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The Henry sutton story<\/h3>\n

In the year 2003, I stumbled upon an interesting historical factoid while researching the history of the city I had must moved to.<\/p>\n

Someone called Henry Sutton had attempted to broadcast the Melbourne Cup, Australia’s most famous horse race, to Ballarat.<\/p>\n

What made it interesting was that the year he did it was 30 years before the accepted inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was born.<\/p>\n

There were other references as well – had he installed the world’s first telephone network? Did he figure out a better design for the carbon filament light bulb than Edison?<\/p>\n

Thus begun a journey that would take me another 15 years.<\/p>\n

Along the way I met with Lorayne Branch, Henry Sutton’s great grand-daughter, who too was on a mission to find out about his legacy and the full extent of his genius. Her evidence posed a new question about Sutton’s genius that I set out to prove or disprove: had he worked with Nikola Tesla and sent an MMS in London, in the year 1891?<\/span><\/p>\n

The podcast begins some 13 years into the journey, when I am deep inside the research library of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and I find the exact moment where Henry Sutton began to be written out of history.<\/p>\n

It’s not just a story of an inventor forgotten due to his disregard for patenting his ideas – it’s a history of the development of modern technology, from the telephone to the fax, the automobile to the microchip, and the television to the smartphone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Episode 01<\/h3>\n

A 15 year journey to find the real story of the man who proposed a television broadcast in 1885; the same man who devised and installed the world’s first telephone network, and who – maybe – transmitted an MMS image with his friend Nikola Tesla in 1892.<\/span><\/p>\n

The story starts in 2014, in the research library of the Smithsonian with the revelation that Henry Sutton’s research into galena detectors paved the way for the development of the solid state transistor and the microchip.<\/p>\n

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