"Telamon" wrote in message
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"Frank Dresser" wrote:

"Billy Burpelson" wrote in message
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Frank Dresser wrote:

Did Tesla have any particular interest in radio?

Nah...he was just the inventor of radio, that's all. See below.

This Supreme Court ruling came out shortly after Tesla's death. The
case
was Tesla vs Marconi (and thus m II's reference above to Marconi)...

From Wikipedia:

In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him [Tesla]
as
being the inventor of the radio.



The Supreme Court can get it wrong. They also asserted that Lee de
Forest
invented the regenerative detector.

But what is radio? Is it just tuned circuits or is it the transmission
of
intelligence using radio waves? As far as I know, Nikola Tesla didn't
have
much more interest in the communication potential for radio than Tom
Edison
had in the "Edison Effect".

He did have an interest in communications but was more interested in
power transmission.

And that's the question. How much interest did Tesla have in radio
communication? I'm no Tesla expert, but as far as I can tell, the answer is
"not much". At least not much interest when compared to other radio
pioneers who were not only thinking up (or 'borrowing") interesting
technology but also thinking up useful applications for that interesting
technology. .


And, lets not forget that Heinrich Hertz's experimental apparatus could
have
also been used to transmit information with radio waves.

Well, Tesla actually transmitted control signals to a boat. The first
remote controlled boat.

Sure, and if Tesla had devised a system to telegraph messages between boats
and ships and shore stations then we never would have heard of Marconi. Had
Tesla taken an interest, he might have invented that early 1900s chain of
stations to track severe weather. As it was, Tesla's boat fixed a problem
nobody had.


But, I'm sure we can all agree it was a good thing for radio that the
broadcast power scheme failed.

No I don't agree.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Broadcast power would have been RFI hell.

Frank Dresser