John Stone Stone John Stone Stone, engineer and inventor, was born in Dover, Virginia on September 24, 1869. He spent his first several years of life in Egypt and in the Mediterranean, because of his father’s career. Charles P. Stone, father of John, Chief of Staff to the Khedive of Egypt spent over 12 years in Egypt building up an Egyptian army in the west. In late 1882, the British took over Egypt, and Stone resigned his position and returned to the United States where he was hired as chief engineer for the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
When their family returned to the United States, Stone attended Columbia Grammar School in New York City for three years and between 1886 and 1888 was an undergraduate at the Columbia University …show more content…
Stone Stone continued his great interest of the telephone, the great transmission of the human voice, and space waves. He founded his own company February of 1907, and was named The Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers. SWTE was unfortunately an unsuccessful business due to lack of availability to radio an adequate group of the physical tools to enable the business to grow. Stone was directed to the Radio field by Radio Pioneer Macaroni’s experiments of Lodge and the adaptation of space electric waves to the purposes of practical communication. It was during this time that Stone became persistent on increasing oscillation of radio waves by the use of highly resonant closed circuits loosely coupled to the antennas and pointed the way to the more highly selective phase of radio. (This was one of his granted patents, after his death.) Stone continued to make important technical contributions, to the continuous wave operation of the space radio, and the attaining of radiotelephony. And gained his many …show more content…
During this time he had started the original contributions of high frequency long distance directive transmission. With this early contribution it was stated as the greatest of this series of inventions, an antenna array in which vertical directivity is imparted to the beam for the first time by means of dipoles stacked vertically, one above the other. Yet another patent in the early years of short wave long distance art. People tend to say that Stone may be the father of the three-dimensional antenna
When their family returned to the United States, Stone attended Columbia Grammar School in New York City for three years and between 1886 and 1888 was an undergraduate at the Columbia University …show more content…
Stone Stone continued his great interest of the telephone, the great transmission of the human voice, and space waves. He founded his own company February of 1907, and was named The Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers. SWTE was unfortunately an unsuccessful business due to lack of availability to radio an adequate group of the physical tools to enable the business to grow. Stone was directed to the Radio field by Radio Pioneer Macaroni’s experiments of Lodge and the adaptation of space electric waves to the purposes of practical communication. It was during this time that Stone became persistent on increasing oscillation of radio waves by the use of highly resonant closed circuits loosely coupled to the antennas and pointed the way to the more highly selective phase of radio. (This was one of his granted patents, after his death.) Stone continued to make important technical contributions, to the continuous wave operation of the space radio, and the attaining of radiotelephony. And gained his many …show more content…
During this time he had started the original contributions of high frequency long distance directive transmission. With this early contribution it was stated as the greatest of this series of inventions, an antenna array in which vertical directivity is imparted to the beam for the first time by means of dipoles stacked vertically, one above the other. Yet another patent in the early years of short wave long distance art. People tend to say that Stone may be the father of the three-dimensional antenna