Re: Tesla Receiver Coil ..........success?

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Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ed:  you forget that Tesla invented the magnetic amplifier used to this day
for power control. It has changed very little ftom Tesla's original design.
The magnetic read rectifier is not used much now as the solid state
rectifier has replaced the read and the vacuum tube rectifier.
   Robert   H
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> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:31:56 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Tesla Receiver Coil ..........success?
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> Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:33:25 -0700 (MST)
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> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Actually, it's sort of interesting, now that I think about it. Not
>> much of Tesla's work concerned amplifiers.. lots of resonance
>> effects, etc., but not much in the way of amplifying.  Did he do
>> anything with saturable core amplifiers, for instance?
> The only thing I can remember is a strange "magnetic rectifier"
> patent for a device which couldn't work, indicating he probably
> hadn't actually built it.
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> Ed
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