G. Williams in their respective biographies also did the
>  > same thing.
>Sarnoof and Langmuir.. no wonder some other of those faces look familiar.
>  >
>  > After conferring with Leland Anderson and searching back to original
>  > sources which included the an article in the New York Herald, and the
>  > original caption for the photo, it has been determined that the man
>  > standing between Einstein and Steinmetz was one John Carson, who was an
>  > engineer for AT&T. This photo has also been doctored to air-brush out all
>  > individuals except for Einstein and Steinmetz by the GE people who use it
>  > to imply a special relationship between Steinmetz and Einstein."
>
>Carson, as in "Carson's rule" for FM bandwidth?

One and the same - "Carson's Rule" first appeared in "J. R. Carson, AT&T, 
"Notes on the Theory of Modulation," Proceedings IRE, Feb 1922, pp. 57-64.

BTW, the reason why Sarnoff (RCA), Carson (AT&T), and GE representatives 
were all at the opening of the large radio station is also interesting. 
After WWI ended, General Electric and AT&T teamed up to form the Radio 
Corporation of America (1919), and Sarnoff was put in charge. Their intent 
was to monopolize the commercial radio industry. However, to their dismay, 
many of the fundamental radio patents contained clauses that permitted 
"amateurs" to use the technology. Competitors took advantage of this 
loophole to gain a foothold. By manufacturing competing equipment as 
"amateurs" (wink, wink), they were eventually able to break the grip of the 
monopoly.
It's really not very clear why Einstein was there, except perhaps to 
provide a heavyweight scientific celebrity for a photo op. And, Tesla 
wasn't invited to this party... :^)

Bert