… TCBA News Volume 8 - Issue 3 3rd Quarter 1989 Ball Lightning Project · Central Scientific Co, Dedication · … a ball-ended discharge rod is swivelled. By turning the rods, separation between the balls up to the limit of the …
… to have had a visit from Steve Karkus, proprietor of Lightning Effects in Los Angeles, CA. Steve was in New york … from this coil to Leyden jar and spark-gap are heavy brass rods elevated on tall insulating posts, a construction which …
… performances There are few things more impressive than lightning. It invokes a combination of fear and awe like nothing else. Tesla Universe provides artificial lightning displays for TV shows, live performances and …
… Tesla first experimented with giant coils that produced lightning-like discharges which would span his laboratory — … r.f. energy to excite coil. It consists of two copper rods mounted on standoffs. Design and Layout. The prototype … houses and establishments which sell plastics (sheets, rods, etc.). Clear acrylic tubing (48" long, 4 1/2" O.D.) …
… thick. The two uprights can be made from half-inch brass rods each 2 1/2 inches high. One-half inch from each top … unsigned “tongue in cheek” note referring to my article on lightning and rubber tires which appeared in Volume 3 #4, … in the story could use a lesson or two on the nature of lightning and its characteristics of polarity let alone the …
… Kerrigan Lewis Mfg. · Magnifying Transmitter · Tesla Coils, Lightning In Colorado...Magnifying · Professional Sound … by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. Fiber or bakelite tubes, or rods mounted in holes in these blocks, make an ideal …
… Pikes Peaks range along a great plain. When Tesla detected lightning discharges and standing waves, he made the … his ability to generate tremendously high frequencies and lightning discharges in excess of 100 feet. Shortly after … a conceptual leap was made by Tesla, for he conceived of lightning as being intimately involved with the dynamic …
… time-worn theory advanced by Benjamin Franklin as to the lightning conductor is not substantially correct as viewed … come as a shock even to our professors that the lightning rod actually aids the lightning in hitting the building. The … memoir how this could be done by the use of pointed metal rods. The earliest trials were made by Dalibrand in France, …
… 1986 Van De Graaff, Robert J. · Strickfaden, Kenneth · Ball Lightning · Kick-back Prevention · Quality Factor, … jump from the primary to the secondary coil. Hence, if the rods where the spark discharge is supposed to take place are …
… anyone know if this photo has ever appeared in print? When Lightning Strikes “According to the Encyclopedia,” … up the good work.” (Phil Peterson) “John J. O'Neill (PRODIGAL GENIUS) was not inhibited in the use of imagination … The vulcanite “posts” are 6" radio lead-in tubes. The brass rods and terminals, which are first removed, come in for use …