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Improved Elevated Terminal
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- Subject: Improved Elevated Terminal
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- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:46:20 -0600
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Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To the List:
Does anyone have practical experience with the type of topload that
Tesla disclosed in his circa 1936 paper " New Art of Projecting
Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media" used in
conjunction with a tesla coil? Drawings of the terminal and an
individual attachment can be viewed at
http://www.teslaradio.com/images/image006.jpg and
http://www.teslaradio.com/images/image008.jpg
The terminal consists of a spherical metal frame studded with an
array of glass tubes each containing an electrode of thin sheet metal
suitably rounded, and exhausted to a high vacuum. The tubes shown in
the drawings would have an overall height of about three feet. He
claimed this type of terminal could be raised to a potential of 100
million volts without discharging. I'm wondering how a single tube
of this type would perform.
Gary Peterson