Comments on: The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/ History with all the interesting bits left in Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Raveej http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4264 Raveej Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4264 No such thing as the Shmitsonian[sic] copyright umpire, just a question of plagiarism or not. The apology might have been for the benefit of other people who might have trusted that the text you made was your own work. You took it and didn't acknowledge it. Students have been expelled from college for similar activity. Authors, of course, provide references and acknowledgements for work that is not their own. Thankfully, the edifice of perpetuated lies regarding some aspects of the history of science is crumbling. In the age of the internet, a greater number of the population of the world is able to speak, and where someone is a thief (finally succeeding after 3 years of trying and revised supplication), mendacious (ditto), with financial and political connections to force inexplicable decisions, and a member of the Italian Fascist Party who did nothing whatsoever for the progress of science by blocking Jewish scientists from joining the Academy of Science, then one has to call it like it is. There is nothing serious in stating any of that. No such thing as the Shmitsonian[sic] copyright umpire, just a question of plagiarism or not.

The apology might have been for the benefit of other people who might have trusted that the text you made was your own work. You took it and didn’t acknowledge it. Students have been expelled from college for similar activity. Authors, of course, provide references and acknowledgements for work that is not their own.

Thankfully, the edifice of perpetuated lies regarding some aspects of the history of science is crumbling. In the age of the internet, a greater number of the population of the world is able to speak, and where someone is a thief (finally succeeding after 3 years of trying and revised supplication), mendacious (ditto), with financial and political connections to force inexplicable decisions, and a member of the Italian Fascist Party who did nothing whatsoever for the progress of science by blocking Jewish scientists from joining the Academy of Science, then one has to call it like it is. There is nothing serious in stating any of that.

]]> By: Galis http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4261 Galis Wed, 22 May 2013 10:35:02 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4261 Having carved out the role for yourself as the Shmitsonian copyright umpire seems a convenient escape route to avoid the topic/s discussed in the comments. You can continue on your way, surely I'm not following you. By honouring the clarity of language of someone that is capable better than me to elucidate facts and events acknowledged by the history of science doesn't require any apology. An issue far more serious is accusing someone who gave us much of the modernity of being a thief and a briber . Having carved out the role for yourself as the Shmitsonian copyright umpire seems a convenient escape route to avoid the topic/s discussed in the comments. You can continue on your way, surely I’m not following you. By honouring the clarity of language of someone that is capable better than me to elucidate facts and events acknowledged by the history of science doesn’t require any apology. An issue far more serious is accusing someone who gave us much of the modernity of being a thief and a briber .

]]> By: Raveej http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4250 Raveej Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4250 In comment #48 I debunked the pasted in material you got from other sources. In comment #49 you give a reply that doesn't even apologize for your lifting other people's writings and passing it off under your own name without acknowledgment. Then it transpires that you seem to dabble in unwarranted sarcasm, but you must realise that some people will not rise to that bait. If you cannot be specific in making a worthwhile point, then we are stuck with your vague comments as per this last one or, if you are caught red-handed lifting text from third party sources and putting your name to it, then we wonder if there is an apology coming instead of trying to avoid it? Some people own more than one book and they also bother to read them and then are able to use the knowledge that was gained from this. No poorly-researched copy-and-pasting involved. In comment #48 I debunked the pasted in material you got from other sources. In comment #49 you give a reply that doesn’t even apologize for your lifting other people’s writings and passing it off under your own name without acknowledgment. Then it transpires that you seem to dabble in unwarranted sarcasm, but you must realise that some people will not rise to that bait.

If you cannot be specific in making a worthwhile point, then we are stuck with your vague comments as per this last one or, if you are caught red-handed lifting text from third party sources and putting your name to it, then we wonder if there is an apology coming instead of trying to avoid it? Some people own more than one book and they also bother to read them and then are able to use the knowledge that was gained from this. No poorly-researched copy-and-pasting involved.

]]> By: Galis http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4247 Galis Tue, 21 May 2013 18:10:29 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4247 It is since my first comment that I'm inviting you to challenge the history not mine history, the facts that were officially recognized and not only claimed, the opinions of the best brains of the time. It shouldn't be difficult for someone like you who was an eye witness of what happened between the 1880-1900 and who doesn't need to rely on books and documents as me. It is since my first comment that I’m inviting you to challenge the history not mine history, the facts that were officially recognized and not only claimed, the opinions of the best brains of the time. It shouldn’t be difficult for someone like you who was an eye witness of what happened between the 1880-1900 and who doesn’t need to rely on books and documents as me.

