Re: MIT wireless energy transfer 'breakthrough' now vaunted by Science News ... (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:09:05 +0000
From: Jeff Behary <jeff_behary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: MIT wireless energy transfer 'breakthrough' now vaunted by Science
    News ... (fwd)

A note on the 'impracticality' of one of Tesla's lighting experiments...

While lighting an incadescent bulb with induced currents through the human 
body may seem rediculous as a valid new method of lighting...
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/1895CenturyMAgazine/images/18950016.jpg

...it became a standard method for physicians to monitor the current flowing 
through the human body for various forms of Diathermy treatments using Tesla 
Coils.  While the machines were equipt standard with milliamperemeters to 
measure the current output of the coils, the amount of current actually 
flowing through the patient was variable largely due to the body composition 
and tissue location of the treatment.  To make documentation and treatments 
easier, an incadescent bulb was placed in series with the patient and a 
simple color chart used by the hospital staff to take readings.

This seems crude, but was adopted by most manufactures and used well into 
the 20s and 30s...
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/Library/FischerColorScale/index.htm

Perhaps not the best way to light a room, unless of course it was a room 
full of people being treated for pnemonia in the 1920s.  These items 
appeared on the market with Tesla Coils as early as 1901.

Jeff Behary, c/o
The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com

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