FrankM Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 duplicate post - deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 I remember reading about his tower. Yeah, the 100 000 000 volt transmitter at Colorado Springs, little 200 foot high tower with a copper ball on top. You know, there are a lot of people who question whether he actually built that tower. There are theories out there that say that he did it for support and publicity, but the tower was never built.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankM Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Tesla did build a tower on Long Island. Wardenclyffe Project More background on the Wardenclyffe Project in the following URLs. Monument Tower I noted in a previous post that Tesla had planned to use ultraviolet lamps to assist in providing an ionizedpath for his atmospheric power leg. The current crop of high power pulsed ultraviolet lasers can provide an ionizing beam that would far exceed anything Tesla could have achieved with his lamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAHD Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 shintashi, when's the next update? I'd like to hear some more of your ideas concerning Tesla, it's a subject where my curiosity far exceeds my education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shintashi Posted June 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 flashbulbs vs. sustained energy: as far as I've noticed, Tesla was capable of producing more energy than mankind is today, and while we may believe the petawatt lasers for instance, exceed his parameters of possibility, we forget to do certain activities, like division. when Lawrence Livermore creates an e15 watt laser, it only lasts for a fraction of a second. A thermonnuclear reactor takes 3,153,600 seconds to reach e15 watts, and a megaton hydrogen bomb maintains this value of energy for a brief flash. All of these fancy energy productions are actually USING tesla patents,if not directly Teslamachines (such as the power generators pushing into the capacitors at Livermore). Tesla, on the other hand, understood the principle of exponential energy production, and could, with a pocket sized device, shredBrooklyn bridge in a matter of minutes. He created earthquakes in Manhatten with a device about the size of a TV set - and the earthquakes GREW in magnitude until he smashed the device with a sledgehammer. The amounts of energy possible with Tesla boggles the mind. Apparently, the "death beam" he spoke of would have a range ofhundreds of miles and could target thousands of planes simultaneously. Concerning his "lesser" experiments, Tesla's tablesized carbon button lamb was capable of producing energy intensities that could disintegratediamonds and rubies - LITERALLY disintegrating them on the atomic level. This technique today is used in steel mills (with ZERO credit to tesla) on a lesser scale to electrically smelt steeland to so degree, aluminum, and yet no one thanks him. Your modern plasma cutter for $20,000 found in popular science magazines and the like, are also an abrdigement of this principle invention. I think if tesla really wanted to use something more severe than ultra violet lamps at some odd million candelas, - heprobably would have. fun experiments at Helsinki, from a finnish website. http://personal.inet.fi/atk/dncmrc/thorguid.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankM Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 shintashi said, Tesla, on the other hand, understood the principle of exponential energy production, and could,with a pocket sized device, shred Brooklyn bridge in a matter of minutes. He created earthquakes in Manhatten with a device about the size of a TV set - and the earthquakes GREW in magnitude until he smashed the device with a sledgehammer. When Tesla turned on his pneumatic device he did not expect the extreme resonant and harmonic responses that were manifested in the structural members of the building he was in, and he knew he had to terminate the experiment immediately, not just turn off the air supply (which probably required turning a valve, a slow response). Tesla did not know how widespread his device had effected other buildings until after the event. One of Tesla's pneumatic devices was a platform upon which he invited people to stand, but they didn't stay very long, quickly exiting to the nearest bathroom, the vibration having induced a very liquid bowel movement. The term "exponential energy production" is an unconventional way to denote, "inducing resonance". Resonant coupling is the most efficient way to transfer energy whether it be mechanical or electromagnetic. Tesla was pushing the state-of-the-art in electromagnetic devices until his activities were essentiallyhalted by events associated with WW1 and lack of funds. It is difficult to extrapolate what Tesla knew at the time of his death in 1943. He most certainly would have been aware of heterodyning (1920s) and cavity resonators (1930s), but if he ever utilized these concepts in his "future device plans" is not known. There are all kinds of stories as to what happened to his papers at the time of his death (1943), but thecommon thread is that the "government" took them. Tesla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Originally posted by: FrankM Particle physicists are a specialized form of energy.Ya but the problem is that you collapse when observed! :-) The Tesla story is very interesting. What would have happened if Tesla had the business sense and persona of Edison or Bell? How much of his technological advancements would be more fully implemented? Or would the ionosphere be glowing today with no life left on earth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAHD Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I see no reason charging the ionosphere would kill all life. If anything I'd wager that it would improove our planet's ability to deflect the more harmful cosmic rays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rls Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Sir, your descriptions of Tesla and his achievements are fairly accurate, but just to point out one mistake, he could not have proposed the idea of a space elevator in the 1840's, he was not born until 1856 in town of Smilijan, Austria-Hungary. There is no doubt he was a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Martin Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Welcome to our forum rls, My intuition tells me that you will fit right in here. Looking forward to discussing things with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Hey rls,I bet that he meant 1940's and that it's just a typo.....anyways welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rls Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Thanks Uncle Martin and Alexander, there are definitely some interesting topics and ideas floating around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Glad you find things of interest here rls. We look foreward to your insights and comments. Bring a friend along next time! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Martin Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Originally posted by: FreethinkerGlad you find things of interest here rls. We look foreward to your insights and comments. Bring a friend along next time! :-) A threesome? You dirty dog you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shintashi Posted July 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 hmnn.. has anyone looked into the process of wave splicing and decoding as performed by Tesla ? Apparently he could take two completely different frequencies, splice them together, and had a method of decoding them, back when he was inventing guided torpedos. Has anyone stopped to think of how this could theoretically negate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ? And how this would effect our theories about the origins of the theories behind quantum teleportation ? - Shin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 I'm beginning to wonder if this is cult of personality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankM Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 It does appear Tesla had developed a method to mix and de-mix signals of a different frequency, ashe demonstrated a remote controlled boat in 1897, which probably used those concepts. Other talented individuals probably noted Tesla's experiments and developed them further, but used different terminology. Fressenden developed circuits to mix and de-mix different frequencies to invent what he called AM modulation (1906). This looks all too familiar to what could be described as "wave splicing and decoding". Tesla probably used one or more mechanical coherers as his control mechanism. He was ahead of the curve in applications and he used terminology that was "descriptive" and not necessarily what was eventually adopted by the scientific community. http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/Tesla-Article.htm Coherer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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