Re: [TCML] Tesla Coil in Beijing: press release

[mddeming@xxxxxxx]

Hi Herr Zapp, All,

It has been my personal experience that, despite talking to the largest 
paper in my state and being a long-time friend of the Editor, any time 
one does not give a reporter a printed, mostly monosyllables press 
release, they will garble anything technical. It is also unsafe to 
assume that an interviewer will have done any background on the 
subject. I was surprised to find myself quoted as saying that a Tesla 
Coil is a type of motor!

Matt D.







-----Original Message-----
From: Quarkster <quarkster@xxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 1:34 am
Subject: RE: [TCML] Tesla Coil in Beijing: press release



Jeff B. (and Jeff P.) -

It just seems, well, hard to believe that an experienced news reporter 
from a
major newspaper (Milwaukee Journal Sentinal) could get so confused, and 
could
end up "fabricating" such a story our of thin air .....without a little 
"help".

It might be worthwhile to contact the reporter (Sharif Durhams,
sdurhams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to get some understanding of who he 
actually
interviewed, what he was actually told.

(TC content): I certainly was paying close attention to KVA Effect's 
status
reports as construction on the coils progressed, and was really looking 
forward
to seeing them in operation. Think of the huge surge in interest in 
Tesla coils,
and in Tesla's work, that would h
ave resulted from millions of people 
seeing
these coils operating at full output.

Regards,
Herr Zapp





Jeff Behary <electrotherapy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hmm:

Wisconsin firm makes Tesla coil for Olympics ceremonies
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=781375
...
Resonance Research Corp. of Baraboo developed a 40-foot-tall Tesla coil 
that was
used during the opening ceremony. It’s slated for another appearance 
during the
closing ceremony Aug. 24. The device sends tendrils of lightning as 
long as 100
feet that are generated from two domes. It pops out 20 million volts of
electricity.
Resonance Research has built lasers, Van de Graaff generators, crackle 
tubes and
other devices for museums for more than four decades.
...
It took about a year to make the $1.3 million device, which was shipped 
to China
by boat two months ago, Cox said. He said he has two staffers at the 
Games,
providing technical assistance. Another contractor has 20 employees 
there to
help with the set-up.
Wisconsinites can get a closer look at a Tesla device. Discovery World 
at Pier
Wisconsin has a Tesla coil made by Resonance Research about 22 years 
ago.
It looks exactly the same as the one in China, just a bit smaller, Cox 
said.
Just don’t tell the Chinese the device is American-made, he cautioned.
“They kind of want people to assume it’s a local thing,” he said.

____


Hmm.

Jeff Behary
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> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:18:10 -0600> From: resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To:
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesla Coil in Beijing: press 
release> CC:
> > Actually, the news people totally botched it.> > They sought us out 
after
hearing about the Tesla coils Jeff was making. We> discussed Tesla's 
work and
how Tesla coils work.> > We never claimed to have made these machines. 
I was
horrified after reading> this article, and my sincere apologies to Jeff 
and his
group.> > D.C. Cox
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