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This is written by Nicola Tesla's own hand and contains generally completely unknown information. His very charitable thoughts even extend themselves to J.P. Morgan's motives. This is scientifically verifiable info, and astounding. I have been unable to refrain from making comment, however. He is very clear and direct in his capable descriptions and analysis of of the power of his discovery. This man was a genius. He was permanently maniacally placing discovery after discovery, suggesting a use, and moving on. Oppenheimer said "if you want to have good ideas, have a lot of them." This is an evidence of the law of large numbers. (The impossible happens more often in large number environs) Tesla had a lot of ideas. He had so many, that almost all worked. .There was and is an odd thing about his inventions. They all worked perfectly, and they all worked backwards as well as forward. Benefitting mankind was Tesla's dream. His archive is, for the most part, unknown and unused. The govt. uses some of his stuff in space because it's cheaper and safer.(moving satellites around without rockets frinstance) Down here, it's all a big phoney military secret. Here is what Tesla actually wrote:
I will be quite explicit on the subject of my magnifying transformer so that it will be clearly understood. In the first place, it is a resonant transformer, with a secondary in which the parts, charged to a high potential, are of considerable area and arranged in space along ideal enveloping surfaces of very large radii of curvature, and at proper distances from one another, thereby insuring a small electric surface density everywhere, so that no leak can occur even if the conductor is bare. It is suitable for any frequency, from a few to many thousands of cycles per second, and can be used in the production of currents of tremendous volume and moderate pressure, or of smaller amperage and immense electromotive force. The maximum electric tension is merely dependent on the curvature of the surfaces on which the charged elements are situated and the area of the latter. Judging from my past experience there is no limit to the possible voltage developed; any amount is practicable. On the other hand, currents of many thousands of amperes may be obtained in the antenna. A plant of but very moderate dimensions is required for such performances. Theoretically, a terminal of less than 90 feet in diameter is sufficient to develop an electromotive force of that magnitude, while for antenna currents of from 2,000-4,000 amperes at the usual frequencies, it need not be larger than 30 feet in diameter. In a more restricted meaning, this wireless transmitter is one in which the Hertz wave radiation is an entirely negligible quantity as compared with the whole energy, under which condition the damping factor is extremely small and an enormous charge is stored in the elevated capacity. Such a circuit may then be excited with impulses of any kind, even of low frequency and it will yield sinusoidal and continuous oscillations like those of an alternator. Taken in the narrowest significance of the term, however, it is a resonant transformer which, besides possessing these qualities, is accurately proportioned to fit the globe and its electrical constants and properties, by virtue of which design it becomes highly efficient and effective in the wireless transmission of energy. Distance is then ABSOLUTELY ELIMINATED, THERE BEING NO DIMINUATIONS IN THE INTENSITY of the transmitted impulses. It is even possible to make the actions increase with the distance from the plane, according to an exact mathematical law. This invention was one of a number comprised in my "World System" of wireless transmission which I undertook to commercialize on my return to New York in 1900.
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