Re: Tesla's large pancake coil

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hi Bill, All,

    Many of the fantastic illustrations and even a few of the Tesla 
photographs from this era are known to be "conceptual illustrations" 
(faked). Most famous of these photos is the one of Tesla sitting next 
to a large helical coil while discharges strike all around him 
(double exposure).
     Some of the pen-and-ink illustrations used for press releases 
were commissioned by Tesla himself. This was not unusual for the 
time. Many of the cover illustrations for "Popular Science" and 
"Popular Electronics" up to the 1960's were of devices that never 
became reality.
    In general, if some illustration seems too amazing or too 
dangerous to make sense, it probably isn't real. A lot of amazing 
science is much more amazing than science.

Matt D.


In a message dated 9/28/06 2:28:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>



I stumbled across this newspaper illustration on Tesla Mem. Society site:

   A Demonstration Made at Tesla's Laboratory Yesterday
   http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/teslaarticle2.jpg


Odd that the discharge goes *away* from the coil.   The coil's EM field
must sculpt the discharge path, no?


This appears to be the same device which hung in Wardencliffe:

   Wardenclyffe: exhibition of various inventions
   http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/labpic.jpg


In these other famous photos, the sphere-electrode is not installed:

   http://www.teslasociety.com/posters/teslalab.jpg

   http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/teslapic.jpg


Here's another artist's conception, again showing the discharge going away
from the coil.   I wonder if the discharge path was so reliable that Tesla
could actually sit as shown below?  Or is it just an "artist's
conception?"

   http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/tesla/tesla_4.gif




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