… followed orders and stood poised to pull it out again on command. The vibration of heavy current surging through the … Tesla from his post, he began to wonder if the inventor had been struck by lightning and lay injured or dead outdoors. … he stood there he had no idea. Later it turned out to have been only about one minute. But suddenly, inexplicably. all …
… not simultaneously sit there - for he would certainly have been electrocuted - Tesla knew that the human focus was needed to heighten the dramatic effect. It had been a painful modeling job, for the experiments and hence …
… or 18,140,000 cm = 0.018 henry approx. Had the above test been performed with the coil so modified, the capacity in … circuit - assuming the inductance the same - would have been smaller by a ratio of $! {18.14 \over 20} $! or we … 153 = 0.13759 mfd capacity. We have therefore as basis for computation: 316 …
… standard LC oscillator. The integral of the physical area encompassed by points A,B,C,D, we call the "LC loop". It is … whatsoever. Tesla's Colorado Springs oscillator could have been substantially improved if these construction techniques would have been known back in the late 1800's. In extremely large …
… would never have declared war against Spain had the matter been left to President McKinley, rather than to a Congress … the publisher requested that he be given a position in command on his boat. The Navy prudently accepted the craft … it will give us an advantage; and I shall be proud to have been of so much use to my country." "Then you consider …
… RIDICULED, CONDEMNED, COMBATTED 163 This one line alone may indict the romantic … his scientific reputation. Thus, Hawthorne went on, it had been the inventor in the lonely observatory on the … is as the dome of Saint Peter to pepper-pots, had been trained to the hour, and the signal was not in vain." …
… RIDICULED, CONDEMNED, COMBATTED munication and another, expensively printed on … earlier and better time, as the inventor told her, he had been able to get money from Morgan just by asking for it. On … dropping out of the world system venture-he actually had been only a lender-convinced other potential backers that it …
… 168 RIDICULED, CONDEMNED, COMBATTED experiment station at Colorado Springs, and this … good enough to ask her grace if the Warwick vase could have been the original of Keats' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'?"¹7 … in view of the several articles and consultations Tesla had been asked to provide to Century magazine. He suggested to …
… already offered the turbine to the U.S. government. Despite complimentary remarks about his invention from some in the War Department, no orders had been placed at home. This time Morgan relented and extended … there were problems with the turbine: the metal had not been manufactured that could take such high speeds for long; …
… in the field of copper metallurgy were poorly planned and completely unsuccessful. Nevertheless I learned a great deal … had predicted. At last, liquid copper that had been melted elsewhere was poured into the equipment, … gassy and were in no way different from copper that had not been subject to the Tesla treatment." And then, since the …