Re: real life applications

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Original poster: <davep@xxxxxxxx>


> PBS has a good site about Tesla that I used to get my first general
> knowledge of his history. At this page it generally describes what  led
> Tesla to start building the coil:
> 
<http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_hifreq.html>http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_hifreq.html
> And this page describes some of the impacts it had near the bottom of
> the page:
> 
<http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_tescoil.html>http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_tescoil.html
> To me the Tesla coil seemed to contribute most as an invention that
> helped prompt discovery in other areas that yielded many other
> important inventions. Radio, X-Rays, etc, are all things that
> branched out of the Tesla coil design itself.
     All of which existed pre Tesla Coil, and driven by 'induction coils'
     (interrupter plus coil) as well, or better.  PBS is a generalist
     organization: their details may or may not match up with
     the real history.

     Perhaps Tesla was a great enough mind that his achievements need
     not be overstated....

     best
      dwp