Re: Tesla Video...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

I think amazone-dot-com (search for "tesla") will ship anywhere in the world
and the price is real good.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:22 AM 12/19/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>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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>
>> 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
>>
>>
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