Louis Rota (1886-1951)

Louis Rota, born Luigi Georgio Valerio Rota, is a forgotten pioneer of radio electricity. In 1915, the British Admiralty invited him to join the research teams working on the military applications of radio waves: air and underwater detection, securing radio communications, etc. .... He benefited all his life from subsidies allowing him to finance his research while creating his own laboratory.

Listening to telluric currents.

Louis Rota was particularly interested in telluric currents and designed devices to detect and analyze them. After years of research, he concluded that these were more fundamental phenomena than electro-magnetism and named them "universal currents". After his death in 1951, his tools and archives were dispersed, his laboratory destroyed, and his knowledge lost..

In search of the "universal currents".

LGV Rota is also our grandfather and our great-grandfather. By discovering what little remains of him, two questions arise: How did he manage to obtain such financial support for his research for more than 40 years? What would he have discovered?
By objectively publishing all the archives concerning him, we hope to gather other elements that will shed light on the path of this extraordinary relative.

Site under renovation

Wikirota (which hasn't changed for years...) is undergoing a makeover. Most of the content will be reorganized and will include new historical and technical information in order to create a site that is more dynamic and open to the exchange of ideas.

At the beginning of the last century, Louis Rota made sensational statements about a new source of energy that he thought he could control. He humbly admitted later that he was wrong "because of incorrect assumptions".

He did, however, obtain significant financial support while working closely with, among others, military men and doctors. But he never completely revealed "his secret" which he described using a formalism understood only by himself.

Did he really discover something unexplained? Why was it given so much funding? The restoration of its devices, the opening of military archives may be able to provide some answers.

8-Nov-2022
The new site has a few new pages but only 80% of the old one ...

Old Site

Dr. Watson's Investigation

Mike (Michael) Watson was an English scientist who, around 1958, became interested in the work of Louis Rota. He then visited what remained of Génissieux's laboratory and was allowed to study the devices and metal blocks he found there. Many years later, Mike had the opportunity to meet one of Louis Rota's sons and agreed to publish, in 2008 on this site, a summary of his investigation.

Mike has since left us, but we have kept the text of his investigation, adding only a few comments.

The Universal Current

Mike reveals how he became aware of Louis Rota's work and what he found while visiting what remained of Rota's lab in 1958. After learning 16 years later that Rota had a son, he traveled to France to visit him.

Nature and detection of the Universal Currents

Mike analysis of Rota’s apparatus allows him to gain an insight into its operation. He gives details about de construction of the blocks Rota uses to capture the telluric current he called "Universal Current"

The Rota's Lamp

Rota built lamps powered by telluric currents captured using special metal blocks. Unfortunately, these lamps were destroyed or stolen prior to Mike's visit to the Rota lab.

The Universal Currents / Experimentation

Using a Rota block, Mike conducted some experiments and provide detail information about the process, hoping that this might incite some researchers to proceed a deeper experimentation.

The main work of Louis Rota

1915: Electro-Gravitation

Could this machine defy gravity?

1918: Underwater Transmission and Detection

What was the efficient of this iceberg and submarin detector?

1925: the U.C.D.D. F

Is this antenna that of a passive radar?

1936: Medical Applications

Study and application of the Universal Current in a medical envrionment

The documents in the Rota file

Se site contient presque tous les documents concernant Louis. Il existe probablement des information des information displonible dans les archives Militaires/ Que louis Rota air ou nn trouver comment is a plu recevoir,, malgres ceratins echecs tant de soutient du gouvernement.

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