tesla's colorado lab

["acmnovak" <acmnovak-at-email.msn-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hello All,
Today I uploaded a picture to my xoom-dot-com account that might interest you.
Sorry but I don't have a webpage or anything to go with it... Maybe someday.
Anyhow, here it is:
<http://members.xoom-dot-com/mpn54601/csnlab.jpg>http://members.xoom-dot-com/mpn546
01/csnlab.jpg 
 It is from a book called "The Fantastic Inventions Of Nikola Tesla". the
picture shows a small part of the colorado springs facility. One thing that
cought my eye in the photo is the large wire size used on his coils. In the
original photo, you can see the large wire much more easily than in the scan.
It appears as if he used 6 guage wire on a twelve inch form. Also, Tesla once
said "...the builder will find that hundreds of turns are not necessary for the
secondary to achive high voltages..." This was quite a shock to me seeing as
most of use use upwards of 800 turns on our coils. I realize that he was
talking about magnifiers, but can't we apply this knowledge to our coils? 
Anyone tried using really large wire on their secondary? 
I'd like to try a 4" x 16" (10cm x 40cm) coil wound with 18 guage enameled
wire... That might be interesting along with a tightly coupled primary with
maybe two or three turns of 3/8" copper tubing. 
Any thoughts?
 
 
    -Michael