Re: "Integratron"

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Metlicka Marc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>

weazle,
after watching the bits of the show, i too thought "that sure looks like
a tesla primary on the ceiling". and being always the thinker, i
figured, well, if the outer ring rotated by air pressure as the man
stated and those long tubes sticking out could pick up enough static
electricity, maybe it could be charged to a small amount and ran into a
cap of some sort, it could charge an electrode high enough to give the
small discharge they were showing coming from the ball terminal. but
hey, that was just my scientific mind trying to rationalize what they
were talking about.
marc

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
> 
> Hello Coilers,
> 
> I just finished watching a program on The Discovery Channel called
> Beyond Bizarre which included a segment on a structure built out
> in the Amercan south-west in the 1950's.
> 
> The structure was called the "Integratron" by its builder, a man by
> the name of George Van Castel (sic), who had been a test pilot for
> Hughes Aircraft.
> 
> >From the outside it resembled an observatory telescope building.
> Several shots taken of the inside showed windings much like the
> ones at Tesla's Colorado lab, a series of concentric rings on
> the ceiling, and sparks discharging from a ball shaped terminal.
> 
> My immediate thought was that it was a Tesla coil of rather large
> size and unusual construction.  Has anyone on the list heard of
> this device?  Did anyone else see the program?  Apparently it is
> open to the public.
> 
> I wish I had been more observant when the clip started so I'd
> have remembered where in the south-west it is located, but it
> may have been Arizona or California.
> 
> 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
> 
> Listening: 147.030+ and 442.075+
> E-mail:    weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca
>            or ve3ear-at-rac.ca
> Web site:  www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle