Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: As far as I know only Rossi wanted publicity, and not much of that. He did >> not get much, because he did not reveal much. That does not seem to bother >> him. >> >> I think most of the invitations to the Oct. 28 event were presents to his >> friends. >> >> You mean like the invitation to Peter Svensson, the AP reporter who > wrote no report about it?* > *
I do not know if Svensson is a friend of Rossi's, but yes, that is what I meant when I said Rossi did not get publicity "because he did not reveal much." There was no much for Svensson to report, as I have pointed out several times. Lewan published only a short report. At LENR-CANR.org I added a few sentences and a link to Lewan. On one sense this was an historic event, but from the point of view of an organization like the AP it was not newsworthy. Without knowing the name of customer and the particulars there is no story here. If an AP reporter had been present at the first test of a transistor at Bell Labs on Dec. 24, 1947, I doubt the reporter would have anything newsworthy to say. It did not look like much and it did not prove much, from a mass media point of view. No one could have predicted it would become a practical technology on that day. Many other breakthroughs were needed, such as zone refining, and it was not a foregone conclusion they would be made. Here is Brattain's lab notebook from that day: http://www.porticus.org/bell/pdf/brattain_lab_notebook.pdf It is unassuming, and matter-of-fact. It resembles Fioravanti's HVAC test sheet from Oct. 28. Notice that they did not confirm it was an amplifier until Dec. 24, by observing oscillations. - Jed
