RE: Quarter Wavelength Frequency

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Original poster: "David Thomson" <dwt-at-volantis-dot-org> 

Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
On 5 Jul 2004, at 11:28, Tesla list wrote:

 > One of Tesla's desired goals was to eliminate capacitance from his
extra coil entirely and in the Notes, one can read of the many
schemes he dreamt up to try and achieve this. Eventually, he resigned
himself to the fact that nature was placing limits on his endeavours.
Had he been successful, he would have ended up without a resonator as
it would have had no dynamic energy storage mechanism.

Hi Malcolm,

Tesla was only trying to dispense with a physical capacitor, not
capacitance.  He developed his "coil for electromagnets" hoping to get the
coil to act as both inductor and capacitor.

Capacitors were not as electrically tight in Tesla's day and were cumbersome
to produce.  By eliminating the capacitor he would have made the coil, as
well as coil production, more efficient.  And we all know how much
efficiency meant to Tesla.

Dave