Maybe Heaviside should not have scrapped it all and we would be a millennium ahead by now..
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Original copies are very rare I’m told. Looking at the original equations is nearly impossible. But when one looks at some of the comments by people in very secretive jobs, they may have been realized. But not made public because the very economic foundations everywhere would be totally discarded. Ask N. Tesla or A. Einstein - both of whom would have died in obscurity, were it not for Maxwell.
“But when one looks at some of the comments by people in very secretive jobs, they may have been realized.”
I also highly suspect that myself. And as you say bits and pieces leak out here and there hinting to this possibility.
I think we are actually way ahead of anything we could ever imagine. :)