Post by thread:[EE] Weston

If you're aware of Faraday and Edison and Tesla, and maybe even Marconi, Baird, Esaki and Yuda, but the name Weston doesn't have much details attached, this fascinating letter written by an aging Weston employee in 1990 may excite enough interest to prompt you to find out more about the man http://weston.ftldesign.com/MulhernLetter/letter.htm RM If some of those other names leave a blank as well, google can help.

Ok - have you a reference for Yada - seems to get all sorts of other hits. _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ {Original Message removed}

Opps meant Yuda _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ Ok - have you a reference for Yada - seems to get all sorts of other hits. _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 27/04/2005

> Ok - have you a reference for Yada - seems to get all sorts of other > hits. Hmmm - really should have been "Uda" although Yuda seems to get used as well. I purposefully omitted mention of his more known associate Mr Yagi :-) Yagi Uda will give many hits. Between them they developed the classic Yagi antenna that you see as TV aerials and much more everywhere. Both were Japanese university professors. Uda did most of the development work but Yagi wrote it all up in English and popularised it.Which is my you don't see Uda antennae on rooftops worldwide today. RM

Russell, On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:35:51 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote: > If you're aware of Faraday and Edison and Tesla, and maybe even > Marconi, Baird, Esaki and Yuda, but the name Weston doesn't have much > details attached, this fascinating letter written by an aging Weston > employee in 1990 may excite enough interest to prompt you to find out > more about the man Well stone me! We had Weston Standard Cells in the physics lab at school, I've had a Weston Master exposure meter for decades, and the electricity meter in my house is from Sangamo Weston - I never realised they were all the same Weston! Thanks Russell - a highly educational item... Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England

> If you're aware of Faraday and Edison and Tesla, and maybe even > Marconi, Baird, Esaki and Yuda, but the name Weston doesn't have much > details attached, this fascinating letter written by an aging Weston > employee in 1990 may excite enough interest to prompt you to find out more > about the man > > http://weston.ftldesign.com/MulhernLetter/letter.htm > > > RM "During Dr.Weston's long and fruitful life, he also invented [...] Radio tube(bulb); [...]" I thought Lee De Forest invented the triode, no? Also, I believe there is a difference between inventing something new and improving on existing design, as in the case of Weston improving Edison's incandescent bulb. Vitaliy

> I thought Lee De Forest invented the triode, no? I never knew Lee personally [:-)] but it is my understanding (quite possibly wrong) that he never really knew what he was doing at the time that he invented the triode, and that he was trying to "improve" existing thermionic diodes, whether for patent reasons or to differentiate his product, and that what he ended up with was as much a surprise to him as to anyone else. Of such happenstance are almost all great discoveries made. There are vanishingly few discoveries that the inventor for looking for what (s)he ends up with. At best if this does happen it is usually because the discovery candidate has left clues. eg Marie Curie and Radium. For interest: not surprisingly AFAIK Marie died of cancer. RM