Chapter Nine Shoe Swapper

Looking at problems from different perspectives.

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Inexpert Witnesses

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On 20 June 1913 William Marconi, inventor of the radio, sat in court rapt by the testimony of an expert witness in a lawsuit that his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America had brought against the National Electric Signaling Company of Pittsburgh. Marconi sat next to his wife and, according to a New York Times story that day, ‘Both listened attentively to every word spoken by Frank L. Waterman, an expert in patents and regarded as an authority on ...

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