Re: GE HV Research

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I'll check around.. I found this picture in a box with a
ton of others when I moved into this house.. alot of them
were pictures of crane construction sites.. I have the
negatives for most of them, but unfortunately not this
one.. :-/

Coiling In Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>
> 
> Ben,
> I'm not completely certain, but this looks like the
> display that GE did 
> at the 1939 NY World's Fair.  I've seen B&W movies of it,
> only very 
> short clips, but they had both Marx type generators and
> continuous 60hz 
> discharges to a set of rotating discs.  My mother dimly
> recalled the 
> demo, and said that the finale was a 20' horizontal
> discharge from a 
> Marx generator with an instantaneous lightning-like
> discharge.  I'd love 
> to find the whole film that GE made of the exhibit.
> 
> Let us know if you find any more info about this display.
> 
> Thanks for sharing,
> Dave
> G2-1170
> 
> Tesla list wrote:
> 
> >Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> >Hi all,
> >  While digging around in the basement the other day I
> >happened on an old photograph of what appears to be the
> old
> >GE HV testing facility.. 
> >
> >This is the picture:
> >
> >www.hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/GE.jpg
> >
> >  
> >
>