Continuing on with the inventions claimed for the jewish electrical engineer Alfred Gross – we’ve already covered and debunked the pager (1) and the walkie-talkie (2) that are falsely attributed to him – we have the cordless telephone which is somewhat different to the mobile/cell phone that we’ve addressed before as a jewish invention myth (3) but the cordless telephone covers some of the same ground.
As always let’s begin the claim.
‘MNews’ asserts that:
‘Alfred Gross – Pager, walkie-talkie
Radio engineer Alfred Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He was one of the inventors behind the walkie-talkie, pager, and the cordless telephone.’ (4)
The problem is that once again this simply isn’t true because Gross’ ‘contributions’ are in the 1960s when the first cordless telephone was already developed and in commercial use by 17th June 1946 when Bell Labs in St. Louis, Missouri and called the ‘Mobile Telephone Service’ (5) and on 2nd October 1946 this was expanded to include Chicago using Motorola communications equipment on Bell Labs’ telephone network. (6)
As to a handheld cordless telephone rather than one run out of a car; this was invented by an American radio engineer named George Sweigert who submitted a patent application (along with a working prototype) to the US Patent Office on 2nd May 1966 and his patent application was granted on 10th June 1969. (7)
So, no Alfred Gross didn’t invent the cordless telephone: George Sweigert did!
References
(1) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-pager
(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-walkie
(3) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-mobilecell
(4) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions
(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Telephone_Service
(6) https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/about/history/timeline.html; https://www.wb6nvh.com/MTSfiles/Carphone1.htm
(7) https://patents.google.com/patent/US3449750