Don's Latest Newsletter: "An Introduction to Induction"

[Administrator]

It's here.

Bill

[alcodiesel]

Thanks, Don, for the newsletter. I felt left out as there were no newer newsletters produced during my tenure at this forum.
Now I really am an Afourian!
I really like the B-17 induction story. Induction: It's a law. That's all I've read so far.

Later: ok I read the whole newsletter. Bravo Zulu (Navy speak for Well Done!)

[toddster]

That reminds me of another WWII induction story, which may be entirely apocryphal. (It was told by my High School physics teacher, but I have never been able to confirm any of it from another source.)

The story goes that an American POW in a German prison camp remembered enough of his high school physics to make an induction coil using the chewing gum wrappers from his rations. He fashioned this into a spark radio to transmit morse code messages from behind enemy lines. Supposedly, this was the inspiration behind part of the plot of "Hogans Heroes." Allegedly, this guy went on to become one of the founders of Tektronix.

Come to think of it, that teacher also told us how farm kids could use induction to steal electricity from high-voltage transmission lines that cross their property.

...yeah, I guess we were pretty gullible kids.