Re: R. Hull & Nat. Geographic.

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: R. Hull & Nat. Geographic.
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:22:29 -0700
Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From rodney-at-johnxt7.anu.edu.auMon Jun 10 20:27:11 1996
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:27:05 +1000 (EST)
> From: Rodney Davies <rodney-at-johnxt7.anu.edu.au>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: R. Hull & Nat. Geographic.
> 
> Hi All, (in particular Richard Hull)
> 
> I was just recently going through some of my old National Geographic
> archives and distinctly remembered a date that always stuck in my head -
> July 1993....now why was that?
> Yup! The month & year TCBOR made it to the magazine on their 'Lightning'
> issue.
> 
> My question to Richard is - who are the 3 guys sitting next to you (mind
> you, all in front of 'Nemesis')
> 
> If anyone hasn't yet seen the article, I'd strongly recommend it!
> Excellent photography (even of one of Bill Wysock sitting ontop of a
> conductor connected to a 1.5MV coil), and a great article all in all.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rodney
> 
> -- "Who are the Federal Communications Commission and why do they
>     want my Tesla Coil?"
> 
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Rodney,

That is an old one of "Nemesis" in action.  The bearded guy (looks like 
wolfman), extreme left, is Dave Sharpe a fellow electronics engineer and 
one of our most talented members.  The other two are "joiners" and are 
not what I would call real coilers.  They no longer attend our monthly 
meetings.  They were , of course, "Johnny on the spot" for publicity 
hounding.  The two guys in the shadows are the real coilers.

We have also appeared on the BBC show "Short Circuit" in 1994. and this 
month we were filmed for an upcoming show, "Future Fantastic" to air on 
the BBC on August 9th of this year.  Finally, on June 23rd the USA 
Discovery channel will be filming for part of a six hour documentary 
series they are doing for next year.

I wish these folks would come and go, as it is crampin' our style for 
experiments in the lab!  Still, the publicity for Tesla and his coil are 
important to keep the public awareness high.  I have found that the hype 
drives the media (not so much the BBC though. They are good eggs).

Richard Hull, TCBOR