RE: Stop the nonsense

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Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>

Hi Randy,

>I must confess to having not read Tesla's own writings, yet. What
"peer-reviewed" journal did he submit to? What peers did he have? (any
references to Marconi, or Hertz' works will be summarily ignored..however
"unscientific" that may be...)

Tesla was vice president of IEEE at one point.  His peers were Lord Kelvin,
JJ Thomson, and others.  But most of Tesla's work was so unique, such as his
AC induction motors, that he had no peers.  Tesla finally had to start his
own company to get his motors built as nobody would believe they would work
or that they could perform any useful service.  Even after the motor was
demonstrated it took quite an effort to show how it could be put to work.

Tesla's articles were often published in Century Magazine, Electrical
Review, Electrical World and the Electrical Experimenter.  Tesla also
commissioned a book called Inventions, Researches and Writings based on his
lectures, which was published in 1894.  Tesla also submitted his works to
the US, British and Canadian patent offices.

I find it rather odd that this list is about Tesla coils and many of the
subscribers haven't even read Tesla's literature.  As a result, most people
on this list believe Tesla experimented mostly with solenoid coils.  This is
far from the truth.  Tesla worked most of his time with conical and spiral
secondaries.  He did this in his thirties and forties.  After Wardencliffe,
Tesla branched out into resonance with fluids.  I hear the uninformed on
this list talk about Tesla as though he had lost his senses after
Wardencliffe.  In fact, that is when he invented the frequency meter, fluid
meter, auto ignition system, fluid turbine, and VTOL aircraft among others.
After Wardencliffe, Tesla also worked more with electrostatics on a small
scale as well as longitudinal waves.

It is amusing to hear some guys boasting how loopy Tesla must have been.  To
someone who has read all of Tesla's available literature and studied all of
his patents, such opinions appear to be of fearful stuffed shirts more
concerned about job security than science.  Even when there are claims of
successful or provocative experiments, the stuffed shirts just blow it off
like it was a plague instead of searching for the truth.

I'll tell you stuffed shirts what I will do.  I don't desire to disrupt this
otherwise successful and prolific mailing list.  I'll take this discussion
of spiral secondaries to my own list and not post here on this topic
anymore.  That should return calm.

The spiral coils list is at... http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/spiralcoils/

Dave