Sunday, December 12, 2010
Almanac of Absurdities 12/12
Guglielmo Marconi receives…maybe…the first transatlantic radio signal on this date in 1901 at Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland. When told, Nicola Tesla sniffs that Marconi was using seventeen of Tesla’s Patents to do so. 1939, Battle of Tolvajärvi. Finns ice Soviets in the first major victory of the Winter War. Birthdays: Henry Wells of Wells Fargo, Frank Sinatra.
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And, eventually (a few months after his death,) Nikola Tesla had his original patents for radio reinstated by SCOTUS.
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