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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Tesla coils
Message-ID: <221@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 19:13:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 19:13:50 1986
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Summary: Government seizure of Teslas papers...

In article <6824@decwrl.DEC.COM>
			brandenberg@star.dec.com (Monty Brandenberg) writes:
...edited...
>                                          If you're simply
>interested in the history, you will have some work ahead of
>you:  Tesla's notes from his Colorado Lab were (as I recall)
>seized by the Government at the time of his death and those
>that weren't given to the Czechoslovakian Government are
>still sealed away.
>
>				Monty Brandenberg

Would anyone know WHY the government would do this?  I don't remember
anything about Tesla coils or his form of 'broadcast' power that is
especially dangerous, or useful in war.  As for the potential of using
it for broadcast power, I remember that either it didn't work too well,
or there was no way to keep unauthorized persons from tapping into the
supply without paying.  (Not sure which it was, might be both!)

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