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I think, however, that in the case of an electrode immersed in a fluid insulating medium, and surrounded by independent carriers of electric charges, which can be acted upon inductively, a sufficiently high frequency of the impulses would probably result in a gravitation of the gas all around toward the electrode. For this it would be only necessary to assume that the independent bodies are irregularly shaped; they would then turn toward the electrode their side of the greatest electric density, and this would be a position in which the fluid resistance to approach would be smaller than that offered to the receding.
From the remarks before made one may see what an important factor of loss the air in the neighborhood of a charged surface becomes when the electric density is great and the frequency of the impulses excessive. But the action as explained implies that the air is insulating—that is, that it is composed of independent carriers immersed in an insulating medium. This is the case only when the air is at something like ordinary or greater, or at extremely small, pressure. When the air is slightly rarefied and conducting, then true conduction losses occur also. In such case, of course, considerable energy may be dissipated into space even with a steady potential, or with impulses of low frequency, if the density is very great.
Originally posted by davesidious
reply to post by TeslaandLyne
Even more fact doused in conjecture. What is this actually bringing the thread? This is the Science & Technology board - please stick to actual evidence! Illuminati? Give me a break!!!
Originally posted by MBF
reply to post by TeslaandLyne
Man, I've tried every one of links that you posted to the site and none of them works. Is there a problem with the link or is it just me? I really do want to read it.
My power generator will be of the simplest kind - just a big mass of steel, copper and aluminum, comprising a stationary and rotating part, peculiarly assembled. I am planning to develop electricity and transmit it to a distance by my alternating system now universally established. The direct current system could also be employed if the heretofore insuperable difficulties of insulating the transmission lines can be overcome.
"My idea was to employ an artificial retina receiving the image of the object seen, an 'optic nerve' and another such retina at the place of reproduction. These two retinas were to be constructed after the fashion of a checkerboard with many separate little sections, and the so-called optic nerve was nothing more than a part of the earth. "An invention of mine enables me to transmit simultaneously, and without any interference whatsoever, hundreds of thousands of distinct impulses through the ground just as though I had so many separate wires. I did not contemplate using any moving part - a scanning apparatus or a cathodic ray, which is a sort of moving device, the use of which I suggested in one of my lectures. "Now if it be true that a thought reflects an image on the retina, it is a mere question of illuminating the same property and taking photographs, and then using the ordinary methods which are available to project the image on a screen. "If this can be done successfully, then the objects imagined by a person would be clearly reflected on the screen as they are formed, and in this way every thought of the individual could be read. Our minds would then, indeed, be like open books."
"First of all, we eat too much , but this we have heard said often before. And we eat the wrong kinds of foods and drink the wrong kinds of liquids. Most of the harm is done by overeating and under exercising, which bring about toxic conditions in the body and make it impossible to throw off the accumulated poisons. "My regime for the good life and my diet? Well, for one thing, I drink plenty of milk and water. "Why overburden the bodies that serve us? I eat but two meals a day, and I avoid all acid-producing foods. Almost everyone eats too many peas and beans and other foods containing uric acid and other poisons. I partake liberally of fresh vegetables, fish and meat sparingly, and rarely. Fish is reputed as fine brain food, but has a very strong acid reaction, as it contains a great deal of phosphorus. Acidity is by far the worst enemy to fight off in old age. "Potatoes are splendid, and should be eaten at least once a day. They contain valuable mineral salts and are neutralizing. "I believe in plenty of exercise.
Either power was to be developed on the spot by converting the energy of the sun's radiations or the energy of vast reservoirs was to be transmitted economically to any distance. Though there were other possible sources of economical power, only the two solutions mentioned offer the ideal feature of power being obtained without any consumption of material. After long thought I finally arrived at two solutions, but on the first of these, namely, that referring to the development of power in any locality from the sun's radiations, I can not dwell at present. The system of power transmission without wires, in the form in which I have described it recently, originated in this manner. Starting from two facts that the earth was a conductor insulated in space, and that a body can not be charged without causing an equivalent displacement of electricity in the earth, I undertook to construct a machine suited for creating as large a displacement as possible of the earth's electricity. This machine was simply to charge and discharge in rapid succession a body insulated in space, thus altering periodically the amount of electricity in the earth, and consequently the pressure all over its surface. It was nothing but what in mechanics is a pump, forcing water from a large reservoir into a small one and back again. Primarily I .contemplated only the sending of messages to great distances in this manner, and I described the scheme in detail, pointing out on that occasion the importance of ascertaining certain electrical conditions of the earth. The attractive feature of this plan was that the intensity of the signals should diminish very little with the distance, and, in fact, should not diminish at all, if it were not for certain losses occurring, chiefly in the atmosphere. As all my previous ideas, this one, too, received the treatment of Marsyas, but it forms, nevertheless
worked perfectly, and everybody who saw them was amazed at their performance.
Originally posted by Ahabstar
reply to post by buddhasystem
Tesla had lots of notes and patents that both Apple and IBM had to work around when designing processors. It is hard to say what future inventions may run into Tesla's patents again. The man dabbled in so many things.
