RE: humor, was:Re: Transformers for sale

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Original poster: "Daniel A. Kline" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu> 



 > -----Original Message-----
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 > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 7:10 PM
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 > Subject: Re: humor, was:Re: Transformers for sale
 >
 >
 > 	I plan to build an SSTC some day after some of my other
 > many projects
 > are completed, but still consider the spark-gap kind as the only "real
 > TC"s" in spite of the magnificent performance some of the guys are
 > getting solid state.  I built my first coil in 1941, stolen NST and
 > glass plate capacitor, and my last mini coil only a year or so ago.
 > Hard to relize that first coil was only 42 years after
 > Colorado Springs,
 > of which I'd never heard at the time, and over 62 years ago.
 > Time flies
 > when you're having fun!
 >
 > Ed
 >
 > Glider pilot, sometime canoeist (sp????), muzzle-loading gun shooter,
 > antique radio collector, antique book collector, microwave enthusiast,
 > etc. etc.  Old or new they're all fun........

In 1941? While Tesla was still alive? If I recall correctly, the first
"coil-plans for the masses"
were written up by Kenneth Sweezy for, ummm, Popular Science, maybe? And
I think he got the plan from Tesla himself. I know there were lots of
other coil plans before that, but they were mostly in journals or
Scientific American. At least that's what I found out, in my research.
Do you remember where your plan came from?
Thanks,
Dan K.