hot dog - topic drift -- odors in labs

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I had the great pleasure in the '70's of meeting Dr. Edgerton through
work (I was employed by the New England Aquarium and met him there -- he
had a passion for Oceanography as well as strobes)

I also did a lot of photography so took him up on an invitation to see
his labs.

You all know the famous photos of bullets piercing various fruits?
What you don't know is that the lab where these photos were taken
smelled of 'ripe' fruit.
It was an old ramshackle wood building (WW-II surplus), no air
conditioning and Cambridge's famous 90/90 summers (90 degrees and 90%RH)

Every time one of these photos was taken, a fine mist of fruit pulp
would be spread around the room.

Winter was a lot better time to work there...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:14 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: hot dog
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> Original poster: "Paul Marshall" <klugmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I once placed a Hot Dog on the live bushing of my 14.4 25 KvA
> pig. I held
> it in place with a wire tie and allowed the other end of the
> dog to arc to
> ground. It was load limited to 18 Kw. The hot dog ignited
> like a yellow
> railroad flare. It was awsome, but stinky. The primary current was
> monitored at 80 amps.
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> We also shot a hot dog with 15Kv at 4,500 j. That was a real
> mess. I had to
> clean hot dog off of the celing. It just gives you an Idea of
> how lethal
> these things can be.....
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> Have fun but always be careful.
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> Paul S. Marshall
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> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: hot dog
> >Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:45:41 -0600
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> >Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >"Microwave ovens cook hot dogs.  Not Tesla coils.  The
> frequencies are
> >WAYYYYYYYYYYY too low for cooking.
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> >Skip"
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> >         There is a way.  Put a nail into each end of the
> hot dog and hook
> > it in
> >series with the PRIMARY of the NST.  The AC line current
> flowing through
> >the hot dog will cook it fairly quickly.
> >
> >Ed
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