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Subject: Re: Tesla coils
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 14:26:36 EST
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In article <6824@decwrl.DEC.COM>, brandenberg@star.dec.com
> 
> > Matt Giger (tektronix!reed!shadow) asks about tesla coils...
> ...
> As for
> references, the University of Missouri at Kansas City
> once had a copy of Tesla's laboratory notes prior to his
> work in Colorado (available on loan).  
> ...  Tesla's notes from his Colorado Lab were (as I recall)
> seized by the Government at the time of his death and those
> that weren't given to the Czechoslovakian Government are
> still sealed away.
> 
> 				Monty Brandenberg

When I visited the Museum of Natural History in Denver they had 
several books on Tesla.  I bought "My Inventions", the autobiography
of Nikola Tesla (published by Hart Brothers in 1982), and it is quite
readable, but doesn't give much technical explanation.  They also had a
large book (as I remember it was 8 1/2 x 11" and about 1" thick) which
was mostly photocopied laboratory notebooks from experiments in his
Colorado Springs Lab.  You might get some help from the museum bookstore.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