Re: kVA Effects on Broadway! (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:36:35 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kVA Effects on Broadway! (fwd)

Really? Ask anybody off the street who invented radio.... You'll get Marconi
as the answer.
We still have a long way to go to restore Tesla's name.

Jeff"

	An almost forbidden subject here by now but Tesla didn't invent
radio and his work had no real impact on its development.  IF he had
published some of his work earlier and IF he had ever made any public
demonstrations of his experiments he would deserve a place as one of the
many guys who invented equipment which was useful in wireless
transmission.  In spite of his claims that "Marconi used XX [you insert
the numbers, they vary by almost an order of magnitude from quote to
quote] of my inventions" I think the statement, if he made it, was envious
and bitter sour grapes on his part.  IF Marconi had based his early
equipment on anything Tesla did, rather than emulating Hertz and others,
there might be some truth to the inferred claim that Marconi COPIED
Tesla's work.  If you will examine what Marconi did, the actual design of
his equipment [plenty of schematics and photographs available], and his
progress with developing it you'll find that he would have benefitted a
lot by copying.  He didn't and certainly patents weren't an issue.  His
"four tuned circuits" patents were related to improving selectivity, not
ability to transmit intelligence over long distances.  Marconi worked
"down in frequency" from Hertz and not "up in frequency" from Tesla.

	Marconi was no genius but he was a very bright young man, a
brilliant experimentalist and later entrepeneur who was fortunate in
having family money to finance what he did.  Tesla was a true genius who
fiddled away most of his work and was unable to capitalize on it.

	Question:  How could a man who didn't believe in "Hertzian waves",
the fundamental and essential mode for ALL wireless and radio transmission
and who further stated that he worked hard to suppress them, lay claim to
have invented wireless/radio?

	Marconi's [and many other engineer's] stuff worked and Tesla's
didn't and couldn't.  With the exception of the short-range near-field
experiments Leland Anderson reports what transmission Tesla might have
been able to accomplish had to have depended on the very radiation he
despised.

Ed