Scandals in Electromagnetic Theory http://www.ivorcatt.com/28scan.htm
Some of the correspondence
with officials of the Institution of Electrical Engineers as they fooled around for thirty years (and continue
to fool around) in order to delay publication of our advances. We remain totally censored. The mid-98 Lynch-Catt
paper published by the IEE is only a question about classical theory. None of
our own work has ever been published by the IEE. I.C. feb99.
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/y7aiee.htm
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Dear
Mr. Davidson,
'Displacement
current'
Your
contribution on the above subject has been received.
….
Yours sincerely B Dunkley. Group Ed., ProcIEE 6oct76
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To B Dunkley, Group Editor, Proceedings IEE.
From Ivor Catt. 15oct76.
….
The
first step in attempting to disclose (=communicate) all of our results is the
article "Displacement Current". [Later published in
Wireless World, dec78.] http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrwiworld78dec1.htm
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Confidential. [Dunkley always
added this, and I always repudiated confidentiality in every letter. IC feb99]
To Ivor Catt
From B Dunkley, Group Ed., ProcIEE 12nov76
Materials submitted to
Proceedings IEE and later correspondence. [=article Displacement Current,
pub. Wireless World dec78.] http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrwiworld78dec1.htm
The
answer from the IEE Electronics Board is, predictably, negative.
Since
our telephone conversation, I have come to the conclusion that you may have something
to tell the electrical-engineering profession, but the way you will achieve
this is by releasing the information very slowly, rather than, as many radical
thinkers have tried unsuccessfully, in a flood.
In
fact I would even advise you to withold information
deliberately at first, and suggest to readers that they are making discoveries
for themselves…..
….
….
I am
sure that now is the right time for us to go back to fundamentals and to form
new and more versatile models for components and their behaviour. ….
[IC feb99. In the event, the IEE published nothing whatsoever
for the next 22 years.] http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x162.pdf
Now no publication for a further 20 years,
total 50 years of embargo. Ivor Catt April 2018. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.htm in a book promoted by an IEEE
editor.
REFEREES'
COMMENTS [on the paper later published in WW dec78.]
“Displacement current” http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrwiworld78dec1.htm
. Forrest Bishop says this is the
most important paper published in the 20th century.
Referee No. 1
The technical standard of this contribution is
not high enough and it is not very well written.
There is nothing new in stating that lumped
circuits are an approximation to distributed systems, nor is it new to suggest
that transmission-line concepts are relevant to digital-systems design when
high-speed switching is involved.
If better presented, the material might be useful in an educational journal (e.g. Int. J of Electrical Engineering Education), but in its present form it is not suitable for any IEE publication. [It was later rejected by the journal suggested, and by all other learned journals throughout the world. IC feb99.]
Referee No. 2
The paper says that a
capacitor can be considered as a low impedance transmission line and that if
the line is kept short that the current and voltage waveforms approximate
closely to those of an ideal capacitor. This is a well known
result. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2603b.htm
; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3a92.pdf
; http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/63lem2.htm
; http://www.ivorcatt.com/6_5.htm
In addition the paper is badly presented, and
makes no mention in the text of two of the diagrams provided or the single
reference given. The headings used entitled Abstract and Appendix are not particularly appropriate.
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To F G Helps, Deputy Secretary, IEE.
From I Catt 20nov83.
…. I have again started to think about how to
get the IEE to stop obstructing my work in both my fields, both computer architecture
and electromagnetic theory.
After rejecting all attempts by me to publish
my work on
computer architecture (“Catt spiral”) for
ten years, I was at last invited by Professor F G Heath to speak about it at an
IEE colloquium in the IEE Savoy Place a year ago. However, the embargo on any
publication of my work remains. It is reasonable to conjecture that the
continual recommendations to reject every paper by me comes
from a very small clique including perhaps Aspinall
and Randall. This action by them has inflicted very heavy damage on me, and
much more serious damage to the British Computer Industry. As a result of their
action through the IEE, my patented work, in
particular the later part of it, the subject of my later (1975 vintage)
worldwide patents, is virtually unknown. In the light of this total lack of
mention in the learned journals, it was very difficult to get projects going,
although in spite of this Burroughs Corp put in $300,000 plus and the British
Govt. has 100% funded five projects to a total of more than £100,000. Of
course, the blocking of all communication of my inventions means that the
lion's share of government financial support goes to your IEE referees, Aspinall and Randall, or whoever they are.
[Later, Sir Clive Sinclair gave me a lot of
money for my worldwide patents. He then invested £12 millions,
set up a company Anamartic to develop the invention,
and it came to market with acclaim. I was never allowed to publish, but an IEE
staff member Dettmer did publish commentary on the
Sinclair project. There was an enormous amount about it in the general media,
e.g. Sunday Times and on TV. Nothing in the IEE.]
The IEE has also for more than ten years
rejected all attempts by me to publish my work on electromagnetic theory.
….
I think that as I become more and more
acknowledged as a leading if not the leading expert in the world in both
fields, the continued obstinacy of a small rump of ignorant referees serving
the IEE increases the damage to the IEE exponentially.
Yours sincerely, Ivor Catt 20nov83.
The
embargo has now continued for 50 years. Ivor Catt 4.4.2018