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"Why three prongs" is a classic, but it seems to have been submitted 11 months ago. I would suggest "[Nikola] Tesla's Big Mistake?"[1]. It's never been submitt
by jml7c5 6y ago
"Why three prongs" is a classic, but it seems to have been submitted 11 months ago.
I would suggest "[Nikola] Tesla's Big Mistake?"[1]. It's never been submitted, and I think single-wire power transmission would be surprising to many. Plus, it's some neat history.
[1]: http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html
- dang 6y agoI went with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444361 but if either of you (i.e. you or greenyoda) want to email us in a couple months (enough time to let the hivemind caches clear) we can send you an invite for the articles you suggested. Thanks!
- wbeaty 6y agoTesla is vindicated: it turns out that this whole article was debunked in 1936, but the debunking was based on an error. Single-wire transmissions are not against EM theory after all! Zenneck surface waves had long been disproved, but since 2005 the disproof is now debunked again. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20161019214341/www.texzontechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/TEXZON_Baylor_Corum16.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20161019214341/www.texzontechnolo... As a result, Corum's company "Viziv Technologies" has built a thirty-story plastic Tesla-tower out in Texas wilderness, and is now performing Earth-resonance experiments down at 12KHz broadcast frequencies. See tower construction slideshow: http://amasci.com/graphics/st/ http://amasci.com/graphics/st/