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Tesla's opinion of radio waves
Circlotron:
From an interview with Nikola Tesla.
Science and Invention, April 1930 page 1125.
hans:
Well, radio didn't have the best of 'sale pitches' by inventor Heinrich Hertz neither. He was asked about potential applications of transmitting and receiving these electromagnetic waves described by Maxwell, which Hertz experimentally proofed existed, and responded :
--- Quote ---“I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.”
--- End quote ---
In hindsight people were so wrong, but this is also how research works. In 10 years time we can say which and how wrong many of our current state-of-the-art papers were.
Buriedcode:
Yeah, good thing that the Michelson–Morley experiment put that to bed. Also - surely soundwaves travel in a solid better than a gas? I know tesla was pretty eccentric and far too many people are fanboys, but even back then this was obviously wrong. Then again, he never actually said waht he thought the "Aether" was.
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: Buriedcode on August 17, 2022, 05:08:32 am ---I know tesla was pretty eccentric and far too many people are fanboys, but even back then this was obviously wrong.
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That is due to all the free energy idiots. They all think that Tesla invented some free energy device and patented it, but that it is kept away from us by the big companies.
You can explain as much as you like that this is not the case and show why it is not possible, but the big conspiracy rules :palm:
Vtile:
When read that "article" a few times, especially the explanation of terms. One could think that Teslas point of view is not totally wrong considering what eg. water wapor etc. can and will do for common radiowaves.
For my eyes it kind of sounds that Tesla is pointing out in a isoteric way that the radio "ether" is not ideal in a way the Hertz follower are thinking (as he already pointed out in 18xx) ..so they are totally wrong and should take a moment to think in a another way.
Edit.
...but for this kind of article one would need to know the definition(s) of "ether" back then, when trying to figure out what is tried to explain that is not fully understood.
My first thought of solid ether was what is now called "vacuum".
.... but who knows.
Ps. Teslas induction motor was not perfect neither, iirc. It was Siemens&Halske whos engineers actually refined a working induction motors we now are familiar with. Can not remember what was Steinmetz influence on it outside formal mathematical formulations (..and T-model).
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