Re: Stanhope connections

Paul St George replies :

Tim has seen the Wikipedia entry by Likopoulos about my great grandfather.

As well as answering any questions (if I can), I would like help from any genealogists or historians who can tell me more about Alexander Stanhope SG and his work. I have some of his papers, some drawings and a few newspaper clippings, but little more.

I would like to find some books that refer to him. There is an almost insurmountable problem with this kind of research. The history of any technology is very partial. Take cinema, if you read French histories this was invented by the Lumiere brothers. If you are American, then Edison. If Bristolian, as I am, it was Friese-Greene. So with the Telectroscope, it takes a Greek researcher to stray outside the received wisdoms that attribute the invention of the Telectroscope to the French Constantin Senlecq, the American George R. Carey, the Portugese Adriano de Paiva or the Polish Jan Szczepanik. There are perhaps more inclusive histories that are in languages that I do not read. So, I thank Likopoulos for providing a brief translation from his Greek text.

What is so frustrating and yet drives me forward as I walk, as if through porridge, towards my goal is that the people who tried to copy my great grandfather have their place in the history books and have left only space for a marginal note for the man who truly invented the Telectroscope. A brief examination, by anyone with the slightest scientific knowledge, will reveal that not one of their inventions could ever have worked. They all, as Stephen has recorded, fell into the trap of basing their inventions on Selenium. Only Alexander Stanhope SG had a working method and I aim to prove this very soon. If only one could rewrite the history books.

[Paul St George]

Comments

[Andreas Likopoulos]

Hello Mr. St. George.

I have recently been observing this blog eagerly and with great excitement. I find your claims of the tunnel plans left to you very intriguing.

I especialy found the diagram left to you by your great grandfather most interesting and fascinating. -With your permission, I would very much like to place this on the wikipedia page.

Do you have any more?

It would be greatly appreciated if you could contact me about this. Maybe we could further discuss your great grandfather's work and your plans?

I would of course be very willing to send you a copy of my paper (it is in Greek however, as you know), and if you like I could maybe give you a more detailed translation (the wikipedia entry is of course very brief and general).

My personal email is [email protected]

Thank you in advance.