User talk:IanWills

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Hi Ian! Please try to begin new talk page threads (such as the one at Talk:Systems engineering) at the bottom of the talk page. That helps to keep things in (rough) chronological order, and makes it easier for people to find new threads. Thanks! --Allan McInnes (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

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Nice edit to Eugenics. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Cheers, -Will Beback 03:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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ADHD
Hi Ian, I have spent the last two nights re-writing and re-structuring the ADHD article. Please take a minute (or three) and read over it and tell me what you think. Please, post your response on the ADHD talk page. *Kat* 06:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm hoping that this will end the edit war there.--*Kat* 08:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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Acoustic telegraph
Your stub article "Acoustic Telegraph" duplicated parts of a larger existing article Acoustic telegraphy and I have therefore merged them. However you explained several things much more clearly and therefore I copied your explanations about multiplexing, telegrapher, Morse key, etc almost word for word, into the earlier article.

You also contributed to the article on Phillip Reis (which I have not edited) and therefore you may be interested in an idea I have long held about Reis's transmitter. Reis had witnesses that affirmed that his telephone could transmit intelligible speech. A Reis telephone from the London Science Museum was tested in 1932 and with proper adjustment it transmitted speech. This led me to infer that the Reis transmitter worked only if the contact points were dirty with specks of coal dust, which is of course, carbon. Coal dust was and is very common in cities that burned coal for heating. But any recently built replica of Reis' transmitter would have clean contacts and it would be a make-or-break device that would not transmit intelligible speech. What do you think of this idea? Greensburger (talk) 04:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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