Major General George Owen Squier Statue Fund
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"Squier is a rather short man, well set up, quick and decisive in all his actions and speech, not by any means looking his fifty-one years. He is punctilious to a degree and has a strict sense of duty, doing it as he sees it without fear of favor from any one. He impresses you with his enthusiasms, some of which are the United States, the Army, his inventions, and especially benefiting humanity. His eagerness and convictions on these subjects make his conversation extremely interesting."
Frank C. Page
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May 11Mark Harvey of the Michigan History Center joined Stateside to discuss Squier’s career. He said that Squier initially developed elevator music, also known as Muzak, as a novel way of transmitting music directly into homes through electrical wires.Read More
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December 13Created by Brigadier General George Owen Squier, Muzak® combined the technology of the wireless radio and cable communications. In 1910, General Squier received multiple patents on “multiplexing,” a communications system that allows multiple conversations on a single pair of telephone wires. His technical innovation in signal communications evolved into today’s fiber optics and cable television’s hundreds of channels.Read More
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October 13With his invention of the floraphone, Major General George Owen Squier, a prolific inventor and engineer, hoped to change radio beyond recognition.Read More
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September 23Real-time transmission of media dates back to the 1920s and George Owen Squier. Among other inventions, Squier patented an approach for sending music long distances without using radio, which was expensive and unreliable at the time. - See more at: http://www.videoedge.net/news/distribution/state-video-streaming-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-are-we-headed/363737#sthash.reo7jNwu.dpufRead More
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July 16The son of a prominent Dryden farm family, Squier had a colorful career that spanned the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and World War I. He drew up the first military specifications for an airplane and was to radio what Steve Jobs was to personal computing.Read More
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May 17In a growing country that wanted nothing more than to be connected, the great green hope of instant contact lay with Major General George O. Squier's unassuming, super-economical floraphone.Read More
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April 16“But Squier was very forward thinking when it came to the airplane’s potential. He saw them doing things that the planes of the day still couldn’t do.”Read More
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June 14General George Squier was a military man, a great thinker, an inventor, and a pioneer in both radio and electricity. It’s said that Squier created the county’s first and only privately owned park, which he deemed “A country club for country people” in his hometown of Dryden.Read More
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January 25Squier had a colorful career serving in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and World War I. He drew up the first military specifications for an airplane and in 1916 organized the Army’s aviation section, which became the U.S. Army Air Corps and then the U.S. Air Force.Read More
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March 22The American military's work in creating the Internet can be dated to 1910, when Army officer George Owen Squier (pronounced like "square") invented a way to let a telephone line carry multiple signals at one time. His discovery, multiplexing, paved the way for the development of telephone and data networks; as did his later invention of sending music over electric wires.Read More
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September 27The guy that invented the technology making piped music possible was George Owen Squier, a Major General in the United States Army signal corps. His invention of multiplexing – sending several analogue signals over a single line – in 1910 paved the way for the company he would start in 1922, Wired Radio, which would eventually be renamed Muzak.Read More
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April 6The saga behind the emergence of Muzak began with a former U.S. Army major general, George Owen Squier (1865-1934), a Washington D.C.-based inventor who garnered admiration in scientific circles. Among his innovations was a device that kick-started the development of high-speed telegraphy in the pre-telephone years. Then, while heading the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I, Squier invented a means of transmitting music from phonograph records long-distance via electrical power lines.Read More
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July 7Of course, Major General George Owen Squier, who invented the Muzak concept through his Cleveland-based Wired Radio Inc. back in 1934, had an inkling there was a market to be exploited. Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry recently teamed up with The Recording Academy for a partnership that will entail the GRAMMY Museum analyzing and preserving an archive of more than 20,000 unearthed original Muzak recordings, revealing the company's — and the industry's — impressive, historic legacy.Read More
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October 21Squier argued the need for publicly accessible airports, and that both state and federal governments should support this endeavor. According to him, America “needed a chain of them around the whole United States, so that we can fly from the one to the other and circuit this country.”Read More
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March 10Although generally unknown to the public today, Squier was world famous during his lifetime. As an Army officer, he was a key figure in the development of the airplane and radio for our national defense. As a scientist, his inventions laid the groundwork for the development of our modern telecommunications systems. As a businessman, he formed a famous radio broadcasting company.Read More
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November 18Squier patented his work in 1911 and donated his patents to the American people, allowing anyone to use the technique--although he expected it to have only noncommercial uses, and was upset to see that companies made money by using the technique to allow multiple voice calls over a single wire.Read More
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August 28Muzak was founded in the early 1920's by Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier, a retired Army Signal Corps officer. Something of a protogeek, General Squier experimented with ways to deliver music directly into homes using electrical lines. His company, originally known as Wired Radio, began transmitting over telephone lines, later expanding its broadcasts into hotels and restaurants.Read More
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August 22Key ideas shaped Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier's military career. He was convinced that science and what we now call high technology were absolutely essential to military power.Read More
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July 1It was in 1904 that General Squier first discovered the efficiency of using a direct metallic contact to trees, principally eucalyptus, while later oak, pine and poplar were used to increase the audibility of radio signals. Thereupon he conducted some experiments with a view to utilizing growing trees as antennae for radiotelegraphy.Read More
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