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2026-10-04: emmanuelavionics.org (Kelly papers and biography copies)

Result: positive. Two PDFs saved: - research/files/kelly-1998-faradays-final-riddle-emmanuelavionics.pdf (http://www.emmanuelavionics.org/images/ag_kelly_paper.pdf): "Faraday's Final Riddle; Does the Field Rotate with a Magnet?", an amalgamation of IEI Monographs 5 and 6 (November 1998, ISBN 1 898012 37 3 and 1 898012 42 3). Kelly's own experiments on unipolar induction. - research/files/kelly-bio-emmanuelavionics.pdf (http://www.emmanuelavionics.org/images/ag_kelly_bio.pdf): a printout (dated 1/19/2018) of the World Science Database / naturalphilosophy.org page for Kelly, which reproduces the "In Memoriam" by Dr Ian J. Cowan (National Standards Authority of Ireland) from Galilean Electrodynamics.

Found in the memoriam [web; Cowan is a sympathetic colleague, which he says himself]

  • "For some months during 1996, correspondence appeared in the Irish Times on the subject, which consisted largely of opposition, sometimes quite strongly put, by the mainstream science community, together with Al's doughty rejoinders, offering full public debate with any specialist so disposed (an offer never taken up)."
  • Kelly contacted the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) and the Consultative Committee on the Definition of the Second about the synchronisation of standard clock-stations; Cowan writes that "their literature described as 'relativistic' what was actually a Sagnac correction for the effect of Earth spin on signal propagation."
  • Vigier "published a paper employing Al's analysis" (Phys. Lett. A, 1997). Cowan's own 2003 GED paper concluded "Al's analyses in the area were essentially correct". Kelly was held in high regard at the VIII International Conference on Space, Time & Gravitation, St Petersburg, August 2004.
  • The memoriam says Kelly's "paper appearing in this issue of GED", so a posthumous Kelly paper is in GED vol. 16 no. 6 (Nov/Dec 2005); its title is not found yet.

Bearing on the claims

  • Claim 3: the CCIR/CCDS clock-station correspondence is a documented route by which Kelly argued that a correction labelled "relativistic" is a Sagnac term (record to obtain).
  • Historical record: the 1996 Irish Times correspondence is the documented public dispute (single description, by a sympathetic colleague; the letters themselves not yet found).