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29. Mär 2015
A dishonest attempt to disparage an American inventor by omossion. SHAME
1 von 1 finden das hilfreich This review is by Edwin Grosvenor "Edwin20850"
Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, the editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine, and the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. His father was Melville Bell Grosvenor, a former president of the National Geographic Society.
This review is from: The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret (Paperback)
This book is well written, like a novel, but it's riddled with errors and omits key facts that are well-known to serious historians of telephone history. Shulman starts out with the premise that Bell stole the patent, and then ignores evidence to the contrary. (Or he didn't research deeply enough to discover even basic facts that contradict his premise).
Rather than steal Gray's idea, Bell had been working on developing the telephone for years. Shulman claims that Bell illicitly saw the patent caveat that Gray filed on Feb. 14, 1876, and copied the drawing of his liquid transmitter. But the historical record shows that Bell drew dozens of drawings of similar-looking liquid transmitters over a span of more than three years before Gray filed his caveat. (These are in the Library of Congress and many can be seen in Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy#Bell.27s_background_and_use_of_liquid_transmitters
In one of the most obvious errors, Shulman was apparently unaware that Bell applied for a patent for a primitive fax machine in 1875 and the application included a drawing of liquid transmitters. The U.S. Patent Office approved Bell's patent with the liquid transmitter ten months before Bell allegedly stole the idea from Gray. (The drawing for patent #161739 is online at the Patent Office.)
What is particularly amusing about the theory of the "stolen liquid transmitter" is the fact that Bell's research for his first two years (more if you count his work in England) was based on following after Helmholtz's tuning fork experiment in which the musical tone of one tuning fork is transmitted to another by sending a current through a wire attached to the first (vibrating) fork with the wire buzzing up and down in a cup of liquid (i.e., a "liquid transmitter"). The second tuning fork, if on the same electric circuit, starts buzzing the same tone. Bell had drawn variants on this idea over and over in his notebooks, and these drawings look very similar to the ones of the liquid transmitter in March 1876 that he is supposed to have copied from Gray.
That is why not a single engineering historian that I know of thinks Shulman's theory of the "stolen liquid transmitter" holds any water.
The "smoking gun" that Shulman claimed to have discovered -- the terrible secret kept long hidden by a conspiracy of Bell descendants -- was the testimony of Zenas Wilbur, the patent examiner who claimed that Bell bribed him to reveal the Gray patent. But Wilbur's affidavit is hardly a secret. In fact, it was the central testimony in one of the most notorious trials in US. history, highly publicized at the time, and discussed in every serious book about the telephone.
Wilbur's testimony was key evidence in a dramatic suit brought by the U.S. government against Bell that accused the inventor of committing fraud in obtaining the telephone patent. But the author of this book NEVER MENTIONS that the suit was instigated by the office of Augustus Garland, the U.S. Attorney General at the time, who owned 500,000 shares of stock in the Pan-Electric Te
16. Jan 2018
Can't wait for the next and last CD to be released by the family.
2 von 2 finden das hilfreich This CD is worth the price just for Gypsy Boy. Hendrix uses almost all of his trademark riffs in just the beginning of the song. Listen fast. Right up to him playing the guitar with his teeth.
12. Nov 2014
Buy it............Something for everybody..................Kratz
I'm not pretending to be a Hendrix expert but I know what I like. I like Hendrix and I like the blues so this collection seemed to be a natural. I heard a snippit of Blue Window somewhere and sought it out. I was previously unreleased but I found it in this collection. After enjoying this CD a few time, I have fallen in love with Jimmy's guitar work on Midnight Lightning. The extensive booklet that comes with the CD, says Midnight Lightning was previously released ,as part of South Saturn Delta. The recently released Valleys of Neptune CD features Crying Blue Rain which I also consider to be beautiful examples of the mans talent in performing as well as composing, and singing at the same time. Long live Hendrix.