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From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Tesla 
Message-ID: <2442@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:35:10 EST
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In article <2436@nsc.UUCP> chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) writes:
 >What Tesla did was made what is known as St. Elmo's fire.

 >The fireball effect can be created in nature as well.  St. Elmo's fire
 >is often seen during very high wind storms in connection with lightning.

I have been told by some folks that  "St. Elmo's fire"  noted above should
have read  "Ball lightning".   Oh well I made a mistake and now you
will have to read a zillion flames on the mistake, sorry about that.

chongo <*sigh*> /\../\
-- 
If Tesla had been born in the early 60's, he might have been the builder of
desk top Cray-VI like computers running a super 4.9BSD like operating system.
Edison on the other hand, would have searched by trial and error for the
ultimate 4004 based j-random spread sheet micro while claiming that the power
of the Tesla machine could kill a programming project.  Worse yet, historians
might later credit Edison with forming the personal computer industry.