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Article #4764Relativity again (was Re: History of AC vs DC Power)
From: Lee Sawyer
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:08
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:08
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In article <ZOWIE.92Nov11100057@daedalus.stanford.edu>, zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes...
[a good discussion of why we have AC power grids]
>Towards the end, he did get a bit whacked out, though -- `telautomatics'
>was an idea far ahead of its time, and he didn't have enough nonlinear
>circuit elements to make it work.
>[Then Lee DeForest invented the triode and it was all over...]
> ^^^^^^^^^^
////////// <<= Are you related ?
>Craig DeForest -- astrophysicist for hire. DoD#314159; PhD#271828
Just curious. And I don't want to start another "Where's Joan Baez's
father"-type firestorm (though it was neat to find out she has
physicists for relatives...)
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Lee Sawyer
Dept of Physics
Univ. of Texas
at Arlington
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