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Re: What IS special about a Tesla coil?
Hi Gavin,all,
You bring up some interesting points. If /when people ask me why I
build Tesla coils I usefully take them round to the shed, (or at least I did
until the people next door moved a load of computers in :-(( ), fire up
the coil, and watch the reaction. I must admit when I run the coil for an
audience the applause is very nice, Funny how some people avoid me
afterwards. The people who are most impressed tend to be "techies". One
person refused to believe Tesla coils existed until he saw it running! I
tend to agree that a lot of energy goes into the telecomm/computer industry,
but don't forget without it we would not have this wonderful newsgroup. I
tried finding out about Tesla coils some years ago and found it almost
impossible to get any information. If Tesla was around today I am sure he
would embrace our technology, and still be light-years ahead of most people.
I feel that if the nuclear industry carries on doing such a good job of
shooting itself in the foot more resources will be put into things like
fusion research. If Tesla was around today it would be interesting to see
which one he would have developed. I fancy it would be fusion myself. Of
course he would probably be developing something totally new.
cheers
bob golding
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Subject: Re: What IS special about a Tesla coil?
> Original Poster: "Gavin Dingley" <gavin.dingley-at-astra.ukf-dot-net>
Yet any coiler
> will
> acknowledge that a disruptive discharge coil can convert more power than
any
> solid state device or thermionic valve driven system.
> We get usable technology from playing around with hardware, not mucking
around
> with theory about what may be happening on the other side of the universe.
> Edison and Tesla made more of a contribution on our lives than Einstein or
Max
> Plank. Even the tunnel diode, the first device to work on the principles
of
> quantum mechanics, was discovered by a manufacturing error in a diode
factory.
> In short we did not need to know about quantum tunneling to benefit from
it.
> I am afraid to say I have more admiration for some of the people on this
list
> than I do for Hawkins, as they will probably do more for humanity in their
> research than he.
> So bring back Tesla (metaphorically) and get some real mind blowing
technology
> going, like we had a hundred years ago, not the advanced paper shuffling
> technology that dominates our world today (Internet, Computers, Digital
T.V.
> etc...).
>
> Sorry if I have upset anybody,
>
> Gavin, U.K.
>