]]> By: Raveej http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4243 Raveej Tue, 21 May 2013 13:35:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4243 My point, if it wasn't clear, is that you are clearly out of your depth regarding the subject matter. I do not intend that to sound rude, but it is obvious that the points you present, or copy-and-paste, appear superficial and seem like borrowed opinions. Thank you also for advising people of their rights regarding free speech. My point, if it wasn’t clear, is that you are clearly out of your depth regarding the subject matter. I do not intend that to sound rude, but it is obvious that the points you present, or copy-and-paste, appear superficial and seem like borrowed opinions.

Thank you also for advising people of their rights regarding free speech.

]]> By: Galis http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4239 Galis Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:35 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4239 @Raveej I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Even if Newton hadn't been born someone else would have discovered the laws of dynamics. Unfortunately for you Tesla would have been the last one in the list to substitute Marconi as Tesla's understanding of basic radio communication principles was the same of some peasant living in the middle age. I'm detailing you the official history, no need to superimpose my words to that one who master english better than me. The truth universally accepted by all the people with common sense, by the scientific community, that one historically proven. If your aim is to add originality to fairy tale books written by "Mr Nobody" who saw their bank accounts rising sharply after spreading wrong information about Tesla and taking advantage of people's naivety, you are free of doing so. @Raveej
I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. Even if Newton hadn’t been born someone else would have discovered the laws of dynamics. Unfortunately for you Tesla would have been the last one in the list to substitute Marconi as Tesla’s understanding of basic radio communication principles was the same of some peasant living in the middle age. I’m detailing you the official history, no need to superimpose my words to that one who master english better than me. The truth universally accepted by all the people with common sense, by the scientific community, that one historically proven.
If your aim is to add originality to fairy tale books written by “Mr Nobody” who saw their bank accounts rising sharply after spreading wrong information about Tesla and taking advantage of people’s naivety, you are free of doing so.

]]> By: Raveej http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4188 Raveej Fri, 17 May 2013 17:05:57 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4188 I am very amused that you are paraphrasing a lot of what is on the Wikipedia page on Radio at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio For example, your first paragraph is lifting lot from the Wiki page paragraph that begins with the words: "In contrast…" and, more amusingly, the references to what it says on the Wiki page, and what you are reproducing, the Wiki page superscripts as a 'dubious' reference! You are copying and pasting something that is of dubious quality or referential provenance if it were to be regarded as a fact! Less polite people would call it moonshine! You mention the 1893 Tesla lecture as not being supported by evidence, and yet the Wiki page you lifted you previous paragraph from further goes on to describe that Tesla addressed the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and, as it says on the page "described and demonstrated the principles of his wireless work". Maybe it pays to bother to read the entire web page? For your second paragraph, you're pasting in a vast chunk of text from the footnotes at: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UjXGQSPXvIcC&lpg=PA199&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false and then passing it off as your own! Do you know what plagiarism is?! The text is lifted from the 'Wireless…' book by Sungook Hong. Hong has a picture of Marconi on the cover of his book. If Marconi had never been born, there would still have been tuned/tunable radio and Tesla would not have been ripped off by him, and that is the significance of the Marconi image on the book: someone superfluous to the argument so far as invention goes and yet still ending up on the cover. Wishing you lots of happy copy and pasting! I am very amused that you are paraphrasing a lot of what is on the Wikipedia page on Radio at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio
For example, your first paragraph is lifting lot from the Wiki page paragraph that begins with the words: “In contrast…” and, more amusingly, the references to what it says on the Wiki page, and what you are reproducing, the Wiki page superscripts as a ‘dubious’ reference! You are copying and pasting something that is of dubious quality or referential provenance if it were to be regarded as a fact! Less polite people would call it moonshine!

You mention the 1893 Tesla lecture as not being supported by evidence, and yet the Wiki page you lifted you previous paragraph from further goes on to describe that Tesla addressed the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and, as it says on the page “described and demonstrated the principles of his wireless work”. Maybe it pays to bother to read the entire web page?

For your second paragraph, you’re pasting in a vast chunk of text from the footnotes at:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UjXGQSPXvIcC&lpg=PA199&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false
and then passing it off as your own! Do you know what plagiarism is?! The text is lifted from the ‘Wireless…’ book by Sungook Hong. Hong has a picture of Marconi on the cover of his book. If Marconi had never been born, there would still have been tuned/tunable radio and Tesla would not have been ripped off by him, and that is the significance of the Marconi image on the book: someone superfluous to the argument so far as invention goes and yet still ending up on the cover.

Wishing you lots of happy copy and pasting!

