Text: Tesla insisted to the end that electromagnetic waves in vacuum ether were longitudinal rather than transverse. His disapproval of the transverse oscillation theory is exemplified by his 1919 statement in Electrical Experimenter: "The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission may be kept up for a while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable aberrations of the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history." (Nikola Tesla, The True Wireless, Electrical Experimenter, May, 1919, p. 87. Tesla had discovered the scalar EM/EG waves - his famous 'standing clumnar waves - in his Colorado Springs experiments in 1899. Four years later, Whittaker, On the Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, Math. Ann., Vol. 57, 1903, p. 333-355; wrote the theory for this 'standing EM potential' wave.

See Also: SCALAR; VECTOR; SYMPATHETIC OUTREACH; LONGITUDINAL; TRANSVERSE

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