theories on using "atmospheric electricity" for power and wireless telegraph transmissions
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Professor Nathan Loomis (Harvard)
Mahlon Loomis (21 July 1826 – 13 October 1886) was an American dentist and inventor known for proposing a wireless communication and electric power generating system based on his idea that there were electrically charged layers in the Earth's atmosphere.
Loomis' theory was that the Earth's upper atmosphere was divided into discrete voltage layers, rising from zero at ground level to higher voltage with altitude, and that these could be "tapped" using kites fitted with metallic screen conductors and 600 foot long copper cords, flown high above hills and mountains, in order to conduct electricity for use on the ground or to transmit and receive electromagnetic code impulse messages. He claimed that in 1868, he sent wireless telegraphic transmissions between two Virginia hilltops 18 miles apart using apparatus based on his theories. Historians' takes on what he actually did range from his claim being unproven to theories that he may have inadvertently sent electromagnetic wave (radio) signals between the two hilltops, despite his impractical ideas about atmospheric electrical charges.
^"Mahlon Loomis's Journal", American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Reason Gallery C (loc.gov)
^ abc"Dr. Mahlon Loomis" Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, revised by Elisha S. Loomis in 1908, pages 481–482.
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wireless signaling were put forward by William Henry Ward (1871) and MahlonLoomis (1872) that were based on the erroneous belief that there was an electrified...
dating back to an 1872 idea for a proposed wireless power system by MahlonLoomis. Tesla not only believed that he could use this layer as his return...
wire, and thus is sometimes listed among supposed inventors of radio. MahlonLoomis http://www.npr.org/euonline/members/feature/inventors/references.htm...
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like a telegraph wire. A few months after Ward received his patent, MahlonLoomis of West Virginia received U.S. patent 129,971 for a similar "wireless...
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move to Montana to open a sheep-ranching business with his older brother Mahlon. In 1882, he moved to Minneapolis after the Winter of 1882 killed the sheep...
considered but eventually passed over for the role of Janet Leigh's lover, Sam Loomis, in the classic thriller Psycho (1960); the role went to John Gavin. Tryon...
re-elected lieutenant governor in the 1942 election, and Orland Loomis was elected governor. When Loomis died before taking office, Goodland acted as governor for...
Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1639 to 1908. Coudersport, Pennsylvania: Mahlon J. Colcord Publisher. pp. 123–124. "The New Republic". The New Republic...
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president of Williams College Catharine Hill 1976, president of Vassar College Mahlon Hoagland 1944, former scientific director at Worcester Foundation for Biomedical...
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