This 2000 PhD thesis: http://www.microplumbers.com/pubs/BardellRL-PhDDissertation.pdf http://www.microplumbers.com/pubs/BardellRL-PhDDissertation.... gets into

This 2000 PhD thesis: http://www.microplumbers.com/pubs/BardellRL-PhDDissertation.pdf http://www.microplumbers.com/pubs/BardellRL-PhDDissertation.... gets into the details (including the math). It also thoroughly defines 'diodicity' (not in wiki or some online dictionaries). I'm wondering if Tesla thought of this while thinking about the operation of diode tubes, and perhaps the idea of electricity as a fluid. Diode: Fleming valve, 1904. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_valve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_valve