Re: Streamer records

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

Hi Malcolm,

At 08:59 AM 11/5/2002 +1300, you wrote:


>I think you can be reasonably well assured that they have. Tesla's
>own words in the CSN show that his point to point discharges were
>about 30' or so. He did speculate that if the curls in the sparks
>were unravelled, one might measure 150' if one measured from the tip
>of a spark on one side of the coil to the tip of a spark on the
>opposite side (which is a far cry from a point-to-point discharge).
>O'Neill obviously didn't read the Notes carefully enough when writing
>his biography. A more searching analysis of this claim was made by
>Richard Hull in his excellent "Guide To The Colorado Springs Notes".
>One cannot escape the limitations of the dimensions of the room in
>which the magnifying transmitter was housed. It is ironic that it has
>been others who have made these grandiose claims and not Tesla
>himself.
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm

I should note that O'Neil published "Prodigal Genius" in 1944.  34 years 
before the Colorado Springs Notes were made available ;-)  A number of the 
older books worked off magazine and other "embellished" sources or 
information.  Little technical or engineering detail was available so they 
just wrote what everyone told them.  Only recently do we have the knowledge 
to go back and piece together the real facts.  Don't be surprised if some 
pretty popular Tesla books have inaccurate technical information in 
them.  The authors just didn't know...

Cheers,

         Terry