Talk:John Stone Stone

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: 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)
thread_title: On Stone's death

message: 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)
thread_title:  Mr. John Stone Stone on Tesla (Pre 1917 I'll look for the article)

message: There are a lot of links in the see also section to basic electrical theory concepts.  Most of these are not especially connected with Stone .  Anyone care to give a justification for them? SpinningSpark 18:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems bloated, I would trim it. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: I am noticing large parts of this article seem to be a direct copy/paste from a PD source 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)
replies: text: …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)
thread_title: Large scale copy/paste of s source

message: 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)
replies: text: Ah, I see it's in the metadata. SpinningSpark 15:21, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  medal source date