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In 1955 he took the U.S. Patent Office to court to recoup a $ 25.00 filing fee he had to pay make an appeal. A decision was made that day (possibly before he filed the appeal) which made the appeal, and the fee, unnecessary. When the Patent Office would not refund his money he took them to court
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After closing his company, Miessner kept himself busy with writing and other work. In 1962 he published an article on the bending of parts of a radio beam and another in 1963 on the frustrations in inventing. He was appointed to the ad hoc Patent System Reform panel of the
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In 1963, Miessner won the De Forest Audion gold medal for inventive achievement. In 1964 he won the
Distinguished Service Award from the
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to be a radio operator. It was while he was in
Washington that he invented the "cat whisker" detector which allowed for receiving
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Miessner and
Hammond had a falling out and Miessner left the company in 1912. He studied electrical engineering at
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and received around $ 750,000 for them. He used this money to begin his own company, Miessner
Inventions, Inc in
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about the book on radio dynamics he was writing and Tesla's own work in the field of radio controls.
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used his 1935 design for an amplified conventional piano as the basis for their highly successful
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and in 1936 he had fairly long article on electronic music and instruments published in the
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In the early 1930s he worked with his brother, Otto, to invent an instrument called a
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where he was in charge of the radio laboratory of the Navy
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in the first large scale production on an electronic organ known as the
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where he founded the company's acoustical lab. He moved back east to
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battle with another company on the violin's design, which he lost.
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had already developed a similar instrument with the same name.
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In the late 1920s, Miessner sold over fifty of his patents to
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by crystal sets. He was also promoted to Chief Operator.
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in 1909. He was assigned to a naval radio station in
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on radio for aircraft and transoceanic receivers in
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