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Re: Tesla...my 2 cents....
Excellent post Steve! These are my feelings also! Can you just imagine
Tesla, right here, right now, with all the instruments, materials and
yes, computers that we have easy access to?! Imagine what he would
accomplish! It is good that the members of this list walk in his
footsteps and appreciate what he has done for mankind. AL.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:30:52 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "Steve Rosenthal" <sdrosen-at-cwia-dot-com>
>
> Personally.... I put Dr. Tesla on par with Socrates, Mozart, Newton,
> Galileo, da Vinci, etc. A singular visionary genius. Vision is
> something
> that is rare. I am talking genius grade vision. I don't know if we
> have
> anyone like that alive today. We have mostly corporations who do the
> "inventing" today, ala Edison. In Tesla's time, he hung with the
> heavy
> weights, who do we have today to compare with the group he
> associated with,
> but he was bored and disillusioned and I really think he lived his
> life the
> way he did because he was so far beyond everyone else. There are
> groups of
> similar individuals who seem to appear throughout history. Florence
> in the
> Renaissance, America in the revolution, and the time period in which
> Tesla
> lived was like that and he was "IN with IN crowd". We all relate to
> Colorado
> Springs and what he did there, but what would have happened if he
> had
> completed Wardencliff? I am sure he could have achieved his
> objectives
> relating to tapping into an energy source which, since we cannot
> seem to tap
> it, must relegate to myth. So here we are haggling about Tesla coil
> theory.
> Can any of you imagine what having this same discussion with Dr.
> Tesla would
> be like? We pour over his limited writings looking for clues, how
> much did
> he not write down, (how about those papers the FBI confiscated on
> the event
> of his death... if you choose to believe those stories...I
> do...having
> worked with the government) how many more ideas? We don't really
> seem to be
> able, even now, to move past alternating current, nobody has come up
> with
> anything better, do all of you think that is because it is the
> ultimate.
> Tesla knew about solid state devices, he demonstrated understanding
> of them
> in his time, even though he never saw a transistor or a diode. Sure
> there
> are those who can do extremely complicated calculations, but they
> operate
> only from knowledge they received, how much have they really moved
> beyond
> that knowledge into uncharted territory. Most are afraid to go there
> and
> take the chance of being ousted from their eliteist college educated
> cliques. What would Tesla do with today's technology? All we're out
> for is
> longer sparks, do you really think making longer sparks was what
> Tesla was
> after, do you think he moved beyond that? He talked like he did, he
> talked
> and wrote like he had thoughts beyond even what we have with today's
> technology. How smug we are with our technology. He would be as far
> ahead of
> us now as he was ahead of his peers in his day. He would take all
> the
> technology we have today and expand on it 50 to 100 years into the
> future..... just like he did in his time. Look...I like long sparks
> too, but
> the main reason I build Tesla coils is because it is after all
> "Tesla's
> coil". Funny how we still have the Tesla Coil, the Tesla turbine,
> what about
> the Tesla Transformer, the Tesla Radio, the Tesla Capacitor, the
> Tesla
> electric motor, and all the other Tesla inventions which have
> dropped the
> "Tesla"? Did you see that site where the school kids are selling
> t-shirts to
> buy a bust of Tesla to put in the hall of inventors at the
> Smithsonian and
> another at MIT? Overdue recognition. But no matter, I'll get off my
> soapbox
> now, that's just what I think, in my own very humble
> opinion.........you
> think whatever you want.
> Steve R.
>
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Magnifiers vs. normal TC's, was secondary wavelength
>
>
> > Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi Luc. The fact is, is that Tesla is still the Man! I am not
> > downplaying the efforts of John, Antonio, Terry, Jim, Malcolm,
> Ross or
> > anyone else on the list. I am simply stating that there is not a
> one of
> > us on this list, myself included, that have yet to acheive what
> Tesla did
> > 100 years ago. And that includes spark length and power output
> and
> > efficiency of the magnifying coil. It is easy to sit down at a pc
> and
> > play with figures that someone worked with 100 years ago and
> improve upon
> > his work. But take away your pc's and what have you got? PC's
> are
> > nothing but brute force stupid instruments, and any programmer
> will admit
> > this. When you guys with all your pc's build a working Colorado
> Springs
> > or Wardenclyff model that works better than what Tesla did. I
> will
> > humbly accept what you say. But until then, the empirical work of
> Tesla
> > has yet to be beat! Keep on coiling! AL.
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:27:30 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > writes:
> > > Original poster: "Luc" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>
> > >
> > > Hi Albert
> > >
> > > You could believe in a great man or you could believe in the
> fact ,
> > > fact
> > > that was verified by experimentation and measurement. Personally
> I
> > > prefer
> > > fact and I have a lot of respect for good experimental like John
> > > Freau,
> > > Antonio, Terry, Kennan, Jim Lux, Malcoml, Ross, and many other
> on
> > > this
> > > list .
> > >
> > > Luc Benard
> > >
> > > Tesla list wrote:
> > >
> > > > Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> > > >
> > > > Hi John. HUH, Did I just hear you say that Tesla, despite
> his
> > > genius,
> > > > didn't know that much? You must be joking! Tesla was light
> years
> > > ahead
> > > > of us! He's the Man! He took more to the grave with him than
> all
> > > the
> > > > members of this list have ever known! Surely you jest! Al.
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:57:15 -0600 "Tesla list"
> <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > > > writes:
> > > > > Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
> > > > >
> > > > > In a message dated 9/27/00 5:50:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > > > tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > > > > writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > > That is where the REAL energy and output is. Even
> > > > > > Tesla noted that the two coil system that most of us are
> > > familiar
> > > > > with
> > > > > > was very inefficient. I want to hear from Tertiary
> builders!
> > > > >
> > > > > Al,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've never seen any evidence of greater energy, output, or
> > > > > efficiency
> > > > > using magnifiers with tertiary coils in my work. This was
> > > > > determined
> > > > > by making careful comparisons of two coil and three coil
> > > systems.
> > > > > I don't know of anyone else who has made such direct
> > > comparisons.
> > > > > Compared to what is known about Tesla coils today, Tesla
> despite
> > > > > his genius, didn't know that much.
> > > > >
> > > > > John Freau
> > > > >
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