19 Oct
2022
19 Oct
'22
12:21 p.m.
Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for "We
Impose
Knowledge Interpretation".
Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by
megalomaniacs, zealots, and abject morons. It's up to people like us to
preserve history as it actually happened, and not as the would-be masters
would have us believe.
This is why we do what we do.
Sellam
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:29 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Armstrong-centric, even if someone or some institution in Europe did it
first.
Yes, but suppression of the story, which is what I experienced when I
tried to update Wikipedia, is not the right answer.
The correct answer is to recognize that (a) Armstrong was NOT first with
FM transmission, (b) Armstrong was first with FM-specific receivers
(discriminator), and (c) the technology direction started by Armstrong is
the one that got traction and evolved into what we have now.
As I mentioned in the opening paragraph of the article, Idzerda's FM
transmitter is like Leif Eriksson's discovery of America -- he did it
first, but it didn't lead to anything. Still, he made a living off a
commercial broadcast venture using his technology for 5 years or so, until
the creation of the BBC made his business uncompetitive.
paul
On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an
article about the invention of FM
radio, in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late
1920s).
>
> That sounds interesting, Paul — I’m only familiar with the usual
USA-centric Armstrong lore. Is your article available to read online
anywhere?
—FritzM.
I’d be interested in the article as well.
There are reasons for the story of FM radio to be US- and