Re: Teslas Ball Lightning

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 8/5/05 5:08:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Hi,

The Nolt CSN notes p9 says he built his lab on the slopes of Pikes
Peak.  A relatively isolated spot, apparently he appreciated the privacy.

Thanks

Chris

Hi Chris, I find reference to Pike's Peak only in the Prologue to the 
CSN, not in anything written by Tesla. These quotes are  from the 
prolgue to the 1999 edition (The so-called Nolit edition, 1978, may 
have a different prologue written by others, but neither written by 
Tesla himself):

"By mid 1899 he had finally chosen a plateau at the altitude of some 
2 000 meters near Colorado Springs, where he has a wooden hut built, 
large enough to accommodate a high frequency transformer with a coil 
15 m in diameter."

"The arrival of Nikola Tesla to Colorado Springs was publicized by 
the Evening Telegraph, a local newspaper,on 17 May 1899, entitled 
'Nikola Tesla will wire to France'"

"In a statement on his arrival to the Alta Vista Hotel he told 
journalists that ' he intended to send messages from Pikes Peak to Paris'".

Other than this bit of  journalistic alliteration , I can find no 
other reference to his intending to do, or having done, any work at 
Pike's Peak in the 1999 CSN. There is also no physical evidence that 
he was ever there (Pike's Peak) It is very possible in the 
translations of correspondence from that period, first from English 
to Croatian, and then from Croatian back to English that the 
information in these quotes became blended by a Serbian technical 
editor for whom Colorado geography was not a major subject.

Hope this helps,

Matt D.