Re: Stop the nonsense

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Original poster: "Randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <randy-at-gte-dot-net>

Thank you, Antonio.

I'll concede a goodly amount of respect for H. Hertz.
Somebody, <I'm thinking it was Malcolm> posted a very good
explanation of Marconi's radio theory vs. Tesla's, as far as
tuned-circuits of transmitters goes a few years ago,...2 elements vs. 4 
elements.
But I'm not aware <pleading ignorance here> of him making
whoppingly big sparks, or knowing about AC or polyphase AC...
And I won't even *mention* Thomas E**son, who'd have us all
watching soot belch from smokestacks every 3000' or so, if
we'd been saddled with the genius of his Direct Current.

IIRC it was the US Supreme Court that "decided" in '43 or so that
Tesla, and not Marconi, had "invented" radio..... but nobody
can deny that Hertz got EM waves to travel through space
w/o wires, first....

Randy

At 11:22 AM 2/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
>
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><randy-at-gte-dot-net>
> >
> > I must confess to having not read Tesla's own writings, yet.
> > What "peer-reviewed" journal did he submit to? What peers did
> > he have? (any references to Marconi, or Hertz' works will be
> > summarily ignored..however "unscientific" that may be...)
>
>About Tesla coils, I have this here:
>N. Tesla, "High frequency oscillators for electro-therapeutic and
>other purposes," Reprint in the Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 7,
>July 1999, pp. 1282-1292.
>
>Look also here:
>http://tfcbooks-dot-com/mainpage/site_map.htm
>I see many listings of Tesla's patents around, but what about his
>papers?
>
>Hertz was a completely serious and respected researcher. Marconi
>was more commercially inclinated, but an exceptional experimenter,
>and equally respectable.
>
>Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz