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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Tesla coils
Message-ID: <648@argus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 19:10:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 19:10:27 1986
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In article <221@netxcom.UUCP>, ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
> 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!)

Read the New York times around the 1950's.  I forgot the date, but
sometime around then he proposed construction of a "death ray" that
could knock airplanes from sky, and destroy huge armies easily.
It kinda sounds like todays SDI program.

> 
> 					Edwin Wiles
> 					Net Express, Inc.
> 					1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300
> 					Vienna, VA 22180

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