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Motorola 2 Way Radios

The Atlanta Constitution in the early 1900s reported on Nathan Stubblefield’s creation of the wireless device, which would someday fall in to the same category as Motorola 2 way radios.

Interesting Comments about Predecessors to Motorola 2 Way Radios

“Through wood, brick, mortar, and solid stone; through blocks of business houses, over long distance, through city streets, uninterrupted by the noise of traffic, Nathan Stubblefield, an inventor of Murray, Kentucky, has transmitted the sound of human voice without wires." The history being made on that day would eventually lead to the same Motorola 2 way radios we are familiar with today.

Additional Facts about Predecessors to Motorola 2 Way Radios

“From a station in the law office of a friend over a transmitter of his own invention, he gave his friends a New Year's greeting by wireless telephony, and at seven stations, located in different business houses and offices in the town, the message was simultaneously delivered." What was happening then would someday be commonplace with devices such as Motorola 2 way radios.

More Information about Predecessors to Motorola 2 Way Radios

The newspaper actually interviewed Stubblefield, who expressed excitement over solving “the problem of wireless telephony." He further suggested that he wanted the “apparatus . . . to be perfect when given to the public. (A)nd it is my desire that it shall not appear with defects for the scientific journals to pick to pieces." Stubblefield promised that his device, the oldest predecessor to today’s Motorola 2 way radios, would make it “possible to communicate with hundreds of homes at the same time. A single message can be sent from a central station to all parts of the United States. I am confident that it will operate over long distances."