In actuality, radio was first demonstrated by an American dentist; Mahlon Loomis in about 1864. Tesla was about 8 years old. Mahlon communicated between two mountaintops using kites to loft the antenna. This was before either Tesla or Marconi came up with the stuff. By the way, it appears that Marconi ripped off Tesla.
Source: Paramagnetism, Philip S. Callahan, Ph.D. Acres U.S.A. 1995, Page 52. Quoting a book by Otis B. Young, "Mahlon Loomis, the Discoverer and Inventor of Radio. It used no batteries, and depended on Schumann waves for power. I offer this way-off-topic tidbit only to demonstrate that a great deal of what we have been fed as fact is in fact completely wrong. Much more of our fundamental medical, political, and historical beliefs are equally rubbish. James-Osbourne: Holmes -----Original Message----- From: JudytheK [mailto:apea...@midcoast.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:59 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CS>Damian's Dubious Devices Wasn't that Yankee Doodle, the patriot who fought the Lobsterbacks when they came over on the Acheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe? Judy Down Maine Ugh, uh...that was that Italian guy Macaroni, before he invented111 pasta. Jim Wright Art Bell did not invent the telephone to talk to spirits. He invented radio. James-Osbourne: Holmes Well, before you get beat to death for a simple mistake why not just correct it and say A. Bell instead. Good Lord what have I gotten myself in to now?......... > >Bill Missett wrote: > > > FYI, > > When Edison invented the telephone, he was actually attempting to => > construct a device to talk to the "dead." Honest injun!! >>Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, not the telephone. >>Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. >>Hopefully your science is better than your history. > > > >frank key > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
