Tesla's large pancake coil

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>



I stumbled across this newspaper illustration on Tesla Mem. Society site:

  A Demonstration Made at Tesla's Laboratory Yesterday
  http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/teslaarticle2.jpg


Odd that the discharge goes *away* from the coil.   The coil's EM field
must sculpt the discharge path, no?


This appears to be the same device which hung in Wardencliffe:

  Wardenclyffe: exhibition of various inventions
  http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/labpic.jpg


In these other famous photos, the sphere-electrode is not installed:

  http://www.teslasociety.com/posters/teslalab.jpg

  http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/teslapic.jpg


Here's another artist's conception, again showing the discharge going away
from the coil.   I wonder if the discharge path was so reliable that Tesla
could actually sit as shown below?  Or is it just an "artist's
conception?"

  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/tesla/tesla_4.gif




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