Arthur C Clarke and his 2.4m Gregorian dish

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For completeness, it should be pointed out that - although Clarke did mention the geostationary orbit - he was "significantly wrong" about the possible technologies that would make comsats feasible.

The first person to write about satellites for telecommunications was George Smith. Clarke admits this "influenced" his famous 1945 Wireless World paper.

(see http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=826

also: www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/050718_station_air.html ).

(I've previously pointed this out in newsgroup: uk tech digital tv - and got lots of abuse, which we don't want here! - but at least it should be mentioned).
 

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Well, you can't get everything right, but it is the vision that he had..

By the way, you recommend any of George O. Smith books?
 

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OK, the rest of the thread dealing with George O Smith and books is moved to the SF Forum, as this thread was really dealing with ACC.

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