Nathan Stubblefield

Nathan Beverly Stubblefield ( born November 22, 1860 in Murray, † March 28, 1928 ) was an American inventor and melon farmer. He received, among others, the 1908 U.S. patent for the first wireless phone and established thereby ensuring the probably the world's first mobile operator, called Wireless Telephone Company of America.

Biographical

Stubblefield, second son of Judge William " Capt. Billy " Jefferson Stubblefield and his wife Victoria Bowman Stubblefield grew up in Murray. His mother died in 1869, and by 1874 his father. He received the schooling initially by a private tutor and then to the death of his father on Male and Female Institute, a boarding school in Farmington. In addition, he taught himself by reading publications available on, including, for example, articles in the Scientific American and the Electrical World. In 1881 he married Ada Mae Buchannan, with whom he had nine children, some of whom died in childhood. In the period from 1907 to 1911 he taught at his melon farm in which he founded a private school, which he called "The Nathan Stubblefield Industrial School " or as " TELEPH -on- délgreen Industrial School " and which later became the campus of Murray State University emerged. Stubblefield, who brought forth a variety of inventions and some of them could also be patented, was later ousted from his investors reacted bitterly and experimented thenceforth withdrawn in his shed near Almo in Calloway County. In 1928, he died of starvation.

Patents

• Patent US329864: Lighting device. Published on November 3, 1885.
• Patent US378183: Mechanical telephone. Published on February 21, 1888.
• Patent US600457: Electric battery. Published on May 12, 1908.
• Patent US887357: Wireless telephone. Published on May 12, 1908.
• Patent CA114737: Wireless Telephone. Published on October 20, 1908 ( Not available on esp @ cenet CIPO - link. CA114737 ).