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Re: Tesla Receiver Coil



Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx In a message dated 11/25/05 7:48:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

>>"I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did
>>not prove first. . . .

>    Does that include his famous predictions that Hertzian waves
> would disappear from the scene by 1920?

No, it doesn't.  Nevertheless, he did say this:

I am most interested, however, in the perfection of broadcasting
which is now carried on with unfit apparatus and on a commercially
defective plan. The transmitters have to be greatly improved and the
receivers simplified and in the distribution of wireless energy for
all purposes the precedent established by the telegraph, telephone
and power companies must be followed, for while the means are
different the service is of the same character.  Technical invention
is akin to architecture and the experts must in time come to the same
conclusions I have reached long ago.  Sooner or later my power system
will have to be adopted in its entirety and so far as I am concerned
it is as good as done.  If I were ever assailed by doubt of ultimate
success I would dismiss it by remembering the words of that great
philosopher, Lord Kelvin, who after witnessing some of my experiments
said to me with tears in his eyes: "I am sure you will do it." --
Nkola Tesla, "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy,"
Telegraph and Telegraph Age, October 16, 1927
(<http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/wireless08.htm>http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/wireless08.htm)


Fortunately, neither Tesla nor Kelvin had the authority in spite of their prestige, to override or veto natural law. Kelvin was another of those people who would not challenge Tesla's claim since the above quote was made by Tesla twenty years after Kelvin's death.

Matt D.