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Re: Theory and Practice



Subject:  Re: Theory and Practice
  Date:   Sat, 17 May 1997 07:05:49 +0000
  From:   "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


At 05:34 AM 5/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Subject:  Re: Theory and Practice
>  Date:  Fri, 16 May 1997 00:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
>  From:  richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
>    To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>
>At 12:52 AM 5/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Subject:      Re: Theory and Practice
>>      Date:   Tue, 13 May 1997 19:24:05 -0800
>>      From:   Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>>        To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>References: 
>>           1
>>
>>
>>richard hull wrote:
>>
>>> Tesla never formally published a theory in his lifetime!!!!  
>>> He published virtually zero in the open literature.
>>
>>
>>I thought that his theory of standing electrical waves in
>>the earth was noteworthy, not to mention other examples,
>>such as the dynamics of the rotating magnetic field.
>>
>>
>>-GL
>>
>>I noted that tesla never published a theory in a formal manner or submitted
>a formal paper,  not that he had no theories bouncing around in his head
>at
>all.  His crowning achievement in a practical venue was the rotataing
>mag
>field. 
>
>R. Hull, TCBOR
>
>--------------------------------------------------------

  Richard -

  The concept of the rotating magnetic field is a coherent group of
general
propositions used as principles of explanations for a class of
phenomena.

  Note that this is a dictionary definition of theory.

  John Couture