Re: [TCML] Tesla files

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From: ashumate3 <ashumate3@xxxxxxx>
To: tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 10:02 am
Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesla files


 
Speaking of Tesla Files - I remember reading years ago that when Tesla  
died the FBI confiscated all of his papers that was with him. Have these papers 
 ever seen the light of day. 

Not yet.

 
I think one of things he proposed was a death ray which I think would be  
the laser beam. 


I think this is the fallacy of reading technology backwards into history.
The theoretical possibility of the Maser (microwave precursor to the laser)
wasn't developed until Tesla has been dead nine years. The theoretical 
principles describing the operation of a maser were first described by 
Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov from Lebedev Institute of Physics in 
May 1952.
Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and H. J. Zeiger built the first ammonia 
maser at Columbia University in 1953. Townes later worked with Arthur L. 
Schawlow to describe the principle of the optical maser, or laser, of which 
Theodore H. Maiman created the first working model in 1960. 
For their research in the field of stimulated emission, Townes, Basov and 
Prokhorov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
Tesla did many great things in electrical engineering, 
This was not one of them.
Matt D.
 
In a message dated 9/5/2012 1:47:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
andreas.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Can't  believe I forgot the link. Sorry for the extra messages,  everyone.
http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/projekti/p1.htm


On  Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Andreas Hahn wrote:

> Looks like the Museum is  still in the process of processing and 
digitizing 
> his archive, sadly  they appear to be well past the original 2008 date 
for 
> publishing an  inventory of it.
>
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