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Re: Safety FAQ (Electrical Hazards)
Tesla List wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: Safety FAQ (Electrical Hazards)
>
> >From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comMon Jul 15 22:23:25 1996
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:09:26 -0700
> From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Safety FAQ (Electrical Hazards)
>
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > >From webrand-at-dgs.dgsys-dot-comFri Jul 12 22:02:52 1996
> > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:23:24 -0400
> > From: Wallace Edward Brand <webrand-at-dgs.dgsys-dot-com>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: Safety FAQ (Electrical Hazards)
> >
> > At 10:25 PM 7/11/96 -0600, you wrote:
> > [snip] Remember, that the old Tesla coil wizard and
> > >author, Transtrom was killed doing just such a stunt. [snip]
> > >
> > >Richard Hull, TCBOR
> > >
> > Where can one learn more about "Transtrom"? Wallace Edward Brand
>
> Wallace,
>
> Transtrom was a very early Tesla experimenter/builder and wrote a book
> "High Frequency Apparatus", in the 20s I believe. Lindsay Publications
> reprinted it in the late 80s and early 90's. Catalog #20030.
>
> The information in it is old and out of date. He was a showman too. In
> his last performance, ever, he was attached to his coil (ala Wysock) and
> the curtain came down with a grounded lower bar and the arcs jumped to it
> from his body and killed him. That is the extent of my knowledge in the
> matter. I believe this was mentioned in the TCBA News in a past issue.
> To my knowledge he is the only death from Tesla coils in the literature.
>
> Lindsay pubs
> 1-815-935-5353
>
> Richard Hull, TCBOR
Richard -
Might his real name have been Thomas Stanley Curtis??? I have an
*original* copy of the 1920 "High Frequency Apparatus" text...
- Brent Turner
http://www.apc-dot-net/bturner/t-page2.htm