… 12,000,000 volts at 100 kc. The primary used over 300 kw. Lightning in huge sparks was thrown as far as 22 feet and … 300 feet distant. A little later Tesla was able to obtain lightninglike discharges over 100 feet long. Then, in 1898, …
… effects also by measurement. This I did by comparison with lightning discharges which occurred almost every day and … which was transmitted from a certain great distance by a lightning discharge. These I could follow up to distances of …
… coil of wire. Sizzling and crackling, this awe-inspiring lightning-like display seems to boldly challenge nature, but … of several million volts, second only to nature's own lightning. However, unlike nature, the Tesla coil creates a …
… been observed to last up to five minutes. To produce ball lightning, Tesla built a huge model of what the world knows … will allow he can be the second man to produce ball lightning for U.S. government agencies interested in its …
… exhausting the arc, I must mention that the stationary electrodes of the Nemesis rotary gap are 1/4" tungsten rod. The rotating electrodes are #10 steel pan head … replaced only once during the same period and the tungsten rods have never been replaced, only dressed once during the …
… and transmitting alternating current was in operation. Lightning arresters were improvised. The problem of training …
… here has been on fire five times and has been struck by lightning six times. Happily no damage was done.” …
… had occasion to read the Hunt/Draper biography of Tesla (Lightning in His Hand), I was left with the impression that …
… sight was afforded by the extraordinary display of lightning, no less than 10 - 12 thousand discharges being … A small spark gap was bridged by a bright spark when the lightning occurred in the neighborhood. By holding the hands … so for a while, when it stopped. It was thought that the lightning was now too far and it may have been about 50 …
… Vol. 7, 1988, No. 3, pp. 13-15. [41] "Structure of Ball Lightning", by J.R. Powell and D. Finkelstein, in Advances … Vol. 13, (1969), Academic Press, pp. 141-189. [42] "Ball Lightning", by J.R. Powell and D. Finkelstein, American …