Great Moments in Technology, 1892.

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Jan 8
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Calloway County Courthouse, Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky. January 1st. In front of a crowd of spectators, farmer, fruit grower and telegraphic electrician Nathan Beverly Stubblefield (November 22nd, 1860 - March 28th, 1928) successfully demonstrates his wireless device for transmitting voices between two points to Dr. Rainey Thornton Wells (1875-1958), and later from the deck of the steamship Bartholdi on the Potomac, then Philadelphia and New York, but fearing that his patented invention would be stolen, becomes a paranoid hermit, then is found in his shack dead from starvation...

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