Talk:George Sweigert

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Several newspaper sources exist for this inventor - The Cleveland Plain Dealer being the primary source.

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This article about the inventor of the radiotelephone contains a link to Google Patents in the first sentence, with links to the diagrams and text of the patent submission and subsequent award of patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1969. If the read continues to search Google Patents, a large number of subsequent inventors cite this patent as prior work, then proceed to differentiate their work from this prior, established patent. The essential journalistic background elements about the date and place of birth, where the inventor attend college and years of military service are well documented in the second paragraph. In the third paragraph, the article credits another inventor with the invention of the cell phone, limiting the scope of the invention of the radio telephone. Interestingly, this is the article's only citation flag, so I have removed the reference to correct that area. Claims by that inventor are best handled in that article. The discussion about role models the inventor had are interesting reading, and they allow the reader to jump to other wikipedia articles to establish the context the inventor worked in. These links help the reader understand the fundamental principles that his innovation rested on. While bordering on a folksy tone, these paragraphs are instructive. The following paragraphs are mostly recollections of friends and relatives lending interesting background but little additional journalistic content. Again, the numerous references to role models helps the reader establish the state of mind of the inventor, but the linkages to television and wireless networking are strained. Linkages to AM radio, FM radio, and wireless telegraphy seem appropriate in this context, but all other references outside radio do not. The "shirt pocket phone" vision statement serves the purpose of establishing the inventor's intent, but the fact he saw this vision realized shortly before his death seems maudlin. Overall, the article seems to have withstood the test of years of scrubbing and review. I give it a B rating.

Last edited at 15:24, 26 May 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 16:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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