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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:36:48 -0400
From: Dan Kline <ntesla-at-ntesla.csd.sc.edu>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Tesla's Radio Circuit
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>>Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 05:13:18 +0000
>>From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
>>To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>Subject: Re: Tesla's Radio Circuit (was tuning more accurately than 5%)
>>
>>
>>
>> I disagree about Tesla having "honed what was first just a glorified
>>induction coil system".
>
>[snip]
>
>At the risk of being flamed to death as a heretic (geez, I *hate* to do
this...
>*sigh*) My personal research has revealed that it's quite probable that
Tesla >got the idea of the air-core coil after seeing a demonstration of
exactly that >very thing by, I think it was, Elihu Thompson, in the late
1800's.
^^^^
Whoops! I meant early 1800's
Dan