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Re: Big conical TC



At 08:49 PM 9/8/96 -0600, you wrote:
>From msr7-at-po.cwru.eduSun Sep  8 20:34:57 1996
>Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 08:12:30 -0400
>From: "Mark S. Rzeszotarski" <msr7-at-po.cwru.edu>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Big conical TC
>
[snip
>
>        You may be thinking of the Griffith Observatory coil in Los Angeles. 
> It is described in TCBA News V5, #1 PP 6-7, and an earlier TCBA News 
>article I can't locate right now.    It was originally built in the 1920's 
>as two vertical orientation conical coils, and was operated as a half wave 
>system.  It was used for vaudeville demonstrations originally.  Because of 
>lack of space, only one coil was fired in later years, after it was donated 
>to the observatory.  [snip]

I have some recollection of seeing it when I was very young -- before
Tesla's demise.  I lived not far away from the Observatory, under the sign
that then read "Hollywoodland", but now says "Hollywood".  That, and the
exhibit on polarized light were the most memorable.  Wallace Edward Brand