[Pactor] FW: How I met Dr MAHLON LOOMIS INVENTOR OF RADIO /JSm N3RF

[Johan Svanholm]

> [Original Message]
> From: Johan Svanholm <n3rf at earthlink.net>
> To: <k3csx at arrl.net>; <coachmona at yahoo.com>
> Date: 3/6/2006 10:50:09 AM
> Subject: How I met Dr MAHLON LOOMIS INVENTOR OF RADIO /JSm N3RF
>
> For MARCH CLUB Mini-News   March 6, 2006  
> Att Fred Bader K3CSX Editor
>                                    How I met -
>            “Dr Mahlon Loomis – Inventor of Wireless Radio”.
>                        By Johan K. V. Svanholm, N3RF
> My story started when I became a Radio Amateur in 1947 in Sweden.  I was
SM6AFC/ When QSL cards was coming in, I discovered cards that said from
Russia that said “POPOV – Inventor of Radio” and that disturbed me greatly
since I KNEW and was certain the my Hero, MARCONI was it.
> When I came to the USA and settled  here in the Nations Capital I became
aware of new information that was available.
> As President for the combined Radio Club NBS and HDL I created a
colloquium with a monthly speaker one of which was Thomas Appleby. He was
an old time radio guy, was a column writer for AUTOCALL  for FAR with his
column called “Hither and Thither” etc. He gave a talk about the Dentist 
who experimented with 400 ft Aerials and transmitted 18 miles right outside
Washington in the Northern Virginia Mountains and demonstrated it to
Members of Congress and in 1872 got his Patent and one year later his
Corporate Charter called “Loomis Aerial Telegraph Corporation”. Was I
surprised. 
> At that time Thomas had founded “Loomis Scientific Research Foundation” a
N-P corporation of D.C. and by that time I had also started mine “Svanholm
Research Laboratories” 1966.
>
> Renah Camalier was his and later mine Incorporation Lawyer.
> Mr. Camalier was a former member of the “Cuff Link Gang” who guided FDR
during his campaign running for President USA and later got together to
cheer him up at the FDR birthday events. So when Thomas Appleby was ready
to turn his Corporation OFF in 1970, I told him no-way. I will be glad to
put it on the shelf under my Corporate Umbrella and see what I can do with
it later. 
> Then 1972 came along, 100 years after Loomis Patent. One day in March I
went down to the US Library of Congress and asked the Key Question: WHO IS
MAHLON LOOMIS ??. One Curator came up and showed me the File, Who is who in
Science, Pictures and Patent and so forth. Then I asked: How about some
kind of Anniversary of 100 Years ?? Well the Curator said – “call me back
in a week, we do exhibits all the time”. So in the entire month of July,
1972 in the Annex  with three display cases were 55 documents with one
giant Horse Shoe magnet with some 40 turns of heavy copper wire that was on
loan from the Smithsonian. 
> The news release I still show at the Hamfests where I make the book
“Mahlon Loomis Inventor of Radio” that Thomas Appleby wrote (c 1967) for
$25 . I also have the web site http://n3rf.home.netcom.com for the details
of the Loomis story. In conclusion we have learned that for every
innovation there are others getting the idea ready for “Taking off” and You
can be sure that Popov and all the others  did something worth remembering
and be proud over. Even the Marconi Company History of, that William J
Baker wrote and published in 1971 (St martin Press) talks about Dr Loomis
work on Page 22. A great book. Did You know that Marconi never sold a radio
?? (The UK Tel Co had a Monopoly so Marconi “lent his men and equipment
out” all those years.) Hi
>
> Regards from Johan-in-Washington, N3RF, Chm 
>
> Svanholm Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 81, Washington, D.C. 20044
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> My background: LME, JHU/APL.HDL-AMC,NOL,AMO-REO/SRL/LSRF 
> PE in DC, Lobby  HILL, Notary MD, SM IEEE, AOC. WOA, ARRL, 
> N3RF, V73RF, SOWP,GOOD SAM Club, EAA, MAARC, MARC, 
> STOCKHOLM Univ, MD Univ, CATHOLIC Univ, etc.
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