1. George H Sweigert is credited as the first inventor to patent the cordless telephone.
38 Facts About George Sweigert
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George Sweigert credited his military experience for invention of the cordless telephone, citing experimentation with various antennas, signal frequencies, and types of radios.
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The Plain Dealer reported that George Sweigert used a part from his washing machine for the invention - the solenoid used to lift the phone's receiver when a current was sensed in the induction coil.
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George Sweigert, who suffered severe back pain from a war injury, saw the device primarily helping handicapped and elderly people.
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George Sweigert held two amateur radio licenses: W8ZIS and N9LC.
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George Sweigert held the amateur radio extra class license, the highest class license.
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George Sweigert held a First Class Radiotelephone license issued by the Federal Communications Commission.
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George Sweigert's heroes included Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Lee DeForest, Edwin Armstrong, Albert Einstein, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
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George Sweigert was coincidentally born in the same city that hosts the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron, Ohio.
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George Sweigert studied the life stories of these inventors, and he frequently would recount the early technical and legal struggles of these inventors to get their inventions patented and protected.
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Whether Edison could actually perform this telegraphic feat has never documented, but George Sweigert credited this story with his inspiration for a full duplex cordless telephone.
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George Sweigert studied how duplexes reduced frustrations dealing with technologies, going back to the early days of telegraphy.
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George Sweigert admired Alexander Graham Bell's work with the deaf as an inspiration for development of the telephone.
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George Sweigert was physically disabled, and saw the cordless phone as a similar to the telephone in terms of motivation and inspiration for the development of the invention.
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George Sweigert sided with Alexander Graham Bell in the Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy, although Elisha Gray was another Cleveland inventor.
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George Sweigert did credit Gray with being the first to come up with a way of multiplexing several messages simultaneously on the same wire.
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George Sweigert enjoyed the fact that Bell was a complete amateur compared with professional established laboratories of Elisha Gray and super-inventor Thomas Edison.
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George Sweigert greatly admired Edison's work on improving the vibrating diaphragm to vary the induced resistance from varying frequency in the voice.
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George Sweigert frequently cited Bell besting Edison on the invention of the telephone as Edison's motivation to invent the phonograph.
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George Sweigert credited being able to visualize human voice waveforms as another key in perfecting the cordless phone.
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George Sweigert admired Edwin Armstrong and his invention of FM radio.
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George Sweigert admired Armstrong's courage to challenge the status quo of AM radio and its powerful leader, David Sarnoff.
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George Sweigert envisioned a home where all kinds of devices generated "message wavelets" to share the electromagnetic spectrum, foreshadowing Ethernet.
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George Sweigert's philosophy was "the simpler, the better, as could be understood by a child".
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George Sweigert often recounted Albert Einstein's experience of reading a children's story about a child racing a telegraph signal going through a wire.
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George Sweigert predicted that half of the people in the world would own a wireless phone in the time of his children.
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George Sweigert predicted integrated cameras, GPS, accelerometers, and other advanced sensors in the 1969 Moon lander would be integrated into the wireless phone.
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George Sweigert received notice of his patent approval on day of the first Moon landing on June 20,1969.
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George Sweigert greatly admired Philo Farnsworth for his invention of television, and more specifically his work with the cathode ray tube and the electronic amplifier.
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George Sweigert nicknamed his oscilloscope in his home electronics lab "Philo" in honor of Philo Farnsworth, critical to George Sweigert for visualizing his "word worms".
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George Sweigert admired Farnsworth for his ability to challenge RCA, founding the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1938.
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George Sweigert sympathized with the soldiers fighting in the Vietnam jungles which were similar to the jungle conditions he fought in at Guadalcanal and Bougainville Island in the Second World War.
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George Sweigert was fascinated by the development of the integrated circuit and its potential uses to reduce the size of electronic products.
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George Sweigert taught electronics at the vocational college level in his later years for ITT Technical Institute in Fort Wayne despite his physical disability.
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George Sweigert credited ITT for purchasing the Farnsworth Television from Philo Farnsworth, enabling him to finally receive compensation for his invention.
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George Sweigert sympathized with the struggles in the later life of Edwin Armstrong and wanted to avoid a similar fate in his own life.
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George Sweigert admired Guglielmo Marconi for his work with wireless telegraphy.
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George Sweigert was internally conflicted on whether Nikola Tesla or Marconi should be credited with the invention of radio.