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Re: Teslas Ball Lightning

Original poster: "Chris Rutherford" <chris1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I wasn't saying that he was on top of Pikes Peak, only that is the closest land mark when trying to work out the length of the transmission lines to the PowerStation, to see what the attenuation would have been, and to try to analytically produce some models for frying the generator through over voltage or over current. Also, I'd still like to know what the generating capacity was.

Apparently his exact spot was very close to the school for the deaf and blind, which is still there today.

Thanks

Chris

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: Teslas Ball Lightning


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.