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AgileWriter - Biography and History

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Welcome to Agile Writer Biography and History   AgileWriter is a collection of biography and history articles written by Ken Padgett.   History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)   Thomas Adams The Man Who Put the Chicle in Chiclets was also the first to introduce vending machines in America. Edwin H Armstrong Edwin H. Armstrong's story is a cautionary tale about what can happen to an individual when large corporations use their enormous power to steal ideas from small inventors. The Assassins History's first terrorists were fed a steady diet of hashish and willing maidens till they were called upon to perform a suicide mission.     The Rise and Fall of Bank of America Bank of America's satisfaction r
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Edwin H. Armstrong - FM Radio Pioneer

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Edwin H. Armstrong FM Radio Pioneer Edwin Armstrong discovered feedback and invented the basic electronic circuits that made radio, radar and television possible, but his life was consumed by the battle to protect his patents and few people today know anything at all about him or his contributions.   The story of radio begins with the electric light bulb. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879. A light bulb contains a filament that emits light and heat when a current is passed through it.   While experimenting with his new invention, Edison understood that electrons were being boiled off of the filament. In 1883, he devised another element he called the plate to put in his light bulb that would collect the electrons that were emitted. He could induce an electrical current to flow from the filament (that he now called the emitter) through empty space to the plate.  Edison had invented the first vacuum tube, but he didn't have any idea what to use it for. In 1904, Jo
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