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WHAT EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED BY TESLA SUGGESTING THAT WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION MAY BE POSSIBLE?
DID TESLA TRANSMIT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF POWER AT COLORADO SPRINGS?
REGARDLESS OF ABOVE, WILL TESLA'S CONCEPT WORK WITH TODAY'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELECTRO-PHYSICS PHENOMENA INVOLVED?
After several years of searching for evidence that would answer the first two questions, and finally attempting to answer the third, I came to a disappointing conclusion which was expressed in Margaret Cheney's biography of Tesla published in 1981. I was, however, somewhat uneasy about taking that position because of the many technical efforts Tesla had been involved in that we have not yet been made aware of, according to personal communications I received from Kenneth Swezey (Tesla's close friend in later years) and Sava Kosanovic (Tesla's nephew). Perhaps there is a different mode of propagation that has not been adequately investigated.
All this was before I had heard of the work of James Corum and Kenneth Corum who set about to critically examine Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes: 1899-1900 and, essentially, attempt to also answer the above questions. Those who are au courant with their recent papers know that they have given us an understanding of Tesla's slow-wave 'Extra Coils,' electric fire ball production, single- electrode x-ray tube response, Tesla's glow sphere, and relativistic electron beam production with resulting bremsstrahlung among other high power electro-physics effects.
Many were disappointed by my 1981 conclusion, and the work of the Corums suggested that I may not have examined some of the essential aspects involved. The pendulum began swinging away from doubt--the work of perhaps the greatest research experimentalist of the past century was in question. But now, after the issues have settled a bit, the pendulum is swinging again toward doubt but holding at uncertainty.
I will attempt to answer the above questions in the analysis that follows, and I invite all my friends to challenge the arguments and conclusions. I offer this analysis as a private report. Other detractors of Tesla may bring up the same arguments in print. If there are reasonable challenges to my doubts, then these arguments, developed in response to this report, will be ready for rebuttal to others who do not entertain the wireless power transmission work of Tesla in kindest terms.
Leland I. Anderson
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