• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

28 Marconi memo on experimental licenses, September 27,1922, BBC WAC, CO 58/1, CO 1/2, p. io and September 12, 1922; Hansard, Commons, 164, p. 2192 (June 6,1923); Briggs, History, 1:53; RMA, POST 33/7o4, September 20, 1922.

29 Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, III, §2340.

3o Hansard, Commons, 157, pp. 706-7 (July 27, 1922); RMA, POST 33/704, March 23-April 3,1923; "Wireless Handicaps," Observer, December 31, 1922; Marconi memo, September 27, 1922: BBC WAC, CO 58/1. For the Danubian case, see also Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, I, §1736.

31 RMA, POST33/7o3, May 18,1922; Hansard, Commons, 157, pp. 1951-64 (August 4, 1922).

32 Daily Mail, March 26,1923; F. W. Challis and A. H. Rose, Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, II, §1232 May 29,1923); Daily Express, April 5,1923.

33 BBC WAC, CO 1/2, p. io and September 12, 1922.

34 Marconi memo, September 27, 1922, BBC WAC, CO 58/r; Report on meeting with N. Chamberlain, February 15,1923, BBC WAC, CO 7/1-

35 F.J. Brown, Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, I, unpaginated; Daily Mail April 11, 1923.

36 RMA, POST 33/704, September 16, 1922.

37 Briggs, History, 147,150-51.

38 Briggs, History, 146; Hansard, Commons, 16o, pp. 661-62 (February 19, 1923),1794 (February 27,1923); 162, p. 2241(April 19,1923).

39 F. Ruffin, Report onScientific Property (Geneva, Switzerland: Kundig, 1923).

40 On the distinction of expertise, see P. White, Thomas Huxley: Making the `Man of,Science" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); I. R. Morus, When Physics Became King (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 20o5); R. Yeo, Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); and G.J. N. Gooday, The Morals ofMeasurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

41 Sykes, Report, 21-22.

42 Marconi memo, September 27, 1922, BBC WAC, CO 58/I.

43 Swinton testimony, in Sykes evidence, RMAPOST 89/18, III, §§2307-45On the importance of teamwork in American scientific identity at this point, see S. Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008),19o-97.

44 Minutes, April 12, 1923, BBC WAC, CO 7/1-

45 RMA, POST 33/1080 (Sykes evidence), Chappell and Co. testimony; Gramophone Company testimony, papers 58, 75. The persistent copyright disputes between these forces and the BBC can be traced through fairly extensive records at the British Telecom Archive, Holborn, London.

46 RMA, POST 89/18, I, PP. 4-8; §504.

47 E j. Brown, in Sykes evidence, RMA, POST 89/18, I, unpaginated.

48 Hansard, Commons, 163, pp. 277-78 (April a4, 1923).

49 BBC WAC, CO 1/2, p. 12.

5o Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/19, I, §261.

51 BBC WAC, CO 1/2, September a7, 1922.

52 Crawford, Report, 20.

53 J. M. Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire (London: L. &V. Woolf, 1926).

54 L. Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, 2001); T. Streeter, Selling theAir: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 59-110.

55 BBC WAC, CO 1/r, Hansard, Commons, 162, pp. 2440-46 (April 19,1923).

56 Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, I, §§530-42.

57 BBC WAC, CO 58/i.

58 RMA, POST 89/18, I, PP. 4-8.

59 RMA, POST 33/963B, March 28, 1923, April 18, 1923.

6o R. M. Ford, The Tireless `License"Ramp: A Lesson in Bureaucracy" (London: St. Giles Press, 1929), 161.

61 Ford, Wireless "License"Ramp.

62 RMA, POST 33/963B; "New Wireless Move," Daily Express, April 11, 1923.

63 Ford, Wireless "License"Ramp, 126-28,135.

64 S. Landman and J. H. Beaumont, Sykes evidence, RMA POST 89/18, III, §2974.

65 M. Hilmes, Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 39.

66 Ford, Wireless "License"Ramp, 113.

67 RMA, POST 33/1559, July 15,1927.

68 Daily Express, March 22, 1923.

69 BBC WAC, CO 52/1, pp. 13-14, March 22,1923.

7o Hansard, Commons, 162, pp. 2440-46