Re: electrical units

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


Steinmetz championed using Marx impulse generators for testing transformers
and insulators in the 1930's and 40's.  The photograph you are referring to
is a large impulse generator he built for G.E.

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corporation
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 >
 > I wonder if Charles Proteus Steinmetz ever worked with tesla coils.
 > I recall seeing a picture of him standing beside an artificial
 > lightning generator in his lab. The generator consisted of a
 > big tank transformer, with shielded tube rectifiers on top. The
 > capacitor bank was a very long glass stacked outfit. So he
 > was doing something with high voltage.
 >
 > Godfrey Loudner
 >
 >  >1895 +/- units like the ohm, watt, volt, henry, and ampere were named
 >  >for famous scientists of earlier times.
 >
 >  >Ed
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