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Re: Newbie's Coil
Tesla List wrote:
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> Subscriber: ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu Tue Feb 11 23:20:32 1997
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:37:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Newbie's Coil
>
> Re: "I was inspired by two books that must be long out of print, by an American
> scientist by the name of A(Archie?) Collins, who was, I believe, a pioneer
> of wireless telephony. They were: "Electricity For Boys" and "Fun With
> Electricity." They are listed as "missing" in the British Museum."
> Full name was Frederick Archie Collins and he did do pioneer
> work on wireless telegraphy, and he was a prolific writer up until at
> least the 1940's, as I recall. Also, I think, he did time in prison
> for stock swindles related to some of his wireless activities. Maybe
> someone can correct that last statement. Anyhow, his writings were
> quite sound and stuff build for them did work.
> Don't think a VDG of any reasonable size puts out enough
> current to be useful for TC work. Currents of 1 ma go with pretty
> darn big machines, totally out of reason for this application.
> Ed Phillips
Ed and all,
A book that inspired me when I was a kid (a LONNGGG time ago...) was
"Boy Electrician" by Alfred Morgan. This title is available through
Lindsay's, and has "how-to" instructions for building motors, induction
coils, a Tesla Coil, etc, It's written in a manner that kids can
understand, and is a great read, even now!
-- Bert --