From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   john larkin  wrote or quoted:   
   >The vacuum diode (Edison effect), the triode, the airplane, the   
   >klystron, electronic TV, the personal computer, lots of stuff was   
   >invented by unauthorized people.   
   >But I think there is a negative correlation of inventing vs advanced   
   >degrees.   
      
   |Hertz did not realize the practical importance of his radio   
   |wave experiments. He stated that,[27][28][29]   
   |   
   |  It's of no use whatsoever . . . this is just an experiment   
   |  that proves Maestro Maxwell was right - we just have these   
   |  mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the   
   |  naked eye. But they are there.   
   |   
   |Asked about the applications of his discoveries, Hertz   
   |replied,[27]   
   |   
   |  Nothing, I guess.   
   |   
   Wikipedia page "Heinrich Hertz" (a professor of physics with   
   a Ph.D.)   
      
     PS: When I crossposted and followupped to physics groups recently,   
     my intention was to keep off-topic material out of sci.electronics.   
     design. But this might have kind of backfired insofar as it then   
     brought certain difficult people into the debate. So, now I have   
     removed the physics group from the Newsgroups header again as,   
     after all, the above quotation is kind of related to electronics.   
      
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