Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"

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• Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"
• From: Bob Misiura <misiura-at-nccoast-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:27:20 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

John,

James Clerk Maxwell, in "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" volume
two (still in print a century after his death) shows a mechanical model
of induction.  He used a differential gear with movable weights to
simulate a variable inductance, and a string working as a band brake to
simulate resistance (loss).

The book is published in the UK, Canada, and US.  Dover Publications
#486-60637-6,  price: $11.95 (US). 

Maxwell seems to be the exception, most of his contemporaries found
analogies between sound, and the generation of sound, to explain
electrical theories.

bob misiura

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