Re: 7.1Hz, how the heck did Tesla succeed?

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >But this brings up a big issue.  If Tesla accomplished it, HOW DID HE DO
> >IT?
>
> He didn't.


Lol!  Logical fallacy.  When evidence is lacking, unproven claims remain
unproven, not disproven.  Without evidence, we can make no decision for or
against a claim.  Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

This issue is a big one in the war between "scoffers" and "believers."
Proper skeptics say "I won't accept your claim unless you provide
evidence."  If there is no evidence, then we can ignore the assertions and
just go on as usual.  But Pseudo-skeptics go farther and say "if there's
no evidence, then your claim is disproved."



>
> There is no evidence that he ever got the earth to resonate using his
> equipment.

Agreed, no hard evidence.  He was an inventor, not a physicist who
constantly published papers in academic journals.  We only know what he
claimed, and what's in his notes.  Claims made by experts are not "proof,"
but they're not totally wothless either. Also, were Tesla's notes
complete?  And did he always perform experiments and write down the
results, and are all of his notebooks preserved?  If so, then you're
right, and he never demonstrated those rumored power-broadcasts over tens
of kilometers.


> He just used a receiver to measure propagation of impulses from
> lightning strikes, the same way as we measure the Schumann resonance today.

You're making a claim.  Do you have evidence to back it up?  In order to
prove your assertion, you'd need to show that Tesla never performed
successful small scale power-broadcast experiments; that Tesla jumped
right in to building the Wardenclyffe tower without having tested whether
the idea was feasible.


> I have read most of what Tesla wrote on wireless power transmission and
> it's still a mystery to me how he thought he was going to do it.

I suspect that either we have an incomplete record of what he did, or
perhaps much of his work was not set down on paper at all.  People with
photographic memories will only keep notebooks for posterity, not for
their own use.



> In Craggs and Meek's "High Voltage Laboratory Technique" there are
> descriptions of a few different kinds of X-ray machines driven by Tesla
> coils and using the tube itself to rectify the output.

Cool!

But I was talking about the effect of x-rays on a Tesla coil's corona or
plasma fingers.  The device you describe sounds like a closed circuit, not
the single-terminal Tesla stuff where the air-discharge supplies the rest
of the circuit.



> One impressive setup put out over 1MV peak at an incredibly low 180Hz. The
> air-cored secondary coil had a huge number of turns arranged in 125 stacked
> pies, and the whole system was enclosed in a steel vessel full of
> pressurised freon, with a thin laminated steel inner shell. The primary was
> series resonated by a big capacitor and driven by a 180Hz alternator. It
> put about 2kW out to the X-ray tube, weighed 1500lbs, and seemed to be
> about 30% efficient as far as I could tell from the text.
>
> Steve Conner
>
>
>

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