Re: Teslas Ball Lightning

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 02:39 PM 8/5/2005, you wrote:
> 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

It would be typical then, as it is now, to consider everything within 
say 50 miles to be on "the slopes of Pikes Peak".  At 14,000+ feet, 
everything nearby is "downhill" of it...  So I would not take that 
description too literally.

Tesla lab was just about in the middle of nothing at the time.  Only 
the big original building of the Colorado School for the Deaf and 
Blind shows up in the pictures of the lab's surroundings.  Today, it 
is almost in the center of the modern city.

With the on-line info now, you can pretty much pinpoint whose back 
yard the original site is in.  The houses seem to have been built up 
in the late 40's.  There is on evidence of the original site now 
other than a marker in the nearby park.

The local residents have grown very annoyed at folks wandering around 
looking for Tesla's lab....  If you show up there asking about 
Tesla's lab, they will probably just shoot you.  Best just to go to 
the park, or keep a very low profile if you go looking around there today.

Cheers,

        Terry