I uploaded some crude screenshots taken from the film "The Secret of Nikola Tesla." I'm very curious as to the original source of these images. Who was the artist? On what were they based? From what I understand of Tesla technology, they seem very accurate (also quite revealing.)
http://amasci.com/graphics/tstowr.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tsflyr.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tspjctl.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tsplane.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tscar.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tsfactry.jpg http://amasci.com/graphics/tstrain.jpg These appear in the scene in the movie where Tesla visits JP Morgan and tries to convince him to continue funding. Tesla shows a portfolio of large-format artwork which he pages through to show Morgan what he's planning: Note well the "searchlight beams" depicted as coming from the tips of small high-voltage antennas in all the above artwork. WEIRD! Don't these beams appear to be identical to the same "searchlights" depicted in other Tesla artwork such as: Wardenclyff tower in operation http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/wardenc3.jpg http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/lightstower.jpg (And which artist created these two? How accurate are the details, i.e. how much guidance did the artist receive from Tesla?) I'm tempted to conclude that *none* of these beams are supposed to be searchlights ...and that all of them are detailed and accurate depictions of Tesla's planned devices. For years I've been looking right at the key to Tesla's devices, and not noticing it. I thought they were decoration: searchlights added by some silly artist. If I'm guessing correctly, they are AC ion beams: they are long narrow corona discharges; "virtual conductors" created in the air using Tesla bulbs emitting high-power x-rays. (Those little antennas in the pictures of cars and planes would have to have vacuum-bulbs in the tips of the antennas.) In addition, the glowing beams are being used as power lines, or as huge VLF antennas. There could be considerable AC amperage in those glowing pathways. The high current would make them glow all the more. Remember that if we use high voltage and low current, we can make even a fairly large resistor behave like a good conductor, and we can transfer very large wattage at low loss. That was one of Tesla's main inventions: thin power lines with transformers on either end! Why use these beams? Here's one example. If the Wardenclyffe tower was operational, and if a large city needed more wireless power than was available via many separate resonant loop antennas ...it could project a vertical "conductor ray" upwards as an Ionospheric tap. Gain some extra height: build the ray-projector on top of a tall building. This would be combined with a large ground rod, and would be just like a "power line," but would connect to the ionosphere layer which was driven by Tesla's main tower built elsewhere. Another example: if an aircraft needed extra wattage, it could extend a "conductor ray" downwards to make contact with the Earth (while the metal skin and wings of the flyer would act as a capacitive antenna.) If it needed still more power, it could launch another ray upwards... and that's exactly what we see happening in this artwork: http://www.teslasociety.com/pictures/lightstower.jpg The skyscrapers send up beams! The airplanes send beams downward, and one large flyer sends beams both up and down. It all makes perfect sense if we assume that the beams are conductors. Something else makes sense too. In this image a factory is being run by wireless power: http://amasci.com/graphics/tsfactry.jpg One building has one of those little beam-emitting antennas. But in this case there is another beam coming in from... beyond the mountains. The "virtual conductors" connect together, and at the region where they join, apparently Tesla employs a floating terminal (perhaps a metallized balloon?) This does make sense as follows: a factory requires too much wattage for simple wireless power, so instead a long conductive beam is sent through the air from a distant power station. (In that case, is it still "wireless" power?) And here's something that's a bit too much to be just cooincidence. Below is a separate image from a magazine article, also apparently with a "Tesla Bulb" sitting atop a coil and producing a fan-shape glowing beam. http://amasci.com/graphics/tesbeam.jpg If that bulb emits x-rays, then not only is the air conductive, but there should also be a direct conductive path between the Tesla coil's main HV terminal and the glowing beam. After all, the thin glass envelope is conductive to AC (acting as capacitor dielectric.) The vacuum is conductive, since it's filled with an electron cloud. And the internal electrode is connected to the TC. So... rather than making a 10ft lightning bolt, the x-ray bulb pre-ionizes the air and allows the Tesla coil to spew out a fan-shaped glowing beam, a long narrow corona discharge. This perhaps solves another mystery too. Tesla was said to have lit his NYC laboratory without using fluorescent tubes. Instead, supposedly he had a way to make the air itself light up. If Tesla was producing a wide fan of powerful x-rays, and if this was connected to a big Tesla coil, then this would create a large-volume corona discharge. Turn the air into a fluorescent tube! (Pretty cool, eh? We'll just ignore the bit about irradiating our gonads.) What were these AC x-ray tubes like? There's an online article where Tesla gives details. ((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph:206-543-6195 fax:206-685-8665
