Electrical Book Recommendation

[Bryan Holland]

For all of you that are electrical history buffs, I would like to recommend a recently published book and two related websites.

The book is called, “Where Discovery Sparks Imagination – A Pictorial History of Radio and Electricity” by, John D. Jenkins.

The 200+ page book costs about $35. I purchased the book Tuesday afternoon and I haven’t been able to put it down since.

To go along with the book, check out these two websites related to the book:

http://amre.us/

http://www.sparkmuseum.com/

Awesome stuff…

 

[Uncle Bob]

Bryan,

Thanks, I have been reading about Nikola Tesla and alternating current. Somehow his work has been overlooked;

http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm

Just think, we probably have the knowledge to produce and use electricity without wires being strung across the county; but, the knowledge seems to be withheld.

Just a thought,

Uncle Bob

 

[ewenme]

Once a society buys into an infrastructure system, that society [controlled by the owners of the infrastructure] is loathe to change. My father, who identified the Van Allen Belt about year before Van Allen, used to say to me that people who couldn't understand something themselves always look askance at those who do understand. The prejudice against 'new' or different or innovative, is still there. Now, more than ever in our history, big money controls what we learn. Companies who buy up patents only to bury the new technology ought to be exposed.

 

[peach]

from your fingers to God's ears, ewenme.. probably not in our lifetime.