Re: Poulsen first light

["Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Those of you who might be interested in an arc-driven TC should take a
look at this:

	http://www.angelfire-dot-com/nc2/whitetho/1908poul.htm

Figure 3 shows the discharge at the top of what looks like a CW Tesla
Coil!  Date is June, 1908.  The discharge looks rather puny for a device
which had 1 kw input (to the arc, perhaps 400 watts to the coil if it
was getting all of the power), but perhaps the resonant coil wasn't
getting all of the power.  The actual power is quite vague, as you will
see if you read the text.  Anyhow, pretty interesting for so long ago,
and perhaps the photograph doesn't do credit to the actual discharge.

Ed