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Re: 100 meter sparks - 'Prodical Genius' book tells otherwi
From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 3:11 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 100 meter sparks - 'Prodical Genius' book tells otherwi
Hi all,
> From: Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 4:21 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: 100 meter sparks - 'Prodical Genius' book tells otherwise.
>
> On Tuesday, October 28, 1997 6:32 PM Rodney Davies
> [SMTP:rgd872-at-anu.edu.au] wrote;
>
> > I was reading through the Prodical Genius just now, in the section
> > relating to the "World System" and read this line -
> > The World System is based on the application of the following important
> > inventions and discoveries:
> >
> > 1. The Tesla Transformer. This apparatus is, in the production of
> > electrical vibrations, as revolutionary as gunpowder was in warfare.
> > Currents many times stronger than any ever generated in the usual ways,
> > and sparks over 100 feet long have been produced by the inventor with an
> > instrument of this kind.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas on what the instrument was, when and where?
> >
> > The section I read from the Prodical Genius is online at
> > http://www.brotherhoodoflife-dot-com/ProGenPart3.html
>
> Rod, sorry to burst your bubble but Richard Hull is right, NONE of Tesla's
> sparks ever exceeded 25 feet! As for John J. O'neal, the author of Prodigal
> Genius, again I am sorry to say but the one thing the guy is NOT noted for
> is sticking to reality. He was an occultist and tried on numerous occasions
> to fradulently use Tesla and Tesla's work to give credance to his ocult
> beliefs even when he had to stretch the truth to do so. I give O'neal
> credit for writing a book about Tesla but I can not respect him for
> twisting the truth about Tesla's work to further his own cause.
I too can confirm that and by Tesla's own hand no less. In the latter
part of CSN near the photos he talked about 50-odd feet *from a
streamer tip on one side of the coil to a streamer tip on the
opposite side*. He didn't mention the 8' of coil diameter in between.
He then speculated that if he unravelled all the twists and curls in
the sparks he might get around 100' but that doesn't count in the
point-to-point stakes.
Malcolm