]]> By: Galis http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4150 Galis Tue, 14 May 2013 09:39:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4150 As you may know radio is not the four tuned circuits. The overall concept of electrical tuning was nothing new examples go back to the days of the telegraph. In the case of radio, four-circuit transformers were just one of a multitude of improvements made over the years. It is like saying that the aircraft was invented by the guy who came up with the idea of replacing the propeller with the jet engine. Moreover, Tesla's patent didn't show any presence of a variable inductance as a means of adjusting the tuning the antenna circuit of transmitter and receiver. Tesla actually had only the slightest (if that) understanding of electromagnetic radio physics and the description of his radio system definetely prove it: "....Tesla in fact did not use Hertzian waves. His idea was to make the ether a conductor for long distan es by using extremely high voltage, 20, 000,000 to 30,000,000 volts, and extremely high altitudes, 30,000 to 40, 000 feet or more, to secure transmission from aerial to aerial. Balloons, with wires attached reaching to the ground, were his suggested aerials. His system was really one for transmitting power for motors, lighting, etc ., to 'any terrestrial distance,' though he incidentally mentions 'intelligible messages....". Something more likely to be read in a book of Isaac Asimov rather than in a scientific magazine. And this would be the big leap forward in science given us by Tesla? If you know the guy you cannot be surprised of such an imagination. Was not the same Tesla who claimed of being capable to hear thunderclaps at 500 miles distance? Tesla's admirers claim that Tesla demonstrated message transmission by means of Hertzian waves for the first time in 1893 in his St. Louis lecture. This claim is, however, not supported by any direct evidence (as always when Tesla is involved), and the fact that Tesla used a Geissler tube as a detector (how could one effectively detect Morse-coded signals with the Geissler tube?) strongly weakens the claim. In addition, his ideas about how signals are communicated through space were similar to earth-conductive (wireless) telephony, rather than Hertzian wireless telegraphy. Because Tesla used high-frequency electrical currents in these demonstrations, it is sometimes claimed that he had employed radio signals to illuminate the tubes. But it is clear from his descriptions at the time that he was actually using both conduction through the ground and induction. I'm talking about effective results when remembering 1899, not sci fiction inspired mental trips. In a world crowded by pioneers of radio telecommunication Marconi was the only capable to master the new technology, even with all the patents made public: a rather smart crook! Courts deal with patents and is well known that nTesla was the first one to patent the induction motor simply because Ferraris always refused to patent his discoveries. Ferraris got the idea, Tesla the honours, that's it. Finally, Marconi from the hell has suggested me to remember a delicate and nice thought by Tesla: "...Laxity of morals is a terrible evil, which poisons both mind and body, and which is responsible for a general reduction of the human mass in some countries. Many of the present customs and tendencies are productive of similar hurtful results. For example, the society life, modern education and pursuits of women, tending to draw them away from their household duties and make men out of them, must needs detract from the elevating ideal they represent, diminish the artistic creative power, and cause sterility and a general weakening of the race. .." maybe it can help Nikola in his process of achieving sainthood. As you may know radio is not the four tuned circuits. The overall concept of electrical tuning was nothing new examples go back to the days of the telegraph. In the case of radio, four-circuit transformers were just one of a multitude of improvements made over the years. It is like saying that the aircraft was invented by the guy who came up with the idea of replacing the propeller with the jet engine. Moreover, Tesla’s patent didn’t show any presence of a variable inductance as a means of adjusting the tuning the antenna circuit of transmitter and receiver. Tesla actually had only the slightest (if that) understanding of electromagnetic radio physics and the description of his radio system definetely prove it: “….Tesla in fact did not use Hertzian waves. His idea was to make the ether a conductor for long distan es by using extremely high voltage, 20, 000,000 to 30,000,000 volts, and extremely high altitudes, 30,000 to 40, 000 feet or more, to secure transmission from aerial to aerial. Balloons, with wires attached reaching to the ground, were his suggested aerials. His system was really one for transmitting power for motors, lighting, etc ., to ‘any terrestrial distance,’ though he incidentally mentions ‘intelligible messages….”.
Something more likely to be read in a book of Isaac Asimov rather than in a scientific magazine. And this would be the big leap forward in science given us by Tesla? If you know the guy you cannot be surprised of such an imagination. Was not the same Tesla who claimed of being capable to hear thunderclaps at 500 miles distance? Tesla’s admirers claim that Tesla demonstrated message transmission by means of Hertzian waves for the first time in 1893 in his St. Louis lecture. This claim is, however, not supported by any direct evidence (as always when Tesla is involved), and the fact that Tesla used a Geissler tube as a detector (how could one effectively detect Morse-coded signals with the Geissler tube?) strongly weakens the claim. In addition, his ideas about how signals are communicated through space were similar to earth-conductive (wireless) telephony, rather than Hertzian wireless telegraphy. Because Tesla used high-frequency electrical currents in these demonstrations, it is sometimes claimed that he had employed radio signals to illuminate the tubes. But it is clear from his descriptions at the time that he was actually using both conduction through the ground and induction. I’m talking about effective results when remembering 1899, not sci fiction inspired mental trips. In a world crowded by pioneers of radio telecommunication Marconi was the only capable to master the new technology, even with all the patents made public: a rather smart crook! Courts deal with patents and is well known that nTesla was the first one to patent the induction motor simply because Ferraris always refused to patent his discoveries. Ferraris got the idea, Tesla the honours, that’s it. Finally, Marconi from the hell has suggested me to remember a delicate and nice thought by Tesla:
“…Laxity of morals is a terrible evil, which poisons both mind and body, and which is responsible for a general reduction of the human mass in some countries. Many of the present customs and tendencies are productive of similar hurtful results. For example, the society life, modern education and pursuits of women, tending to draw them away from their household duties and make men out of them, must needs detract from the elevating ideal they represent, diminish the artistic creative power, and cause sterility and a general weakening of the race. ..” maybe it can help Nikola in his process of achieving sainthood.

