RE: Tesla history project

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Original poster: "Ralph Zekelman" <gridleak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Steven,

Just on a wild hunch, I entered Wardencliff (also: Wardenclyffe or
Wardencliffe)
into the browser. Didn't even need google and didn't mention Tesla. Urge
you try it.
Urge you learn how to do a little disciplined study.

Ralph Zekelman

Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

What's a Wardencliff type tower?
                                                    Steven Steele
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: Tesla history project


>Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Hi Dave,
>
>In his patents, he shows a Wardencliff type tower with a large toroid
>instead of a mushroom.
>
>David E Weiss
>
>>Original poster: <dgoodfellow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>I don't think I have ever seen a picture of one of Tesla's own coils
with
>>a toroid on the top of it. I do remember something like a toroid in a
>>photo from Colorado Springs, but the only really large topload that I
>>have seen (in what books I have) is the Wardenclyffe tower. Could you
>>please indicate where to look for  toroids use by Tesla?
>>
>>Thanks, Dave Goodfellow
>>
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:14 PM
>>Subject: Re: Tesla history project
>>
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>>>Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>The first large coil in the USA was built by George Kauffman in 1903
for the
>>>Carnigie Institute (college).  It ran at 10 kVA with rotary spark gap
and
>>>plate glass capacitors.  It is still at the Buhl Museum/Planetarium
in
>>>Pittsburg, PA.  Kauffman's father worked in New York digging ditches
with N.
>>>Tesla when Tesla was going through some hard times.
>>>
>>>In 1930 a coil was erected at the Griffith Observatory in Los
Angeles.
>>>
>>>In the mid-1940's a German group was one of the first (after Tesla)
to use a
>>>large toroid atop the secondary coil for electrostatic field control.
This
>>>also forces the coil to run efficiently at a single sec freq and not
develop
>>>standing wave interference from multiple frequencies.
>>>
>>>Dr. Resonance
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I am doing a project in history on the history of Tesla coiling.
>>> I > > would
>>>be
>>> > gratefull to anyone who sends me, personally, information on the >
>
>>> history
>>>if
>>> > Tesla coils since 1900 to the present.
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >                                                             Steven
> >
>>>Steele
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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