CDE Caps (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:31:39 -0700
From: Anthony R. Mollner <penny831@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CDE Caps

Ok, let me change directions a little bit here. Does any one have a deal on
some more CDE caps? I'm going to need to get about 50 more.

Tony

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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:29 AM
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Subject: Tesla and radio (fwd)


Let's try to bring the discussion back to coiling now...


Chip

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:10:56 -0400
From: Jared Dwarshuis <jdwarshuis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Pupman <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Tesla and radio

In October 1866, roughly 20 years ahead of Tesla, Hertz, Marconi, Lodge,
Edison,  etc. etc. Mahlon Loomis demonstrated wireless telegraphy. Some
Virginia congressmen attempted to raise funds for his research, but it died
in committe. Loomis also died a few years later (broke!). Towards the end of
his life he became somewhat bitter about being called a crank.

Radio amateurs have confirmed that his system did work. QST magazine a
magazine for radio amateurs ran an article on loomis a few years back. Well
worth reading!

But loomis is only one radio pioneer, there are many (especially in the mid
to late 1890's) You cannot say that one person is responsible for radio as
we know it. Dozens of people held fundamental patents

In my estimate the true king of radio is Armstrong, he invented the greatly
superior system of FM broadcast. Armstrong was cheated by large
corporations, feeling hopless he took his own life. His widow collected a
large sum of money from patent infringement settlements, but only after some
20 years of court battles.