New York Herald - August 30th, 1908
… need in aerial navigation is unfailing protection against lightning. …
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Nikola Tesla content related to “lightning rods”
… of two fixed electrodes mounted on insulating posts. Metal rods, bolts, etc. are used for the electrodes and the gap is … small gaps. The electrodes are a series of short metal rods arranged in a parallel formation, or metal balls. The …
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TCBA newsletter added April 19, 2015 - 3:23 PM
… became irked and wrote, “I wish I could turn all the forked lightning discharge in my laboratory on the fellow.” For … it had little to do with Tesla's work with ball lightning. Hands on Electronics As long as we are on the … fixed gap amounts to nothing more than a set of welding rods. What the system needs is a heavy rotary gap in series …
… two thousand meters high, where he generated artificial lightning and thunder. The lightning was longer than those in the clouds, and the …
Book page added January 2, 2024 - 8:36 PM
… could account for the rare phenomenon of ball lightning. The intense energy of the ball of lightning, as compared to the lesser energy of an … Thus such phenomena as earthstress lights, ball lightning, and the Tesla system of wireless transmission of …
Book page added December 22, 2023 - 5:36 PM
Popular Science Monthly - November 1st, 1928
… of the future that Tesla gave me. Crackling artificial lightning of millions of volts produced by Tesla at Colorado … With it, he turned ordinary electricity into crackling lightning of millions of volts. Noises of thunderous … has identified my ‘Magnifying Transmitter’ with thunder and lightning,” Dr. Tesla said, “it operates in silence. There …
Article added June 19, 2015 - 11:28 PM
High Times - August 1st, 1981
… through his body , with sizzling arcs of Technicolor lightning forking and clashing around him like all … would be a challenge to George Lucas. Tesla was casting lightning bolts as high as the Empire State Building, and … the night sky whole extended ballets of many-colored “globe lightning”. He did this for kicks, and never bothered …
Article added October 14, 2018 - 3:39 PM
… 4. The time periods between the discrete strokes of a lightning signature are measured to see if periods of … a functional correlation related to diameter. In fact, the lightning signatures frequently exhibit the time periods …
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… Analysis of Lightning Signatures in the Literature A reference in (6) to … Sept. 1978, pg. 201, shows electric field traces of a lightning flash in which the leaders and return. strokes are …
Book page added December 22, 2023 - 5:53 PM
… Letter, Tesla to Leonard Curtis, 1899. Chapter 13 Hurler of Lightning 13-1 O'Neill, Genius , pp. 175-76. 13-2 Letter, …
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