]]> By: Raveej http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4142 Raveej Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15:44 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4142 Tesla's radio-related lectures and demonstrations started in 1893 (which pre-dates your given year of 1899 - and Marconi claimed not to know anything about these findings that were published around the world in many languages). Range is not the issue, nor is the business of money-making, which you are making it into, but rather the fact of tuned radio, which is what Tesla invented. Marconi's wealth or business dealings are a pointless distraction from the facts. Tuned/tuneable radio and it's inventor, that is the crux. Marconi could not explain how what he was stealing from Tesla worked, and the first Patent Examiner told Marconi that he didn't believe Marconi when he said that he didn't know of Tesla's work. That first Patent Examiner had to 'retire' before Marconi's claim could be 'legitimate' amongst the Victorian British business and political classes who could then make money from it, and that is what so many Mickey Mouse, ranting websites choose to ignore. I didn't mention the 1943 Supreme Court judgment (who is the "parrot" who is repeating anything? you?), though it would never ever have to have come to that if the British, replacement Patent Examiner, for no explanation given, overruled his retired predecessor in allowing Marconi to have Tesla's (previously-registered) British patent on tuned radio. The US Patent office then followed their British counterpart. Could there be something amiss? That was the Marconi company 1912 shares scandal that followed, which seemed to indicate the some people within the company, as well as rich people outside of it, could be proved to be up to no good. Tesla tore up his financial contract with Westinghouse and so did not profit from his invention, so how can he be 'promoting himself' for 50 years?! There was a court case 8 years after Ferraris died, but the Ferraris case failed to prove his (Ferraris) paternity. They look at evidence, listen to the legal and technical arguments, and decided it wasn't Ferraris. Go figure. If you don't like the result, that's legal judgements for you. Tesla’s radio-related lectures and demonstrations started in 1893 (which pre-dates your given year of 1899 – and Marconi claimed not to know anything about these findings that were published around the world in many languages). Range is not the issue, nor is the business of money-making, which you are making it into, but rather the fact of tuned radio, which is what Tesla invented. Marconi’s wealth or business dealings are a pointless distraction from the facts. Tuned/tuneable radio and it’s inventor, that is the crux. Marconi could not explain how what he was stealing from Tesla worked, and the first Patent Examiner told Marconi that he didn’t believe Marconi when he said that he didn’t know of Tesla’s work. That first Patent Examiner had to ‘retire’ before Marconi’s claim could be ‘legitimate’ amongst the Victorian British business and political classes who could then make money from it, and that is what so many Mickey Mouse, ranting websites choose to ignore.

I didn’t mention the 1943 Supreme Court judgment (who is the “parrot” who is repeating anything? you?), though it would never ever have to have come to that if the British, replacement Patent Examiner, for no explanation given, overruled his retired predecessor in allowing Marconi to have Tesla’s (previously-registered) British patent on tuned radio. The US Patent office then followed their British counterpart. Could there be something amiss? That was the Marconi company 1912 shares scandal that followed, which seemed to indicate the some people within the company, as well as rich people outside of it, could be proved to be up to no good.

Tesla tore up his financial contract with Westinghouse and so did not profit from his invention, so how can he be ‘promoting himself’ for 50 years?! There was a court case 8 years after Ferraris died, but the Ferraris case failed to prove his (Ferraris) paternity. They look at evidence, listen to the legal and technical arguments, and decided it wasn’t Ferraris. Go figure. If you don’t like the result, that’s legal judgements for you.

