Re: coherers

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Gary Peterson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <glpeterson-at-tfcbooks-dot-com>
> 
> > Where did you read that correspondence?  Any mention of how they
> > chopped up that wire?  How about relative performance of the various
> > materials?  As for bismuth, I have some very fine powder I've been
> > intending to try.
> >
> > Ed
> 
> The typescripts of the letters are in the book "Dr. Nikola Tesla: I. English
> / Serbo-Croatian Diary Comparisons, II. Serbo-Croatian Diary Commentary,
> III. Tesla / Scherff Colorado Springs Correspondence" by John T. Ratzlaff &
> Fred A. Jost.  No performance data are provided in the letters.  You are
> probably aware that the COLORADO SPRINGS NOTES 1899-1900 contains some
> information on Tesla's coherers.
> 
> Gary

	CSN doesn't have enough to be satisfying.  Don't have Ratzlaff's book
and will look for it.

Ed