Scientific American - August 8th, 1914
… is suspended inside the primary by means of two ebonite rods 19 inches long. The secondary coil is nearly 7 feet …
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Nikola Tesla content related to “lightning rods”
… Further efforts to tune still more closely resulted in producing a spark between rods 2 1/4" and with the capacity of the experimenter on … pipe and it was found still that a spark of 1" between the rods was obtained. The same would have been probably longer …
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UFO Magazine - July 1st, 2000
… operations where uncontrollable events (solar flares or lightning) have created disturbances by heating the … and ... zap ! The first round-trip generated a six-foot lightning bolt from the antenna; as the cycle continued the …
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ExtraOrdinary Technology - April 1st, 2003
… observed in 1835, found its first application by 1852 as a lightning protector for telegraph lines. Under stress of a high voltage lightning strike, the coherer would short to ground, thus … thus decohering the chips after each received impulse from lightning strikes. It is now believed by Dr. James Corum …
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Mobile Times - September 1st, 1978
… Tesla was elated. His next step was to actually produce lightning. As a Tesla biographer records: “Tesla's eyes … popped out of his head as he saw full-fledged bolts of lightning darting into the air, accompanied by a barrage of tremendous crashes of thunder. Those lightning bolts were now half again the length of the …
Article added July 11, 2015 - 1:46 AM
… In the case of the lightning discharges, Tesla surmised that the lightning strokes set off an electromagnetic wave in the … to Tesla, the storm produced an "extraordinary display of lightning, no less than 10-12 thousand discharges being …
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… generator of tremendous electrical activity, producing lightning discharges of a magnitude and intensity probably … flashed with frightening frequency during the almost daily lightning storms. Tesla made a very detailed study of natural lightning while his apparatus, which would imitate it, was …
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Radio Electronics - July 1st, 1956
… per second. The primary used over 300 kilowatts. Lightning in huge sparks thrown as far as 22 feet, created … 300 feet distant. A little later, Tesla was able to obtain lightning-like discharges over 100 feet long. This thus made …
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TCBA newsletter added April 19, 2015 - 3:23 PM
… Little Egypt tells of a young (nearly blind) physics prodigy who in the early 1920's discovers a way to tap into … Impulse Levels of 125 kV as protection against damage by lightning effects. But nonoil-filled (potted) power sources … helix of spring brass wire can take the place of the brass rods F if desired. Then the contacts can be made by merely …
Popular Electronics - October 1st, 1992
… physicists. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) provided a reproducible experimental illustration of Maxwell's theories. … text) Porcelain insulators, or equivalent (2) Narrow metal rods (2) Rubber feet (4) Brass or aluminum sheet metal, 2 X … The easiest way to do that is with two short metal rods held in place by a couple of small binding posts. The …
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