A while back I wrote: > Actually, it's the other likely spelling - after Arthur C. Clarke who > first proposed the idea of using geostationary satellites for > communications relays in the February 1945 issue of Wireless World > magazine. No, I haven't read this letter though it would be quite fun > to find it in a library somewhere - but refer you to his book "How the Robert G Fenske Jr replied: > It was the Oct 1945 issue. You can find it at > http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelays.html Thanks for the interesting reference. Actually, I think we're both right. Quoting ACC's book "How The World Was One", pg 154: > If I had not proposed the idea of geostationary relays in my Wireless > World letter of February 1945, and developed it in more detail the > following October, ... Definition and even spelling of "Clarke belt" is pretty much on topic but history like this is, I think, drifting off so any follow up to me and/or Robert Fenske direct, I'd suggest. Ed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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