At 10:50 pm 01-05-05 -0700, you wrote: >--- Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wasn't it Tesla who first hit upon the three phase >> notion?
> A popular misconception indeed... I have combed > through early Tesla writings contained in the somewhat > unimpresssive > "Inventions, Researches, and Writings of > Nikola Tesla" > by Thomas Commerford Martin > and found absolutely NOT one reference to three phase. > In fact EVERY reference concerning poly phasing > schemes is couched in reference to quadrature or poly > phase, but never once is three phase even mentioned... > > My only thought in the matter is that Tesla, being > highly superstitious always avoided any reference to > three.... Perhaps, like Newton, he was a closet Unitarian, eh! ;-) >It was bad luck for him. He in fact wrote > about his own mental illness and mental breakdown in > his own short autobiography. perhaps some references > to three exist there, I havent read it for years, good > idea to look at that again. > Many folks have added things to what Tesla has said, > to the point that they said/ he said ect... that > become myths. I for one would be glad to hear about > any context with Tesla and three phase. Undoubtably he > was most familiar with the scheme, since thats how > polyphasing developed, but why are there no direct > references to that???? > Even more mysterious was his infatuation with the no 3 > and its derivatives. ( again from biographers) Again > those are the reports from those aquaintances, those > biographers, but not one word from the man himself. > Tesla had nothing to do with three phase. I would be > glad to see anything to indicate that to be otherwise > or true, because I havent seen one iota of such > references or evidence. > Sincerely HDN > Tesla Research Group; Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/ Fascinating stuff. 8^) Thanks Harvey. Frank
