Re: MIT wireless energy transfer 'breakthrough' now vaunted by Science News ... (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:02:27 -0600
From: Gary Peterson <g.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: MIT wireless energy transfer 'breakthrough' now vaunted by Science
    News ... (fwd)

Jeff,

Thanks for bringing the list's attention to the 1895 article "Tesla's 
Oscillator and Other Inventions."  A searchable version is posted at 
www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1895-04-00.htm .

Gary


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Subject: Re: MIT wireless energy transfer 'breakthrough' now vaunted by
Science News ... (fwd)

> Gary,
>
> Well done on the documentation side of things.  This subject is also 
> touched upon nicely in the Century Magazine article from April 1895: (The 
> capital "A" in "MAgazine" is a valid typo for the link)
>
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/1895CenturyMAgazine/index.htm
>
> The sparks playing on condenser plates:
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/1895CenturyMAgazine/pages/18950012.htm
>
> The incadescent bulb lit:
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/1895CenturyMAgazine/pages/18950013.htm
>
> Of particular interest in that article is the steam powered Oscillator:
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/1895CenturyMAgazine/pages/18950007.htm
>
> As a point of curiosity, Tesla's work in this field inspired Edison to 
> jump on the bandwagon.  Edison's bulbs were simply Crookes or X-Ray tubes 
> with phosphors on the insides of the glass.
>
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/2007/ElihuThomson1/pages/fp1037.htm
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/2007/ElihuThomson1/pages/fp1017.htm
>
> Jeff Behary, c/o
> The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com
>
>>> Does anyone know of a source of pictures of Tesla's New York lab 
>>> demonstrations of "wireless power" with lamps lit at the output of 
>>> coils? . . .
>>>
>>> Ed