Re: Tesla Museum - Belgrade - Get those missing papers!!!

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

Hi Nele,

Tesla envisioned using a stream of high pressure mercury to direct powerful 
arc from a Tesla coil (or Van-de-Graaff machine) toward an enemy 
target.  He proposed this to many during WWII as a weapon.  The Belgrade 
museum should have more information on this than anywhere else.  Tesla 
proposed the idea to many people and governments but none felt is was 
practical in wartime.  Tesla was not a great weapons designer and lacked 
the "real" battlefield view to design weapons that would actually be useful 
in war.  The system he proposed was far too vulnerable and difficult to 
defend and would not have worked against tanks.  It also required very 
vulnerable power systems to run.  I think the Corums studied and reproduced 
a small scale version of this system.  Of course, the heavy machine gun was 
the weapon of choice for such uses.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/DeathBeam.jpg

Apparently, the United States government does not have any old records of 
Tesla's but chose to just make copies.  The original records were later 
release to is nephew and are now at the museum.  Anyone can now read the 
details from a colorful time in history and these are probably the only 
"secret" records left:

http://foia.fbi.gov/tesla.htm

The patent office, of course, has the patent records.  It is very possible 
that if Tesla filed any weapons patents they would have been "national 
security classified'' and kept secret especially in the war years.  I am 
not sure anyone has done an FOIA request to dig up anything there.  These 
are probably bad times to request national security FOIA files...

A few private individuals will have a few odds and ends too, but probably 
nothing of great significance.

Many of Tesla's records were lost at Wardenclyffe.

There are a lot of "conspiracy theories" too since that stuff is attracted 
to these things, but the "facts" are pretty well known.

Cheers,

         Terry

At 06:15 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, you wrote:
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>Hello Gregory
>
>No, that`s not what I ment - this is a nozzle - a sort of tube he had
>directed his streamers through. It was a puzzle, for this is not regular
>part of his equipment, nor any other electronic. So the first question was
>what did he used this part for?? It took some time to figure this out...
>
>Regards,
>Nele
>
>         -Nikola Tesla Muzej Beograd Jugoslavija-
>www.tesla-museum-dot-org   e-mail:  ntmuseum-at-eunet.yu
>
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>Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 3:14 AM
>Subject: Re: Tesla Museum - Belgrade - Get those missing papers!!!
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> > Original poster: "G by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><bog-at-cinci.rr-dot-com>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not sure about this, but Tesla's 'carbon button' lamp produced strong
> > X-rays. This may be what he was referring to?
> >
> > goodbye.
> > Gregory