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 16:55:55 -0700
From: resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Some interesting photos regarding Tesla from the Edison archive...
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Tesla's work was geared toward his dream of lighting up globes with higher 
and higher frequency currents to eliminate thermal losses.  At first he 
built very high frequency (for his day) mechanical alternators that produced 
high frequency currents, and that eventually lead to him hooking up one of 
these high freq alternators to a transformer, and, eventually he discovered 
removing the iron core produced even greater outputs.

He was keenly aware of Lord Kelvin's experiments with condensors as well, 
and started experimenting with the idea of a capacitor to produce the higher 
and higher frequency currents he was searching for.

Britts Oliver and Lodge were also given considerable credit along with Tesla 
for the tuned circuit concept.

Tesla's primary goal was HF current globe lighting and later changed to 
wireless pursuits.

Dr. Resonance



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>> 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.
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>> >       I would not doubt that Thompson made the first air core 
>> > coil....but did
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>> > he actually make the connection about the four tuned circuit that made 
>> > radio
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>> > transmission possible?   Did he experiment with power transmission 
>> > without wires?
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> 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.
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>> > I would love a copy of that document you said you'd scan.
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>> > I'm not trying whatsoever to say Thompson wasn't instrumental in this
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>> > new field of science...and can't say a thing about who preceded whom in
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>> > the invention of the air cored coil.    If you decide to scan that,
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>> > would you put me on the list of recipients(of course, I'd get it if 
>> > posted to the list).
>>   Mike
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> Sure. I'll do it tonight after work.
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> Dan K.
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