[Thursday] Fwd: [Wireless-History] Origin of "Barretter"

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> From: Bill Burns <billb at ftldesign.com>
> Date: August 1, 2022 at 3:15:05 PM EDT
> To: Wireless-History at groups.io
> Subject: Re: [Wireless-History] Origin of "Barretter"
> Reply-To: Wireless-History at groups.io
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> The origin of the word is mentioned in The Electrical Journal, Vol.51, p.1043. 16 October 1903: "Fessenden's Work in Wireless Telegraphy".
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> https://books.google.com/books?id=Nrv8nIu2MbQC&pg=PA1043
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> Snippet of the article is attached.
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> "The most important of another budget of patents recently issued to Prof. Fessenden is one covering a modification of the hot-wire instrument called by the inventor a "barretter," from the old French word "barretor," "exchanger," from its property of exchanging a given amount of high-frequency energy for continuous current energy, the latter form being easier to manage."
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> Patents referred to in the article:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-wire_barretter
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytic_detector
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> --
> Bill
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> 
>> On 01-Aug-22 1:37 PM, WB2UAQ wrote:
>> I did a little research looking for the origin of the name given to a temperature sensitive resistor, the*barretter*.   I have not found much.  Does anyone know where that term came from?  Maybe it was a term used in chemistry.
>> Thanks,
>> Pete
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