Re: Some interesting photos regarding Tesla from the Edison archive... (fwd)

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Original poster: Gerry Reynolds <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:57:06 -0500
From: Daniel Kline <daniel_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Some interesting photos regarding Tesla from the Edison archive...
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> Original poster: Gerry Reynolds <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:58:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Some interesting photos regarding Tesla from the Edison archive...
>     (fwd)
> 
> A point I think a lot of researchers miss is that Tesla's AC 
> experiments 
> before his wireless transmission tests were done with iron-cored 
> transformers. My belief is that he saw an air-cored cap-discharge coil 
> and ran with the idea. The idea that capacitive discharge was 
> oscillatory was well known before Tesla's time (Leyden jars).
> 
> Dan K.
> 
> >       I would not doubt that Thompson made the first air core coil....but did 

> > he actually make the connection about the four tuned circuit that made radio 

> > transmission possible?   Did he experiment with power transmission without wires?     

No, no. I'm not saying anything like that. I'm certain that Tesla saw 
implications in the system that no one else had conceived in any way.

> > I would love a copy of that document you said you'd scan.   

> > I'm not trying whatsoever to say Thompson wasn't instrumental in this

> > new field of science...and can't say a thing about who preceded whom in 

> > the invention of the air cored coil.    If you decide to scan that,  

> > would you put me on the list of recipients(of course, I'd get it if posted to the list).
>   Mike

Sure. I'll do it tonight after work.

Dan K.