Re: Practical Tesla

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

David,
       I think your "facts" need checking: 

On 15 Feb 2002, at 11:01, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> >	Any photos of his spiral coils?  Have never seen any.
> 
> A good book for you to read is a Tesla biography by Marc Seifer.  You'll see
> a picture of Tesla posing in front of a flat spiral there.  I have that
> picture on my computer somewhere.  If you are interested, I can email it to
> you.
> 
> >> He did this in his thirties and forties.  After Wardencliffe,
> >> Tesla branched out into resonance with fluids.  I hear the uninformed on
> >> this list talk about Tesla as though he had lost his senses after
> >> Wardencliffe.  In fact, that is when he invented the frequency meter,
> fluid
> >> meter, auto ignition system, fluid turbine, and VTOL aircraft among
> others.
> >> After Wardencliffe, Tesla also worked more with electrostatics on a small
> >> scale as well as longitudinal waves.
> 
> > Compared to his earlier work those were all trivial things and never found
> their way into practical use. Do you know anything different?
> 
> Oh my!  There isn't a gasoline powered internal combustion engine on the
> planet that I know of that doesn't use Tesla's auto ignition system.  That
> seems to be practical use for an invention.  Many large ships use the Tesla
> turbine as the primary propulsion system.  That sounds practical.  The US
> Marines use VTOL aircraft today, that sounds practical.  Industrial
> processes in all markets that have fluids running through pipes use Tesla's
> fluid meters, that sounds practical.  Every car in the world has a
> speedometer and it is the exact same principle Tesla invented 100 years ago,
> that's practical.

Didn't Charles Babbage invented the speedometer?

Malcolm
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