Professor Slaby found that by giving one side of the loop less inductance than the other, and at the same time earthing the side having greater inductance at the bottom, he was able to make an arrangement which radiated, not in virtue of the normal oscillations of the condenser, but in virtue of the harmonic oscillations set up in the conductor itself.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
It has been claimed that there is a great advantage in earthing the receiving aerial directly in that it eliminates atmospheric disturbances.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
No, in the city, with its rows of houses one does not have the real impression of returning home, of earthing up like plants at night in the primitive manner, as one has it here, under those Basque roofs, solitary in the midst of the country, with the grand, surrounding black, the grand, shivering black of the foliage, the grand, changing black of the clouds and the summits.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti