Re: How to build a Tesla Tower

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

Hi,

One may want to see the electrostatic field motors of Oleg D. Jefimenko in 
the october 1974 issue of  "Scientific American", "Electrostatic Motors Are 
Powered By Electric Field of the Earth".

A web search on "electrostatic motors" or "Oleg D. Jefimenko" will bring up 
much.  Dr. Jefimenko is very well known.  He has a book on the subject but 
it may be hard to find:

http://www.amazon-dot-com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0917406028?vi=glance

http://www.allbookstores-dot-com/book/091740601X

Banjamin Franklin also made electrostatic motors

http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Static_Electricity/Electric_Carousel/Electric_Carousel.html

BTW - Electrostatic antennas high in the air can be super dangerous even in 
clear weather!!

Cheers,

         Terry

BTW - I have not heard back on the 'high voltage' list activities.  This 
would obvioulsy be better suited to that list.






At 09:43 AM 6/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I think this is what you are referring to.
>http://homepage.a5-dot-com/~canska/tesla/patents/us000685957.pdf
>http://homepage.a5-dot-com/~canska/tesla/patents/us000685958.pdf
>
>Tesla describes his concept rather clearly, albeit using the terminology of
>his time, which can be confusing. As I read the patents, its an
>electrostatic charging system, using an insulated elevated plate which
>becomes charged as it is bombarded with ions. I've never heard of anyone
>experimenting with this in recent time, but it seems logical that it would
>work. Given that the charging current to the condenser is very low, it seems
>that it would be difficult to test/prove how well this works since we have
>much more interference than Tesla did in his day. It would be hard to rule
>out that your elevated conductor is not getting power from a man made source
>rather than the sun's "radiant energy". At the least it would require a very
>remote testing site.
>
>Rob Judd - canska-at-a5-dot-com
>http://homepage.a5-dot-com/~canska/tesla
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:36 AM
>Subject: Re: How to build a Tesla Tower
>
>
> > Original poster: "Christoph Bohr by way of Terry Fritz
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>
> >
> > I think what you refere to is another thing than as tesla coil but  one of
> > teslas inventions as well.
> > I once saw a drawing by tesla which showed a large plate of metal mouted
> > high above ground, a wire that connects this plate to ground through a
> > condenser. This drawing was very "low detail" as tesla dind't want anyone
>to
> > know how it works after several of his inventions were stolen by others. I
> > believe it had something to do with the field surrounding the earth, not
> > necessarily the use of  a tesla coil for that effect. He stated that one
> > could simply draw energy from this field on any place of the earth.
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> >