Re: Polished Copper Sphere for VDG, TC, or...?

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Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 1/20/04 10:14:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

That looks pretty! But I've given up on spheres. Even on top of toroids they
just tend to push the breakout on the toroid downwards.

Tom L.

Hi Tom, All,
     Has anyone here tried building a "mushroom" topload with the 
proportions, but not the size, that Tesla proposed for Wardenclyffe? Seems 
to me that since the ROC is smallest at the bottom, the most intense field 
would always be directed downward. Maybe? It might make an interesting 
field plot exercise for some snow-bound individual with access to a lot of 
computing power. It could, perhaps, be approximated mathematically as a 
stack of N toroids of minor diameter d and varying major diameters as 
N-->infinity and d--> zero.
     Of course, it's possible that the "business part" of the Wardenclyffe 
topload was to be a large toroid as in Pat. No. 1,119,732 and the rest of 
the "mushroom cap" was just a weather shield. Always fun to speculate on 
things that never were completed.

Matt D.