Re: longitudinal waves

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 3/6/02 11:40:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:



>
>   This is no doubt the reason Tesla was
> building his Wardencliffe system with flat spiral coils.  This also explains
> why Tesla was able to get huge sparks from his Colorado Springs experiments.
> Tesla must have fully understood these two components to a pulse quite well.



Perhaps someone could explain then, why Tesla's own illustration and text for
the Wardencliffe System (pat.no.1119732) shows  a system of three HELICAL 
coils, a primary, secondary, and "induction coil" att ached to the toroidal top
by a "steel pipe"? No flat spiral coils are in evidence.

Matt D.