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Re: Ball Lightning from high-amp discharge

Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>

Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Ed
I don't remember seeing it in CSN, but it was ten years ago when I
last read it.  It is mentioned in his patent for the magnifying
transmitter.
Mike"

    Which patent #?  I'm trying to figure out what he actually called
the phenomenon.

Ed


Ed,
  Here is the link to it from Gary Peterson's site:
<http://www.tfcbooks.com/patents/tower.htm>http://www.tfcbooks.com/patents/tower.htm

in the second to the last paragraph before the claims, Tesla says:
I have shown to that it is practicable to produce in a resonating circuit as E A B B' D immense electrical activities, measured by tens and even hundreds of thousands of horse-power, and in such a case, if the points of maximum pressure should be shifted below the terminal D, along coil B, a ball of fire might break out and destroy the support F or anything else in the way. For the better appreciation of the nature of this danger it should he stated, that the destructive action may take place with inconceivable violence. This will cease to be surprising when it is borne in mind, that the entire energy accumulated in the excited circuit, instead of requiring, as under normal working conditions, one quarter of the period or more for its transformation from static to kinetic form, may spend itself in an incomparably smaller interval of time, at a rate of many millions of horse power. The accident is apt to occur when, the transmitting circuit being strongly excited, the impressed oscillations upon it are caused, in any manner more or less sudden, to be more rapid than the free oscillations 

Mike


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