In article .com, jon_banquer
says...

I would suggest you read the Tesla book I mentioned and find out what
really happened in regards to Marconi. It's very well covered. Marconi
lost the major patent law suits to Tesla until the U.S. government in a
time or war.....

American Marconi ceased to exist after ww1. This was basically
by agreement of all parties concerned. The end result of this
was RCA, a corporation that was conceived of and created pretty
much out of whole cloth by US government regulators.

The point was that at the time, the US had no reliable means
to communicate with europe besides some sketchy, vulnerable
translantic cables. Other than, the alexanderson alternators
that were owned by marconi co.

Foreign ownership of infrastructure like that was unacceptable
to the government. But IIRC everyone came away from the deal
happy.

Jim


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