RE: Drain Bamage - Re: Stop the nonsense

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for the info on this.  I "should" have all the patents here at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/OtherPapers/TeslaPatents/

I will check them out!

It is hard to say if mercury exposure could explain Tesla's reported
"oddness" in his later years.  It is an idea I have had for a long time but
I am no doctor and the remaining evidence is very slim to go by...

Cheers,

	Terry


At 12:23 AM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Terry,
>
>Tesla didn't build his equipment, his staff did.  Most likely his staff also
>operated the mercury interrupter as he would have been at the controls.
>Tesla has 8 patents for the liquid spark gaps.  Mercury is one fluid that
>could be used.  Some of the designs used just oil.  The purpose of the
>liquid spark gap was to impart as near a perfect quench on the gap as could
>possibly be attained.  As you know, much of the loss occurs through the gap
>and Tesla was also aware of this.
>
>These units work in several different configurations.  One configuration is
>to have both mercury and oil in a drum, and then rotate the drum causing the
>fluids to separate and remain next to the drum's inner surface.  A star like
>wheel then turns such that it alternately comes in contact with the mercury
>and then not, causing the circuit to gap.  The oil prevents any air from
>interfering with the gap.  This is not the only method he used.  More
>details are available in his patents.
>
>US Patent 609,245 12/2/1897Electrical Circuit Controller
>A spark gap utilizing a fluid stream or jet to make and break contact.
>
>US Patent 609,246  2/28/1898 Electric Circuit Controller
>A spark gap utilizing a rotating disc and a fluid stream.
>
>US Patent 609,247 3/12/1898 Electric Circuit Controller
>Another fluid spark gap.
>
>US Patent 609,248 3/12/1898 Electric Circuit Controller
>Another method of breaking a gap utilizing a fluid and moving insulator.
>
>US Patent 609,249 3/12/1898 Electric Circuit Controller
>Yet another method of breaking a gap using a fluid.
>
>US Patent 609,251 6/3/1897 Electric Circuit Controller
>Another fluid spark gap utilizing a rotating drum to separate fluids of
>different conductivity.
>
>US Patent 611,719 12/10/1897 Electrical Circuit Controller
>A spark gap consisting of a fluid and compressed inert air.
>
>US Patent 613,735 4/19/1898 Electric Circuit Controller
>A spark gap with a solid gap rotating opposite the direction of a rotating
>fluid.
>
>
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:59 PM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Drain Bamage - Re: Stop the nonsense
>
>
>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
>To follow up...
>
>This is Tesla's 50 horsepower 100,000 BPS mercury interrupter at
>Wardenclyffe.
>
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/inter.jpg
>
>I don't think OSHA would approve :-((
>
>Like what do you do?  Pour a fifty gallon drum of mercury into it, spin it
>up to speed, and start arcing 37000 watts in it...
>
>I don't know the internal working of this thing but it looks like a mercury
>vapor nightmare...  Or maybe a "happy
> dream" after you have been near it too long...
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Terry
>
>
>------------------------------
>Hi,
>
>I have always wondered if Dr. Tesla suffered from mercury poisoning
>(erethism) in his latter years?  He used a LOT of mercury interrupters...
>The museum in Belgrade has a lock of his hair that "could" still be tested
>for mercury...  Always a thought I have had...
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Terry
>
>
>At 10:10 PM 2/13/2002 -0300, you wrote:
>snip...
>>
>>This at a time when he (Tesla) was becoming a bit more strange than he
>ever was.
>>Tesla did a lot of solid and sound work in the early part of his long
>>career, including fundamental contributions for the development of the
>>electricity generation, distribution, and use, systems that are still
>>used. When he started with these "wireless energy transmission" ideas,
>>the subject was still obscure, and it was not yet clear what
>>was right and what was wrong. His contributions for the development of
>>radio that come from his attempts of transmission of -signals- were
>>fundamental, but many other things proved to be nonsense.
>>Can happen to anyone.
>>
>>Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>>
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