The parallel, the sad prediction with LENR is fascinating. The fact that demo are ignored because published in less accessible place (less accessible in the modern way, I mean not in Nature... ), and the bad will in getting informed....
the fact that most energy by the pioneer will be wasted in patent war, is a warning to people in the field... the fact that blossoming unplanified efforts overcame the US pioneering show the importance of innovation ecosystem, motivation, sharing, compared to pure intellectual property... Nothing is new, we are warned since few years that unless we change the logic around LENR innovation, it will be the same. (does it remind you someone?) at time of Wright brothers, US tried to catch the bandwagon by creating "NACA", but probably state agency are no more adapted to modern innovation. we see with DoE. 2015-05-17 23:43 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > >> It isn't bad. It covers the "lost years" from 1906 to early 1908 in more > detail than most biographies. During those years, the Wrights did not fly. > They spent most of their time negotiating business deals and improving the > motor. It is frustrating to think of it. In this book, it is frustrating to > read how Wilbur had to spend nearly as much time convincing investors and > customers that the airplane was a real, viable product, as he spent > inventing the thing. > > I still say they could have cut short the time by doing better > demonstration flights, and by using the photos and affidavits they > collected from the flights. > > They were not experts in motors. They should have had experts working on > that, which they concentrated on the airplane itself. They could not hire > experts because they did not have the capital they needed. All that changed > in August 1908 with the public flights in France and Washington DC. In the > spring of 1908 they returned to Kitty Hawk for flight testing. Kitty Hawk > was difficult to reach in those days. Some famous reporters made the effort > to get there, and they published accounts of the test flights saying "it is > all true, the Wrights can fly!" but the public still did not believe it. > They should have conducted those tests in Dayton, in full view of the > public. It would have brought about the recognition they needed months > earlier. > > Here is one of the news reports from Kitty Hawk, Arthur Ruhl, "History at > Kill Devil Hill", Collier's, 30 May 1908: > > https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/wright/htmlFiles/HKDH.html > > This is accurate and detailed, except that it ignores the fact that dozens > of people had seen the earlier flights, and many had signed affidavits > testifying as much, including a bank president. The reporters should have > believed those people. They never interviewed them or expressed any > curiosity. Even the local Dayton papers ignored them. > > - Jed > >
