Re: Tesla Video...

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Original poster: "Dr. Steinkamp by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <steinkamp-at-iee.uni-hannover.de>

Hi Terry,

I'm sitting in good old germany and reading all the messages flying in.

Can yu please give me an adress (e-mail or www) where I can order the tape?

best regards

stone
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 06:05
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> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I got my Tesla Master of lightening tape today.  It was actually quite
> good.  Sort of fast paced and flashy to keep the attention of kids and
> such.  Most of the facts were pretty good but they did repeat the 100's of
> foot arcs and some of the other more disputed (IMHO) claims about the
> Colorado Springs experiments. But nothing too terrible.  Margaret Cheny
and
> Leyland Anderson were in it and much or the work from their books was in
it
> (including some of their "views" which "I" would question)...  Lots of
nice
> pictures and information in it.  They told much of his life in sort of a
> biographical format as accurately as is known.
>
> They got into the Tesla vs. Edison thing pretty heavily but it was well
> presented.  They went over many of the world's fair stuff which was pretty
> interesting.  They showed the electrocuted elephant clip of Edison's which
> personally didn't phase the leather skinned Tesla list moderator, but some
> may not like that stuff.
>
> The last 15 minutes was kind of a mess as they got into death rays, FBI,
> star wars, and all that.  Lots of talk but no facts.  Only a few odd
> government clips of official looking people blowing fuses or something.
> "I" would have left that last 15 minutes on the cutting room floor or cut
> in for a PBS pledge break ;-))  It just didn't have any substance.  If
your
> missing the game, go ahead and change the channel at this point ;-))
>
> Lots and lots of great clips and information in it.  There were a few
Tesla
> coils but nothing too deep there.  The many many pictures and clips were
> very interesting and worthy of very close study.
>
> The book is also very good.  Many familiar pictures in very high detail!
> You can almost see the banjo affect in some of the high res pictures.
>
> So it is a must see or read if you like Tesla'a history.  You can't build
a
> coil from it or barely even know what a Tesla coil is from this video, but
> it will be shown for decades to come.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>