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Article #17119Re: Tesla coils
From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1986 00:10
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1986 00:10
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In article <221@netxcom.UUCP>, ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
> In article <6824@decwrl.DEC.COM>
> brandenberg@star.dec.com (Monty Brandenberg) writes:
> ...edited...
> > If you're simply
> >interested in the history, you will have some work ahead of
> >you: Tesla's notes from his Colorado Lab were (as I recall)
> >seized by the Government at the time of his death and those
> >that weren't given to the Czechoslovakian Government are
> >still sealed away.
> > Monty Brandenberg
> Would anyone know WHY the government would do this? I don't remember
> anything about Tesla coils or his form of 'broadcast' power that is
> especially dangerous, or useful in war. As for the potential of using
> it for broadcast power, I remember that either it didn't work too well,
> or there was no way to keep unauthorized persons from tapping into the
> supply without paying. (Not sure which it was, might be both!)
Read the New York times around the 1950's. I forgot the date, but
sometime around then he proposed construction of a "death ray" that
could knock airplanes from sky, and destroy huge armies easily.
It kinda sounds like todays SDI program.
>
> Edwin Wiles
> Net Express, Inc.
> 1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300
> Vienna, VA 22180
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!andromeda!argus!ken From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Tesla coils Message-ID: <648@argus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 19:10:27 EST Article-I.D.: argus.648 Posted: Thu Dec 11 19:10:27 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Dec-86 22:41:00 EST References: <6824@decwrl.DEC.COM> <221@netxcom.UUCP> Organization: NJ Inst of Tech., Newark NJ Lines: 37