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Re: Theory and Practice
Subject: Re: Theory and Practice
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 07:05:49 +0000
From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh@worldnet.att.net>
To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
At 05:34 AM 5/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: Theory and Practice
> Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: richard hull <rhull@richmond.infi.net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
>
>
>At 12:52 AM 5/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Subject: Re: Theory and Practice
>> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:24:05 -0800
>> From: Greg Leyh <lod@pacbell.net>
>> To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
>>References:
>> 1
>>
>>
>>richard hull wrote:
>>
>>> Tesla never formally published a theory in his lifetime!!!!
>>> He published virtually zero in the open literature.
>>
>>
>>I thought that his theory of standing electrical waves in
>>the earth was noteworthy, not to mention other examples,
>>such as the dynamics of the rotating magnetic field.
>>
>>
>>-GL
>>
>>I noted that tesla never published a theory in a formal manner or submitted
>a formal paper, not that he had no theories bouncing around in his head
>at
>all. His crowning achievement in a practical venue was the rotataing
>mag
>field.
>
>R. Hull, TCBOR
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
Richard -
The concept of the rotating magnetic field is a coherent group of
general
propositions used as principles of explanations for a class of
phenomena.
Note that this is a dictionary definition of theory.
John Couture