2.3.2. Less known history ("old" results, before Veselago’s; <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>complete list)"Everyth<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>g of importance has been said before, by someone who did not discover it".(Alfred North Whitehead, 1916, address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science;mathematician, philosopher, supervised Bertrand Russell mathematical dissertation).- Site: Alexander Mo<strong>ro</strong>z; http://www.wave-scatter<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>g.com/negative.html- S. A. Tretyakov, "Research on negative refraction and backward-wave media: A historicalperspective", EPFL Latsis Symposium 2005, Lausanne, Feb.-Mar. 2005- C. Caloz, T. Itoh, Elect<strong>ro</strong>magnetic <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>Metamaterials</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>: Transmission L<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>e <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>Theory</st<strong>ro</strong>ng> and Mic<strong>ro</strong>waveApplications, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006, Ch. 1- H. Lamb, P<strong>ro</strong>c. London Math. Soc. 1, 473 (1904)(backward waves; mechanical systems)- A. Schuster, An Int<strong>ro</strong>duction to the <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>Theory</st<strong>ro</strong>ng> of Optics, Edward Arnold,London, 1904, pp. 313-318 (backward eltm. waves)- H. C. Pockl<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>gton, Nature 71, 607 (1905) (phase velocity orientedopposite to the g<strong>ro</strong>up velocity)- L. I. Mandel’shtam, Jh. Eksp.Teor. Fiz. 15, 476 (1945) (Russian);Complete Works, vol. 5, Academy of Sci. Publ.,Moscow, 1950, pp. 428-467- G. D. Malyuzh<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>ets, Jh. Tekh. Fiz. 21, 940 (1951) (Russian) (v panti II v g)- D. V. Sivukh<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>, Opt. Spekt<strong>ro</strong>sk. 3, 308 (1957) (Russian) (n < 0)ASTiGMAT
Examples of "old" resultsWire media <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng> the 1960sW. Rotman, IRE Trans. Antenna P<strong>ro</strong>pagation10, 82 (1962)Split r<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>gs <st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng> the 1950sS. A. Schelkunoff et al, Antennas:<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>Theory</st<strong>ro</strong>ng> and Practice,Wiley, NY, 1952Backward-wave transmission l<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>esG. D. Malyuzh<st<strong>ro</strong>ng>in</st<strong>ro</strong>ng>ets, Jh. Tekh. Fiz. 21, 940 (1951)ASTiGMAT