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Article #17115Re: Tesla coils
From: Edwin Wiles
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1986 00:13
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1986 00:13
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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!) -- 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!sundc!netxcom!ewiles From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Tesla coils Message-ID: <221@netxcom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 19:13:50 EST Article-I.D.: netxcom.221 Posted: Tue Dec 9 19:13:50 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Dec-86 23:58:27 EST References: <6824@decwrl.DEC.COM> Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) Organization: NetExpress Communications Inc. Vienna, Va. Lines: 25 Summary: Government seizure of Teslas papers...