Re: [TCML] Tesla coil history - which came first?

["Carlos Van Camp" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,
from what I have read, Tesla's initial discovery was that the discharge of a 
capacitor into an inductor produced a high frequency AC current (pulse) and 
not just the previously thought DC pulse...
He then set about exploiting this principle by combining it with the 
principle of resonance, and thus the Tesla coil was born.
It was later that he experimented with wireless power transmission and 
magnifiers.

Carlos

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Lau" <glau1024@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:30 PM
Subject: [TCML] Tesla coil history - which came first?


> I've been asked to give a brief talk about Tesla coils.  Of course no
> discussion of the topic is complete without credit to its inventor, Nikola
> Tesla.  It dawned on me that I don't really understand how Tesla came upon
> that device.  We all know he developed the TC to enable wireless
> transmission of power, but it's not obvious that he started out with that
> goal and then built a TC, or, more likely IMO, he somehow for some reason,
> cobbled together an early prototype TC, saw that power was transmitted, 
> only
> then realizing what it could do, and endeavored to refine it for that
> purpose.  Is there any known account of what inspired Tesla to first build 
> a
> resonant transformer?  Which came first - a high frequency resonant
> transformer, or the vision of wireless power transmission?  Or is it all
> just speculation at this point?
>
> Thanks, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
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