XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   john larkin  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:50:59 +0100, Thomas Heger    
   > wrote:   
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   > >Am Mittwoch000011, 11.02.2026 um 19:47 schrieb Liz Tuddenham:   
   > >> john larkin  wrote:   
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   > >> [...]   
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   > >>> Why are physics types so often insulting and obnoxious?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I've been to physics meetings that shocked me with their brutality.   
   > >>> That mentality is terrible for brainstorming and inventing things.   
   > >>   
   > >> Physicists are particulary careful to prove that they are NOT inventing   
   > >> things.   
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   > >Of course physicist could invent whatever they want and have the ability   
   > >to invent.   
   > >   
   > >Science isn't organised in 'guilds' and everybody has the right to   
   > >invent, which would include physicists.   
   > >   
   > >But mainly the engineers invent things, because they have more training   
   > >in the use of the required means.   
   >   
   > Training teaches repetition. Dogs are trained.   
   >   
   > Inventing things is a separate skill. It involves being crazy,   
   > exploring the extremes of the solutuin space, staying confused.   
   >   
   > >   
   > >Also the usual job description of engineers is more related to invention   
   > >than those of physicst.   
   > >   
   > >But there exists no laws, that would prohibit inventions by physicists   
   > >-at least not in Germany. US laws are different, however, and nobody   
   > >actually knows, what they forbid or demand (besides a set of   
   > >'sorcerers', which charge insane fees for legal informations).   
   >   
   > There's no legal restrictions on inventing things here in the USA.   
   > Lots of people do it, amateurs included.   
   >   
   > The vacuum diode (Edison effect), the triode,   
      
   Edison discovered the 'Edison effect' but Fleming invented the diode   
   which used it.  De Forest put three electrodes in an evacuated envelope   
   but he thought it was an improvement on the diode detector, the   
   invention of the amplifying triode was made several years later by   
   various experimenters, mainly in Germany.   
      
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