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Re: Salt water caps, was earth resonance
Tesla List wrote:
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> >From gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.milThu Sep 5 21:52:22 1996
> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 09:04:04 -0500
> From: Dan Gowin <gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Salt water caps, was earth resonance
>
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > Big Snip
> >
> > > >
> > > > Tesla did not use salt-water/glass capacitors because he was
> > > > pleased with the performance. He used them because they were
> > > > cheap and available. Do you honestly think that Tesla was not
> > > > "new age" in his era?
> > > >
> > > > Do you honestly think that Tesla would not have used the highest
> > > > Q, lowest loss capacitor that he could afford?
> > > >
> > > > No, the genius of the man was the fact that he was able to obtain
> > > > the results he got with the materials he had at hand.
> > > >
> > > > Richard Quick
> > >
> > > Richard,
> > > I agree with you. Its pretty clear in the history books that
> > > Tesla in his Colorado shop had a hard time finding components for
> > > his projects. More than once he would have to travel to N.Y. and
> > > have equipement shipped to Colorado.
> > >
> > > D. Gowin
> >
> > D.,
> >
> > Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs in May of 1899 and did not return to NY
> > until the conclusion of his work there 7 months later in January, 1900.
> >
> > What he needed to be sent to his lab in Colorado from NY was ordered via
> > cable or normal mail in messages to his secretary George Scherff. All
> > equipment was sent out by normal railway freight as needed. (3-4 day
> > delay). Tesla was frugal and only used railway express (2 day) on a
> > couple of occassions. Normal trains actually traveled faster 100 years
> > ago than they do today!
> >
> > Richard Hull, TCBOR
>
> Richard,
> I stand corrected. After a trip to my local library, I've
> decided that you are correct. But, I'm still irritated though.
> Several of the Tesla books I bought from the ITS Bookstore have
> conflicting dates.
>
> Maybe I should keep my mouth shut.
> D. Gowin
The Tesla bookstore at the ITS carrys a lot of titles. Most are written
by idiots and contain absolute drivle! Given any sampling of Teslarian
literature, regardless of source, about 80% of it will be garbage,
10% will be just plain wrong on most topics and 5% will contain a
number of mistakes. The remaining 5% is readable and some of it is
quite good. Some good authors which I recommend are Duane Bylund,
Leland Anderson, Gary Peterson, George Trinkus, R.A. Ford, and very
few others for technical stuff. Needless to say get all of Nikola's
stuff. You don't get more horse's mouth than that.
Tesla's story has been so mutilated by "hack" authors, that a straight
story is a rarity.
Richard Hull, TCBOR