Blake Bowers said to Scott Mcquilkin
About: 2-Way Radio Co-invent
Dated: 12-31-97  00:33hrs * D.A.R.E. for Life!
 BB> On (26 Dec 97) Scott McQuilkin wrote to All...
 SM> Re: 2-Way Radio Co-inventor Dead.
 BB> Yes, he is.  For quite a while now.
 SM>  On Thursday September 17th 1997, co-inventor of the two-way radio
 SM>  Charles Clio Shumard (My Grandfather), past away at the age of 98 in
 SM>  Princeton, New Jersey.
 BB> And again, my condolences.
 Thanks Blake.
 SM>   Charles C. Shumard, Co-invented Walkie-talkie
 BB> Only if he worked for Motorola.  5 pound AM walkie talkie, produced,
 BB> engineered, and developed at the request of the US army, before
 BB> WWII
 Can you verify that?  Can you eMAIL or sNAIL me.
 SM>  After working in RCA's tube division in Harrison, he was transferred
 SM> to  RCA in Camden, where he co-invented the walkie-talkie, a 2-way
 SM> radio.
 BB> Again, only if he was moonlighting..
 Offer some kind of proof.
 BB> I would also reference the RCA History, available on the WWW, at
 BB> www.nipper.com  which makes no reference of being the "first" in
 BB> Two way.  Surely, anybody who could claim it, would!
 BB> Looking also at a copy of Scientific American, in 1916, which shows
 BB> a picture of a mobile two way installation for a police department.
 BB> quite an interesting antenna array!  A very interesting article.  I
 BB> found the magazine for sale on the internet, and it now is displayed
 BB> at our shop.  Of course, this was a demo system, two way did not
 BB> come into widespread use for many years later.
 Ok.
 BB> Your grandfather would have had to have been 17 years old, when
 BB> the system was operational!
 And the radios you speak, of would have been the size of my car.
 BB> So again, Scott, maybe your grandfather invented RCA's first
 BB> introduction into the Two Way field, but no where near the first of
 BB> them all.
 He "Co"ed it.
 BB>  ! Origin: KD4RME, The POINT of it all.... (1:284/99.10)
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