Re: History

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

 > "Tesla has been linked to Einstein because of a famous photo which was
 > taken on April 23, 1921 in New Brunswick, New Jersey in celebration of a
 > new RCA transatlantic broadcasting station that was being put in
operation.
 > Present at the event were scientists and corporate heads from RCA, GE and
 > AT&T including Charles Steinmetz, Irving Langmuir, David Sarnoff and
Albert
 > Einstein. Standing in between Steinmetz and Einstein was a man who
 > resembled Nikola Tesla. I, myself, thought it was Tesla, and wrote an
 > article which included this assumption for the 1986 ITS Symposium.
Margaret
 > Cheney and also R.G. Williams in their respective biographies also did the
 > same thing.

Sarnoof and Langmuir.. no wonder some other of those faces look familiar.

 >
 > After conferring with Leland Anderson and searching back to original
 > sources which included the an article in the New York Herald, and the
 > original caption for the photo, it has been determined that the man
 > standing between Einstein and Steinmetz was one John Carson, who was an
 > engineer for AT&T. This photo has also been doctored to air-brush out all
 > individuals except for Einstein and Steinmetz by the GE people who use it
 > to imply a special relationship between Steinmetz and Einstein."


Carson, as in "Carson's rule" for FM bandwidth?

Even if Tesla isn't in the picture, it's certainly a real collection of
heavy hitters from the early electronics business.