Re: Tesla Related Article

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Original poster: "BRIAN FOLEY" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, it is nice to hear such dialog. all the reading i do here gives us
insight into the "way it was then"....cul brian f.
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> Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Howdy Mark and all,
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> If you see this, then I am adding my own hearsay about Edison.
> Going to elementary school in the '50s amd '60s we learned that Edison was
a
> near deity.  My father told me otherwise.  He said he had 10s or 100s of
low
> paid researchers using the brute force empirical approach with little or
no
> theoretical basis for each new experiment.  He said the researchers did
all
> the work and Edison TOOK all the credit.  Of course I didn't believe him.
> In the decades since little clues and my life experience has amassed to
the
> point where now I think it more likely that Edison was just nothing more
> than another robber baron of his time, standing on the backs of the people
> that he could.
> What does this have to do with coiling?   Well skepticism is healthy
> and necessary for good science.  Maybe that's what.
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> Al Erpel  (USA, PA 18901)
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>  > I was quite shocked when I heard all this as Edison was
>  > always an icon to me.  But I got to thinking about the
>  > propaganda that Edison wrote when trying to support DC power
>  > distribution and kill AC power distribution and it is
>  > apparent that Edison may not have been the scientist that we
>  > give him credit.
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>  > Mark
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