Re: early rotary gap

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Original poster: "teri mckenney" <mck-at-ezy-dot-net> 

Hey Ed,

You're comment that " Tesla  was brilliant and innovative but never brought
any of his stuff to commercial fruition" will surely attract some
opposition.My first thought was induction motors and Niagra falls Lets  not
forget this started because Mike was making a joke!Or trying to anyway 0:)
Didn't someone else write that Tesla said he had "nothing against Marconi
,after all, he's using 13 ? of my patents"
Bill Mck.


 > Add Heaviside's expressions for "Maxwell's Equations"; neater by far
 > than the original.  As for Marconi, remember that he got interested in
 > "Hertzian waves", tried to educate himself and then went to Professor
 > Righi, and went on to experimental work which quite rapidly led to
 > practical communications.  He then went ahead to provide commercial
 > services while continuing experiments, all at a very early age.  He was
 > both an inventor (and copier, we all are) and very effective
 > entrepeneur.  (The fact his had family scotch distillery money to
 > support his work didn't hurt a bit.] In contrast Tesla was brilliant and
 > innovative but never brought any of his stuff to commercial fruition,
 > which was Marconi's real contribution - he provided much needed
 > communication services.
 >

 > Ed
 >
 >