Radio Broadcasting Quotes
This quotation illustrates two things. First, Mrs. Roosevelt always donated the fees and royalties from her books, newspaper column and radio shows. Second, it seems incredible to us today, that this first lady organized the social schedule of the White House, wrote a daily newspaper column for years, authored a number of books, and had her own radio show—all while she was First Lady. She had the additional role of traveling about the nation, observing and giving speeches and press conferences as a proxy for FDR whose polio handicap made traveling very difficult. She also wrote or orally reported to her husband the material aspects of each of her trips, although she was so open that he and everyone else could read about it in the newspapers. She did all this with a staff of only 2 people. There has probably been no one in the history American politics, perhaps other than Thomas Jefferson, who was so busy and productive.
He had a plan to not only transmit the signals but also transmit the electrical power to run the portable devices. Tesla was one of the great American immigrant scientists. He found in America the kind of intellectual and operational freedom that did not exist in the rigid, monarch-controlled, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He developed patents and techniques that formed the technological bases of radio, telephone long distance, TV, cell phones, Wi Fi, just to name a few. Most important he was Thomas Edison’s great nemesis. Edison invented DC electric generators that could power factories or entire streets in a neighborhood. Tesler invented and developed AC electrical technology which could power entire cities and he could move electricity over long distances which Edison could not. Tesler was one of the first scientists to conceive of and try to implement “Big Science” where there were huge capital investments to develop machines and systems to do what had never been done before—philosophically like the CERN Hadron Collider. Tesler even convinced a large corporation to finance the construction of a massive building and tower so he could experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity. However, as the industrial democracies have learned, Big Science can only be funded by governments and it often takes sever working in consort to afford the huge investment that is required. In Tesler’s era, the federal and state governments did not fund scientific research so his work was not only technically ahead of his time but also conceptually. He anticipated most of the problems and need for a national power grid that was challenging America even at the beginning of the 21st century.
