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Re: Salt water caps, was earth resonance
Tesla List wrote:
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> > Subject: Salt water caps, was earth resonance
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> >From gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.milTue Sep 3 22:16:28 1996
> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 10:15:42 -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:
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> > >From richard.quick-at-slug-dot-orgMon Sep 2 22:06:21 1996
> > Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 19:09:32 GMT
> > From: Richard Quick <richard.quick-at-slug-dot-org>
> > To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Salt water caps, was earth resonance
> >
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