Talk:John Stone Stone

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Material from Wireless World
I wish to challenge the material recently inserted by Reddi from an old Wireless World article. It is a direct copy of the article, without making this clear to the reader. The material is inaccurate, Stone was not president, and most of the rest is largely trivial or irrelevant, going on about the papers Armstrong presented is off-topic for an article about Stone, and it is not particularly in an encyclopaedic style. I suggest removing it.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  23:56, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Do you know that most of this article is from public domain sources? I don't think you do. --J. D. Redding 00:07, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * That does not really change anything.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  00:29, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * No. It's kinda to the point ... atleast to your point of 'direct copy of the article'. Most of this article was "direct copy of the article" that were in the public domain. Want the links? Look at the references. Or maybe you don't read the references ...
 * Anyways, please don't remove pertinent encyclopaedic information (such as Stone talking about the inventor of FM radio, Armstrong). Thanks. --J. D. Redding 00:34, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I have removed the paragraph copy/pasted from The Electrical world and engineer. (1903). New York: McGraw Pub. Co.. Page 700 since it is un-encyclopedic, being a primary source with no secondary source to interpret it so the source could be wrong (110 years wrong to be exact) (WP:PST. Moved to link to Further reading. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:19, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

On Stone's death
Question: The article was very helpful, but might have a minor problem. On Stone's death, it says "...alongside his mother Jeanne Stone and sister Egypta Stone Wilson." Are you sure his mother's name was Jeanne and that he had a sister named Egypta? Check out Charles Pomeroy Stone, husband of one and father of the other. I recall duaghters named Fanny and Hettie, but no Egypta. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.129.103.208 (talk) 07:03, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Mr. John Stone Stone on Tesla (Pre 1917 I'll look for the article)
I misunderstood Tesla. I think we all misunderstood Tesla. We thought he was a dreamer and visionary. He did dream and his dreams came true, he did have visions but they were of a real future, not an imaginary one. Tesla was the first man to lift his eyes high enough to see that the rarified stratum of atmosphere above our earth was destined to play an important role in the radio telegraphy of the future, a fact which had to obtrude itself on the attention of most of us before we saw it. But Tesla also perceived what many of us did not in those days, namely, the currents which flowed away from the base of the antenna over the surface of the earth and in the earth itself.

Source: MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, HELD AT THE ENGINEERING SOCIETIES BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1917 (PRESENTATION OF THE EDISON MEDAL TO NIKOLA TESLA.) http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1917-05-08.htm (CaptianNemo (talk) 01:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC))

Large scale copy/paste of s source
I am noticing large parts of this article seem to be a direct copy/paste from a PD source[http://books.google.com/books?id=OO8pAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Other+important+inventions+of+his+in+wireless+telegraphy+are+the+%22direction+finder,%22+an+apparatus+by+means+of+which+the+wireless+telegraph+equipment+of+any+vessel+may+be+used+to+enable+the+navigator+to+determine+the+direction+from+which+wireless+telegraph+signals+are+coming,+thus+locating+the+bearing+or+direction+from+his+vessel+of+any+wireless+telegraph+station+on+another+ship+or+on+shore+and+enabling+him+to+determine+his+bearings+in+the+thickest+weather+at+a+far+greater+distance+than+he+could+hear+a+fog+signal+or+even+see+a+light+in+clear+weather,%E2%80%94it+will+indicate+the+direction+or+bearing+of+a+wireless+station+twenty+to+seventy-five+miles+away,+to+within+two-thirds+of+a+point%E2%80%94a+system+by+which+the+messages+are+automatically+rendered+secret+or+illegible+except+at+the+station+at+which+they+are+intended+to+be+received&source=bl&ots=As226rCoVN&sig=a1q3ultY_EANik0s5DZKkX0__1w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DTGNUsGRBuPc4APC9IDwCw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Other%20important%20inventions%20of%20his%20in%20wireless%20telegraphy%20are%20the%20%22direction%20finder%2C%22%20an%20apparatus%20by%20means%20of%20which%20the%20wireless%20telegraph%20equipment%20of%20any%20vessel%20may%20be%20used%20to%20enable%20the%20navigator%20to%20determine%20the%20direction%20from%20which%20wireless%20telegraph%20signals%20are%20coming%2C%20thus%20locating%20the%20bearing%20or%20direction%20from%20his%20vessel%20of%20any%20wireless%20telegraph%20station%20on%20another%20ship%20or%20on%20shore%20and%20enabling%20him%20to%20determine%20his%20bearings%20in%20the%20thickest%20weather%20at%20a%20far%20greater%20distance%20than%20he%20could%20hear%20a%20fog%20signal%20or%20even%20see%20a%20light%20in%20clear%20weather%2C%E2%80%94it%20will%20indicate%20the%20direction%20or%20bearing%20of%20a%20wireless%20station%20twenty%20to%20seventy-five%20miles%20away%2C%20to%20within%20two-thirds%20of%20a%20point%E2%80%94a%20system%20by%20which%20the%20messages%20are%20automatically%20rendered%20secret%20or%20illegible%20except%20at%20the%20station%20at%20which%20they%20are%20intended%20to%20be%20received&f=false] without meeting the requirements of WP:PLAGIARISM, i.e. insufficient mention that this has been done. Looks to be the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, James Terry White, 1917. The 1892 date in the small ref provided is obviously wrong. I am guessing it should at least get that-->. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * …and because the source is so old, it uses rather stilted terminology and doesn't offer any sort of comparison with other developments. It needs a complete re-write, IMHO. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

medal source date
You had citation bot add a date to this source for Stone's Franklin Institute award. The date added is not the date of the award, the date the source was retrieved, or the date of the copyright notice. As far as I can tell "January 11, 2014" does not appear anywhere on the page. Care to explain how you arrived at that date and what its significance is? SpinningSpark 15:05, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see it's in the metadata. SpinningSpark 15:21, 25 June 2022 (UTC)