Re: 1959 Electricity for Boys article

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• Subject: Re: 1959 Electricity for Boys article
• From: Sebrf-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:56:31 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

>Sorry if this is a repetition, but I've been off the list for a little
>while..... Anyway, I found a cool website with "Kitchen Experiments" for
>kids, amongst which was a Tesla Coil (?!). Its from a 1959 article in
>"Electricity for Boys" (US). Check it out.

>http://freeweb.pdq-dot-net/headstrong/ind2.htm

What a coincidence. That was the setup my son and I tried to build. ( see
hello from a newby ) I still don't see how it could work without a heafty D.
C. power supply ( car battery) and some kind of breaker point system to get
the ignition coil to output enough to greate a potential to arc across a gap.

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