It is a little known fact that Nikola Tesla is the acknowledged inventor of
the electronic AND logic gate circuit, a critical element of every digital ...
His submarine boat will carry no lives to risk, but can be directed
at a distance of miles from on shore or from the deck of a war ship.
The power to do this will be the electric vibrations of the air used in
wireless telegraphy.
Nikola Tesla - Prodigal Genius Biography of Nikola Tesla Prodigal Genius.
BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA TESLA. 1994 Brotherhood of Life, Inc.,
110 Dartmouth, SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA ...
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The "brush" in Tesla's tube was a beam of electrons.
The electron, however, had not yet been discovered.
Nevertheless, Tesla gave an accurate description of its nature,
demonstrating the remarkable accuracy of his interpretation of strange
phenomena. So sensitive was this electronic beam that a small horseshoe
magnet an inch wide at a distance of six feet caused movement of the
electron beam in either direction, depending on the position in which the
magnet was held.
Thirty years later Dr. Robert A. Millikan rediscovered these rays,
believing them to be vibratory in character like light, and was followed by
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, who proved the existence of cosmic rays consisting
of highvelocity particles of matter, just as Tesla described them. They
started by finding energies of ten million volts; and today the energies are
far up in the billions and even trillions of electron volts. And these and other
investigators describe these rays as shattering atoms of matter producing
showers of debris--just as Tesla predicted.
The electron, however, had a real existence to Tesla.
He accepted it as a kind of sub-atom, a fourth state of 218 matter, as
described by Sir William Crookes, who discovered it. Tesla visualized it as
associated with but not a part of the atom. The electric charge it carried was
entirely distinct from the electron. Electricity, to him, was a fluid much more
highly attenuated than any known form of matter, and with highly specific
properties of its own for which it was not dependent upon matter. The
charge on the electron was due to a surface layer of electricity covering it,
and it could receive many layers, giving it multiple charges, all of which
could be dissipated. These statements were similar to those which he had
published a half-century before.
The ingredients of the air—oxygen, nitrogen, argon and other
gases—though not in a compound but in a mixture, are found in equal
proportions at various levels of the atmosphere despite great differences
in specific weights. The explanation accepted in science is this:
“Swift winds keep the gases thoroughly mixed, so that except for
water-vapor the composition of the atmosphere is the same throughout
the troposphere to a high degree of approximation.”
(2) This explanation cannot be true. If it were true, then the moment the
wind subsides, the nitrogen should stream upward, and the oxygen should
drop, preceded by the argon. If winds are caused by a difference in weight
between warm and cold air, the difference in weight between heavy gases
high in the atmosphere and light gases at the lower levels should create
storms, which would subside only after they had carried each gas to its
natural place in accordance with its gravity or specific weight.
But nothing of the kind happens.
When some aviators expressed the belief that “pockets of noxious gas”
are in the air, the scientists replied:
“There are no ‘pockets of noxious gas.’ No single gas, and no other likely
mixture of gases, has, at ordinary temperatures and pressures, the same
density as atmospheric air. Therefore, a pocket of foreign gas in that
atmosphere would almost certainly either bob up like a balloon, or sink
like a stone in water.” (3)
Why, then, do not the atmospheric gases separate and stay apart in
accordance with the specific gravities?
Ozone, though heavier than oxygen, is absent in the lower layers
of the atmosphere, is present in the upper layers, and is not subject
to the “mixing effect of the wind.” The presence of ozone high in the
atmosphere suggests that oxygen must be still higher: “As oxygen
is less dense than ozone, it will tend to rise to even greater heights.”
(4) Nowhere is it asked why ozone does not descend of its own weight
or at least why it is not mixed by the wind with other gases
Further investigations concerning the behavior of the various metals in regard to reflection of these radiations have given additional support to the opinion which I have before expressed; namely, that Volta's electric contact series in air is identical with that which is obtained when arranging the metals according to their powers of reflection, the most electro-positive metal being the best reflector. Confining myself to the metals easily experimented upon, this series is magnesium, lead, tin, iron, copper, silver, gold and platinum. The lastnamed metal should be found to be the poorest, and sodium one of the best, reflectors. This relation is rendered still more interesting and suggestive when we consider that this series is approximately the same which is obtained when arranging the metals according to their energies of combination with oxygen, as calculated from their chemical equivalents
Since it is now demonstrated that all bodies reflect more or less, the diffusion through the air is easily accounted for. Observing the tendency to scatter through the air, I have been led to increase the efficiency of reflectors by providing not one; but separated successive layers for reflection, by making the reflector of thin sheets of metal; mica or other substances. The efficiency of mica. as a reflector I attribute chiefly to the fact that it is composed of many superimposed layers which reflect individually. These many successive reflections are, in my opinion, also the cause of the scattering through the air.
Originally posted by kr0ss
reply to post by buddhasystem
Where did you get this theory from?
do you have any sources or evidences that i could research about?