Re: Torsion-level myths

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/8/21 9:35:01

Randy, re the Tesla/Edison pair, another that makes great reading is the Armstrong/Sarnoff feud over FM broadcasting. Though the courts finally ruled in Armstrong's favor, it was long after his suicide in despair over how Sarnoff had ruined his reputation and cornered the market, ultimating forming RCA, and leaving the Armstrong estate in a 30-year battle in the courts for what was apparently theirs. Armstrong's broadcast tower, the first FM station in the nation, is a local landmark here and still in use. It came to fame again after 9/11 when network TV in NYC moved their broadcasting there. It's perched high on the Palisades in NJ overlooking Manhattan and the Hudson.