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Re: Bipolar Horizontal Coil - 16" Discharges - Plants (fwd)



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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:55:37 EDT
From: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bipolar Horizontal Coil - 16" Discharges - Plants (fwd)



Hi Adam,
 
    Since a double-blind test is usually one in which  neither the observer 
nor the subject knows which treatment he is being given,  I'm not sure of the 
need for such a protocol in this case, unless  your plants are a lot more 
sentient than mine. ;^)) 
 
    Actually, if the person doing the random selection  and the weighing was 
unaware of which samples had which treatments, I  suppose that would suffice 
for a blind. It seems like enough detail was given to  allow for repeatability 
testing. Unfortunately, I don't have the land here in  town to run such a test 
and growing season in this region is just  about over for this year. Also, 
not being a statistics guru like my late cousin,  I don't know if I would be a 
good judge of a "statistically significant  difference", but these results ARE 
intriguing, even to a hard-assed skeptic  like myself. 
 
Matt D. 
 
 
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> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:20:58  +0000
> From: Jeff Behary <jeff_behary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Bipolar Horizontal Coil  - 16"
> Discharges - Plants (fwd)
> 
> After digging out my  first edition Curtis book, I
> re-read the chapter on
> plant  culture and decided to put it for reference
> here.  The man  who
> originally published the data was Thomas Commerford
> Martin  himself.  
> President of the American Institute  ForElectrical
> Engineers, Editor of
> Electrical World, and friend  of both Tesla and
> Edison:
>  
> Actual Results  Obtained.—A most interesting report
> on electroculture
>  experiments was made recently by Mr. T. C. Martin at
> a convention  of
> electrical men and from this report it may be
> deduced that,  of all the
> processes by means of which plant life may be
>  stimulated, the one
> employing the high frequency current as its
>  fundamental principle is the
> most successful by far. The experiments  mentioned by
> Mr. Martin were
> carried out at the Moraine Farm, a  few miles south
> of Dayton, Ohio, and
> located in the celebrated  Miami River Valley. The
> experiments were
> promoted by F. M. Tait,  formerly president of the
> National Electric Lamp
> Association,  and were in the immediate charge of Dr.
> Herbert G. Dorsey,
> whose  work in this line has long been worthy of
> note. "In preliminary
>  tests, according to Mr. Martin's report," says the
> Philadelphia  Inquirer,
> "small plots were marked off for exposure to
> different  kinds of
> electrification. To insure that the soil of one plot
>  was not better than
> that of another, top earth was collected, mixed  and
> sifted and then was
> laid to the uniform depth of seven  inches over the
> entire area." To quote
> further:
>   
> In the soil of Plot No. 1 was buried a wire screen.
> Over the  plot was a
> network of wire, stretched about 15 inches from the
>  ground. Connecting the
> network above the ground and the screen below  were
> several wire antenna.
> The screen was connected to one  terminal of a Tesla
> coil and the network
> to the other. A  transformer stepped a 110-volt
> alternating current up to
> 5,000  volts, charging a condenser of tin-foil and
> glass plates, which
>  discharged through a primary of the coil. About 130
> watts were  operated
> for an hour each morning and evening.  Plot No. 2
>  was illuminated by a
> 100-watt tungsten lamp with a ruby bulb. The  light
> was turned on for three
> hours daily beginning at  sundown.
>  
> Plot No. 3 was illuminated the same way, except  that
> a mercury vapor lamp
> was used.  No. 4 had no  artificial stimulation of
> any kind, being intended
> as a  comparison between electrically excited plant
> growth and that of
>  natural conditions. " In Plot No. 5 was buried a
> wire net-work  connected
> to the terminal of a 110-volt direct current. The
>  positive terminal was
> attached to a small sprinkling can with a  carbon
> electrode in its center.
> The can being filled, the water  was subjected to
> electrolysis for several
> minutes. The plot was  then sprinkled from the can,
> the theory being that
> the current  might flow from the can, through the
> streams of water to the
>  soil. " Plots Nos. 6 and 7 were sub-divided into
> four individual  boxes,
> two feet square, separated by porcelain insulators
> and  arranged with
> carbon electrodes at each end. To these electrodes
>  were applied both
> direct and alternating currents. " After radish  and
> lettuce seed had been
> planted and germination had begun, the  various
> methods of electrification
> were tried with extreme care.  The result of the
> experiments showed that
> the plants in Plot No.  1 grew in every instance far
> more rapidly than
> those in the  other beds and more than double the
> normal growth as shown in
>  the un- electrified bed."  The comparative results
> obtained with  the
> various processes may be noted in the table which
> follows,  and it is
> interesting to observe that the high frequency
> current  from the Tesla coil
> takes the lead from the standpoint of weight of  the
> edible portion of both
> radishes and lettuce grown under its  influence: 
> Plot 1 Radishes (ten
> plants selected at random):  Tesla Coil Total plant
> weight, grams 265.70
> Edible portion,  grams 139.50 Edible portion, per
> cent 51.15 Tops and
> leaves,  grams 120.50 Tops and leaves, per cent....
> 43.35 Roots, grams '.
>  9.30 Roots, per cent 3.50 Lettuce (ten plants
> selected at random)  67.00
> Edible portion, grams 60.70 Edible portion, per cent
> 90.59  Roots, grams
> 6.30 Roots, per cent 9.41
>  
> Plot 2  Radishes (ten plants selected at random):
> Ruby Light Total plant
>  weight, grams 137.80Edible portion, grams 57.40
> Edible portion, per  cent
> 41.65Tops and leaves, grams 75.70Tops and leaves,
> per  cent....54.92Roots,
> grams '.  4.70Roots, per cent 3.43Lettuce  (ten
> plants selected at random)
> 52.60Edible portion, grams  57.30Edible portion, per
> cent 89.92Roots, grams
> 5.30Roots, per  cent 10.08
>  
> Plot 3 Radishes (ten plants selected at  random):
> Mercury Vapor Total plant
> weight, grams 109.50Edible  portion, grams 40.90
> Edible portion, per cent
> 37.34Tops and  leaves, grams 65.90Tops and leaves,
> per cent.... 60.18Roots,
>  grams '.  3.20Roots, per cent 2.48Lettuce (ten
> plants selected at  random)
> 56.60Edible portion, grams 50.20Edible portion, per
> cent  88.85Roots, grams
> 6.30Roots, per cent 11.15
> 
> Plot 4  Radishes (ten plants selected at random):
> Normal Total plant
>  weight, grams 180.00Edible portion, grams 79.40
> Edible portion, per  cent
> 44.11Tops and leaves, grams 95.00Tops and leaves,
> per  cent.... 52.77Roots,
> grams '.  5.60 Roots, per cent 3.12 Lettuce  (ten
> plants selected at
> random) 46.10Edible portion, grams 41.80  Edible
> portion, per cent 90.67
> Roots, grams 4.30Roots, per cent  9.33
> 
> Plot 5 Radishes (ten plants selected at random): 
>  Direct Current Total
> plant weight, grams 78.50Edible portion, grams  31.00
> Edible portion, per
> cent 39.49Tops and leaves, grams 41.50  Tops and
> leaves, per
> cent....55.66Roots, grams '.   6.00Roots, per cent
> 4.85Lettuce (ten plants
> selected at random)  31.30Edible portion, grams
> 28.20Edible portion, per
> cent  92.10Roots, grams 3.10Roots, per cent 7.99 Jeff
> Behary, c/o The  Turn
> Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
>  http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com





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