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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Tesla
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:37:49 EST
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>I would like to know where Kevin Szabo got his information
>about Tesla sending Edison's technicians strange devices.
>This is new to me and sounds fascinating.  Perhaps some of
>these are locked up somewhere.  Please expand Kevin.

Me too! This does sound interesting.

>Keith Doyle:  If you find out where the elephant eloctrocution
>footage is, please tell me.  I sure never heard of this one.
>I have a VERY poor opinion of Edison.  And this will seal
>my opinion.

I'll try to chase it down some more.  I have the footage on
video from some PBS program (not about Tesla or Edison)
one of the 'Walk thru the 20th Century' I think.  I'll try
to dig it up and see what more I can find out.  In the Tesla
biographies, they definately mention he used horses, and
in at least one the elephant is mentioned.  I'll post
what references I find.

>Also, for those curious  about Tesla, look in your library.
>John J. O'neil wrote Tesla's biography and there are SEVERAL
>books about him. 

O'neill's book is no longer in print, though it is probably in
the library.  Margaret Cheney's book 'Tesla - Man out of Time'
is a more recent book, and I thought it was a little better.
It's still in print.

>Does anyone know if there any photographs available of Teslas's
>experiments in Colorado Springs (I have the Colorado Springs
>Notebook---it's in print for those who don't know).  But I want
>to see some photographs of the experiments he did to generate
>lightning bolts in EXCESS of 100 FEET (yes, FEET).  I've seen
>the normal 30 to 40 foot lightning bolt pictures.  I want to
>see the HEAVY DUTY photos!!

All I've seen are the interior shots from Colorado Springs, with
Tesla calmly sitting in a chair while multi-mega-volts dance
around the room.

>I suspect Tesla could have made Star Trek reality at LEAST
>by NOW!!

Beam me up, Nikola!


I've been looking for some sort of reference in Mark Twain's writings
about Tesla.  Since they were friends, you'd think that somewhere
Twain might have mentioned him.  Does anyone know of such a reference?

Keith Doyle
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