Re: TESLA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RADIO/WIRELESS? (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:41:10 -0700
From: Barton B. Anderson <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TESLA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RADIO/WIRELESS? (fwd)

Hi Ed,

A compilation were certainly help with this old worn-out thread. 
Everyone has an opinion (Marconi bad, Marconi good, Tesla did nothing, 
Tesla did everything, etc..). The only real evidence I think we have on 
the subject is the US Supreme Court Case 369. It's been 10 years since I 
read it, but if I remember, Tesla, Lodge, and others had a dispute with 
the technology used for Marconi's patent claims. I believe it didn't 
work out too well for Marconi.

Only the inventors of the time "really" know. We can analyze their 
circuits and come to our opinions, but they are the ones who truly know. 
There are many such disputes. TCBOR gap or RQ gap, who invented the 
first MMC for Tesla coils (Terry? Reinhard? others?). I find it silly on 
both ends of who did what and who used who's technology. A better 
question is "who doesn't use technology that works, regardless of who 
contributed more to it's invention"? We all do. Tesla and Marconi are no 
different than anyone else.

I do agree that it would be good to have a list compiled for at least 
future reference to the questions that seem to reinvent themselves every 
year.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

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>Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:44:47 -0700
>From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "tesla@xxxxxxxxxx" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: TESLA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RADIO/WIRELESS?
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>    I wonder if anyone here has compliled a list of Tesla's 
>contributions and the dates which go with them?  Would make interesting 
>comparison with work of Hertz, Lodge, Branly, Bose, etc.
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>Ed
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