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Re: Tesla's Wireless Power Transmission ==> was Re: Non-tech Qu
Hi Tom and the rest of the group,
another book, that is cheaper and easier to get hold of, is the reprint of an
article first published in 1919:-
TESLA The True Wireless
Edited by: George Trinkaus
Published by: High Voltage Press, 4326 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR 97206
ONLY: $6.00
In it Tesla explains all in his own words!
Regards,
Gavin, U.K.
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: "Thomas McGahee" <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
>
> My response to Bill Wysock is:
> RIGHT ON!
>
> For those who do not agree, please take the time to read Tesla's
> OWN account of what he was trying to achieve. It can be found in
> the book "Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents and
> Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and
> Transmission Of Power" Edited by Leland I. Anderson, published
> by Sun Publishing, Denver Colorado. I purchased my copy from the
> Tesla Book Company, PO Box 121873 Chula Vista, CA 91912 phone number
> 1-800-393-2056. The book was published in 1992 and is about 200 pages
> long.
>
> This book is not ABOUT Tesla: It is a TRANSCRIPT of a pre-hearing
> interview between Tesla and his legal counsel in 1916. Read it and you
> will see that Tesla was ADAMANT about his method of power transmission
> NOT being based on Hertzian waves.
>
> The astute student of Tesla's notes and writings and articles and
> patents will see that Tesla was absolutely convinced that he had
> discovered something of great value that would allow him to transmit
> large quantities of power with little loss.
>
> Tesla's giant tower at Wardenclyffe was NOT designed to hurl
> lightning. In fact he went to a great deal of trouble to make sure
> he could generate tremendous electrical pressures WITHOUT having
> streamers. The topload on the coil was designed to suppress streamers
> and allow him to build up very high electrical pressures. Take a look
> at his ground system! He put as much work into the ground system
> as he did into the topload. It was humongous! The ground system
> was his great FOOTHOLD so that with the giant topload he could
> create a mighty PUSH into the atmosphere. Look at his patents on
> conducting immense currents using rarified gas as the conductor.
> Look at his patents on the system of 4 tuned circuits. Read what
> he himself said. When you read Anderson's book you are struck by the
> fact that Tesla considered radio transmissions mere child's play.
> Time and again he harks on the fact that engineers have greatly
> misunderstood what it is he was really trying to do, and how he was
> going to do it.
>
> It is a shame that he was never allowed to give his ideas on power
> transmission a full-scale test. As a result many people dismiss
> his ideas on this subject as the futile ravings of a man who was
> very smart about many things, but totally wrong about power
> transmission.
>
> Recently some scientists have been re-discovering
> some of the bits and pieces of this particular puzzle. I believe
> that in the end Tesla will be vindicated in his hunch that he had
> discovered something of great utility and importance. I just
> hope that he gets the proper credit for having discovered it all
> first, at the turn of the last century...
>
> Fr. Tom McGahee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Tesla's Wireless Power Transmission ==> was Re: Non-tech Qu
>
msnip...