Re: Tesla Application History. Re: [TCML] Life Magazine historic photo archive

["DC Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the BTD coil, the output was self-rectified thru the central vac tube
accelerator tube.

I know Gregory Breit as he was a physicist at Univ. of Wisconsin.

Dr. Resonance




On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:06 AM, <davep@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> >> I believe that is actually an enclosed Van de Graaf
> >> generator. That does look like a primary coil that
> >> the technician is standing on, though doesn't it?
>    if i was unclear earlier:
>     concur the belt indicates VdG and puzzlement
>     about 'spirals' at base.
>
>    Equipotential rings, sometimes, function by corona:
>     the name 'corona ring' is encountered.
>
>   Meanwhile, back to Tesla Coils & Accelerators:
>    HV Laboratory Technique
>    Craggs & Meek
>    ca 1954
>
>   devotes 5 or 6 pp to Tesla Coils, winding up with, roughly:
>     One of the few detailed descriptions of High Voltage
>     Tesla Coils is due to BREIT, TUVE & DAHL
>       Physics Review 35
>       1930
>       P 51.
>     At that time the possibility of using Tesla Coils for
>     accelerating nuclear particles was bing actively explored
>     in several countries.  The present work...a Tesla
>     transformer, oil immersed, developing 5 MV.  Other
>     details in the paper [as above] with full details of
>     running and details encountered.
>
>    (my informal summary of accompanying schematic:
>      220/60 to 70,000/60
>      Mechanical rectifier (!!)
>      condenser
>      spark gap
>     (into the tank...500psi...)
>      balanced Tesla primary/secondary)
>
>   NO mention is made of how the output was to be rectified.
>    [Self rectifying in the beam tube, as in microwave oven??]
>
>   It might be instructive, to track down that original paper.
>   (Surely in a library, possibly on the web?)
>   If memory serves TUVE was one of the names involved in the
>   VdG I recalled at the Smithsonian...
>
>   best
>    dwp
>
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