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Nikola Tesla
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Tesla extended his
idea of the cut copper cylinder to coils. From the viewpoint of
electrostatic impulses, flat copper coils appear to be "continuously cut"
cylinders. The electrostatic field focuses over the coil as it did with the
cylinders, from end to end. A simple magnet coil of specific volume would
offer so much resistance that it would be difficult to predict the actual
resultant voltage, which results without an empirical test.
WHITEFIRE
Constructing several of these, he was ready for
the test. When each copper magnet coil was impulsed, Tesla saw tremendous
white brushes leaping from their free ends: discharges approaching one
million volts! But his supply power was nowhere near these voltages, and the
coil was not wrapped in thousands of windings. These previously unexpected
voltage magnifications were the result of an energy transformation, one that
took electrical power and converted it completely into pressure. Watts into
Volts, an unheard thing. It was the key to a new and explosive technology.
Tesla also found that such coils required very
thin coil forms. He ceased using cellulose and cardboard forms, preferring
"squirrel cage" type forms made of thin end-braced wooden rods. Wire was
wound about these cylindrically disposed rods, producing the very best
effects. Spacings were also tried between successive coil windings with
excellent results. Spaced windings reduced sparking to a minimum.
Tesla remarked that the electrostatic
potentials along the coil surface (from end to end) could be as much as ten
thousand volts per inch of winding! A ten-inch coil of proper volume could
produce one hundred thousand volt discharges. In addition, and in
confirmation of his suspicions, no current was ever measured at the free
terminals of these coils. A "zero coil current" condition! It was simply
another paradox, which would occupy the academicians for several more
argumentative decades. Tesla suddenly realized that coils represented a
truly special and valuable component in his quest. The instantaneous
resistance which any coil offered to an applied impulse was so immense that
current could not flow through the wire length. As a phenomenal consequence,
no current flowed through the coil windings at all! But sparking was
observed, traveling from coil end to end. Here was yet another anomaly!
He began placing these "secondary" coils within
his "primary" impulser circuit. The strap, which connected his magnetic arc
to the capacitors, formed the "primary". He made necessary distinctions
among his Transformer components. Few engineers actually appreciate these
distinctions. The "primary" and "secondary" of Tesla Transformers are not
magnetic inductors. They are resistive capacitors. Coil-shaped capacitors!
Tesla Transformer action is electrostatic induction.
There were conditions for the most efficient
manifestation of the effect. Maxwell could not predict these values. Tesla
empirically discovered most of the rules for impulse behavior. He found that
the transformative abilities of these smooth copper coils were maximum when
the coil mass equaled the mass of the impulser's conductive copper strap. It
did not matter how thin the coil windings were. The equality of copper
masses brought maximum transformative effects. When this equal mass
condition was fulfilled, Tesla said that the coil-capacitors were "in
resonance". Electrostatic resonance.
Tesla found it possible to produce millions of
electrostatic volts by this method. His first Transformers were horizontal
in orientation, both free ends of the secondary coil-capacitor producing
unidirectional impulses of great power. White discharges from each of these
free ends had very different characteristics, indicating the unidirectional
flow. Electropositive terminals always appeared brush-like and broad.
Electronegative terminals always appeared constricted and dart-like.
His next Transformer series employed vertical
cylinders with the base connected directly to ground. Free terminals stood
quite a distance above the primary capacitor strap, spouting a brilliant
white crown. These marked a turning point in his theories concerning
electricity, since it was possible for him to develop well over one million
volts impulse power in a device scarcely taller than a child.
These discharges were of an intense white
coloration. White-fire. Very sudden impulses color discharge channels with
the brilliant white-fire because Tesla Transformers separate the effusive
Aether from electrons. Tesla Transformer conduct Aether, not electrons. The
white-fire brilliance is the distinctive Aetheric trademark of Tesla
Transformers.

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