Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <g.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ed,In response to my assertion that, "the World System was designed to employ certain spread-spectrum principles, making available the shorter wavelength regions of the electromagnetic spectrum." you responded with, "Resonance and "spread spectrum" . . . are mutually incompatible."
I wish to call your attention to Tesla's 1903 patents "System of Signaling" and "Method of Signaling" patents that lay out the basic principles of frequency-hopping and frequency-division multiplexing in wireless spread spectrum telecommunications. In order to provide greater security he used a wireless signal produced on a multiple of frequencies -- the transmitter worked at a number of separate wave lengths, like a pipe organ playing a musical chord or, alternatively, a specific sequence of notes. On the receiver side each one of the individual frequency components had to be tuned in in order for the circuitry to respond.
These patents also describe the electronic AND-gate logic circuit, a fundamental element of all present day digital computers. In fact, on the basis of these patents the U.S. Patent Office has asserted Tesla's priority for the invention of electronic logic gates in general. See http://www.tfcbooks.com/articles/control.htm for some additional words on this subject.
Most sincerely, Gary Peterson
Original poster: jbrave <onephatcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi, I joined the list just to see if anyone has done any work, or knows of any attempts to use tesla coil technology for transmittingwireless data?Related questions: What is the smallest functional tesla coil size? Can a tesla coil be built with such specs that it could be used with mobile computers without damaging them, yet put out enough energy that data could be trancieved over a wide distance? Could it be used both as a power source and a data connection, so that a laptop could be powered and have an internet connection? Thanks, Joel