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Re: Wireless Energy Transmission
In a message dated 5/21/99 11:21:08 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> Just a small note that I figured I would add. On a previous post I
followed
> > a link to Tesla Coil sites (from a search engine I believe) and that
> brought
> > me to an archive of Tesla pictures. As a caption to the picture, it said
> > that Tesla's largest coil put such high voltages into the ground that a
1"
> > spark could be drawn from a drain pipe 300 miles away. If that was
indeed
> > true, then perhaps this idea would be feasible. Although I have not
taken
> a
> > physics course yet in school, making my knowledge greatly lacking, I
> thought
> > that I might add that promising point.
> >
> > -Andy
>
Who in 1899 or 1900 could have been 300 miles away and known when Tesla was
firing his coil? I rather think that this effect was noticed 3 miles away,
in Colorado Springs. That would still be impressive to be able to draw a one
inch arc from a grounded water pipe with nothing but a rod of metal in hand
from that distance. There are reports of him being able to light bulbs as
far away as Cripple Creek (26 miles away), but I don't think those reports
were substantiated. It seems like I remember reading in Tesla's Colorado
Springs notes that he could see light bulbs light up on Pike's Peak when he
fired up his coil, but I read the notes years ago and could be mistaken in
that.
Mike