Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "John Richardson" <jprich-at-up-dot-net> 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain
Hi,

About two or three years ago, I saw Brent Turner give a super lecture on
Tesla, his inventions, and the Tesla coil.  This was at Michigan
Technological University in Houghton.  It doesn't get much more isolated
than this, so if he made it up here, maybe there is a demo coming near you.
He did the "lightning from the fingers" thing many times, but cautioned the
students on his level of experience and understanding of electricity, less
they try something stupid.  Seeing his lecture, along with finally getting
online, resurged my childhood interest in coiling.

John Richardson


 > At 02:31 AM 10/12/2003, you wrote:
 > >last night I was at a local amusement park and they had a halloween setup
 > >thing going there with a sort of a freak show with guys putting spiks
 > >through their arms and fire eating and the likes, but then they brought
 > >this girl in a bikini out put her on a table around 3 feet high where she
 > >sat then they dragged a ground cable around the table then wheeled out a
 > >Large Tesla coil and a pole pig. only chain mail she had on was gloves
and
 > >she proceeded to hold her hands up and shoot out 4 foot arcs.