]]> By: Galis http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower/#comment-4140 Galis Mon, 13 May 2013 12:59:22 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=10099#comment-4140 Marconi was the first example of scientist/business man, can we blame him for this reason? I don't think you despise Steve Jobs for having created a successful company as a consequence of his geniality applied in the field of IT. Marconi's success was the result of his scientific achievements and not the contrary. Till 1899 none was able to repeat Marconi's results, and even the US government where Mr "I have invented everything before everyone" Nikola Tesla operated, asked Marconi to install his new technology. All this seems quite strange if everyone had already understood everything and patented everything in the radio domain before Marconi. Radio communication before 1895 Marconi's experiences were only of short range; nothing news, many scientists were able to perform it around the world before Marconi: but it was not radio ! The same 1943 US court verdict, that many naive supporters of Tesla invoke as the evidence of Tesla's priority, affirms exactly the contrary restating Marconi's primacy in the invention of radio: "....The inescapable fact is that Marconi in his basic patent hit upon something that had eluded the best brains of the time working on the problem of wireless communication-Clerk Maxwell and Sir Oliver Lodge and Nikola Tesla...." "...To find in 1943 that what Marconi did really did not promote the progress of science because it had been anticipated is more than a mirage of hindsight..." "...Marconi's reputation as the man who first achieved successful radio transmission rests on his original patent, which became reissue No. 11,913, and which is not here in question...." Yet brainwashed people around the world parrot-like repeat that the honour of Tesla was saved in 1943: really incredible !! The description of Tesla's radio system in the same case gives us the evidence the Tesla was light years away from understanding what radio technology means. Nothing surprising if we remember that he didn't believe in the basic radio communication principles working then and now. Yet someone dare to call him the father of radio, like calling the greatest astrophysical someone who doesn't believe in the force of gravity !! Ferraris pre-dated Tesla in the invention of induction motors, this is now historically acknowledged but Tesla lived others 50 years after Ferraris death and so he was able to promote himself so successfully to make Ferraris forgotten. Thank God nowadays the truth has been established showing that the real crook was Tesla and not Marconi or Ferraris. You can persist in following your "personal cult" although all the historical and scientific evidences says the contrary of what you and unfortunately many others believe. I don't have any missionary vocation, yet is disturbing to see how the history of science and technology can be so easily disrupted. Marconi was the first example of scientist/business man, can we blame him for this reason? I don’t think you despise Steve Jobs for having created a successful company as a consequence of his geniality applied in the field of IT. Marconi’s success was the result of his scientific achievements and not the contrary. Till 1899 none was able to repeat Marconi’s results, and even the US government where Mr “I have invented everything before everyone” Nikola Tesla operated, asked Marconi to install his new technology. All this seems quite strange if everyone had already understood everything and patented everything in the radio domain before Marconi. Radio communication before 1895 Marconi’s experiences were only of short range; nothing news, many scientists were able to perform it around the world before Marconi: but it was not radio ! The same 1943 US court verdict, that many naive supporters of Tesla invoke as the evidence of Tesla’s priority, affirms exactly the contrary restating Marconi’s primacy in the invention of radio:

“….The inescapable fact is that Marconi in his basic patent hit upon something that had eluded the best brains of the time working on the problem of wireless communication-Clerk Maxwell and Sir Oliver Lodge and Nikola Tesla….”

“…To find in 1943 that what Marconi did really did not promote the progress of science because it had been anticipated is more than a mirage of hindsight…”

“…Marconi’s reputation as the man who first achieved successful radio transmission rests on his original patent, which became reissue No. 11,913, and which is not here in question….”

Yet brainwashed people around the world parrot-like repeat that the honour of Tesla was saved in 1943: really incredible !!
The description of Tesla’s radio system in the same case gives us the evidence the Tesla was light years away from understanding what radio technology means. Nothing surprising if we remember that he didn’t believe in the basic radio communication principles working then and now. Yet someone dare to call him the father of radio, like calling the greatest astrophysical someone who doesn’t believe in the force of gravity !!
Ferraris pre-dated Tesla in the invention of induction motors, this is now historically acknowledged but Tesla lived others 50 years after Ferraris death and so he was able to promote himself so successfully to make Ferraris forgotten. Thank God nowadays the truth has been established showing that the real crook was Tesla and not Marconi or Ferraris. You can persist in following your “personal cult” although all the historical and scientific evidences says the contrary of what you and unfortunately many others believe. I don’t have any missionary vocation, yet is disturbing to see how the history of science and technology can be so easily disrupted.

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