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: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
> 
> >>Hi, well i saw someone ask about cutting fine wire for ingredients in a
> >>coherer..they were shaved like a sample using a machine like a specimen
> >>shaver only the blade was made of carbide and the wire was fed thru a
> >>carbide block with many holes for the wire to pass thru.
> 
> > Where did you read that?  Sounds like mighty "high tech" for Tesla's
> > time, so wonder if someone was playing with coherers much later than
> > that.
> 
>         IIR, ca 1980, or thereabouts, some research went into
>         studying lightning with coherers: cheap detectors that
>         could be used to instrument Miles of line.  In the UK.
>         I've no proper reference tho, but think it accurate.
> 
>         No way of knowing if this matches the first para.
> 
>         best
>         dwp

	Interesting again.  If you ever come across the reference again how
about emailing it to me diret?

Ed