Szczepan Bialek wrote:

A loop antena have the antinodes. The points at which electrons could "fly
off".

Yet they do not.

See Fig. 2: http://www.antiquewireless.org/otb/lodge1102.htm

Why?

A lot more has been learned since 1887.

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Can you measure the static electricity?

Sure, with a static meter.

Yet another device that didn't exist in 1887.


You will transmit just fine if you have the ground/chassis/counterpoise.

It depends on the type of antenna.

If it is a dipole, yagi, log-periodic, sturba curtain, rhombic, parabolic,
helix, loop, cubical quad, on any of many, many more types of antennas
that have no place or need to connect a ground, it would not.