Re: Then I guess this doesn't count either....*

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

We await (and have been awaiting) the Corum's replication of Tesla's 
earth power transmissions schemes with bated breath for some time. I 
wonder how long we will have to hold our breath for?

     The 128' spark length you mention in another post was actually 
Tesla saying not only if he unravelled the sparks, but also the 
length from those issuing from one side of the coil to the end of 
those issuing from the other side. The sparks issuing from each side 
of the coil are not simultaneous and I don't think anyone on this 
list would like to claim such a figure for their own coils. I further 
think it is generally accepted that an "honest" measure of 
sparklength is a point-point one, not unravelling knots and curls in 
the mind's eye.
      
      None of this is in any way meant to demean Tesla's considerable 
achievements; merely to place them in context. It is not an easy 
matter to generate sparks 100' long by any accepted standard as there 
is a power law at work. A few on the list have, dare I say it, 
exceeded Tesla's documented results, albeit with the aid of modern 
materials and considerably more power.
 
Regards,
Malcolm

On 9 Feb 01, at 7:25, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> 
> Hi Steve, list members.   Yep, you are 100% correct.  The Wardenclyffe
> Tesla coil was absolutely the greatest ever created by private
> enterprise and by the Master Teslas very own hands.  None of us list
> members has ever dared, let alone tried to build a Tesla coil on such
> a grand scale as Wardenclyffe.  Time is now for all the professionals
> on this list to begin digging deep into the earth to lay the
> "groundwork" to humbly attempt to reproduce what Tesla had known all
> along would be possible. You engineers, stop the petty bickering, quit
> saying it is not possible and combine your knowledge and know how and
> get together and create a real energy transmission device, open your
> minds, forget your rigid training and look for the new way.  If I had
> an engineers background, then I would surely set forth to get backing
> and create a new power system to benefit the people of earth. But as
> it is now, I can only produce Tesla apparatus on a hit and miss basis,
> and believe me, I may miss some, but the grand feeling of a power
> transmission scheme using the Tesla coils in my own small shop shows
> that Tesla did indeed know what he was saying.   AL. On Mon, 05 Feb

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