The Electrical Experimenter

Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought.

In this way, he writes in the Electrical Experimenter, quote, I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything.

When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete the product of my brain.

Invariably, my device will work as conceived.

Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.

Section 1 of My Inventions and Other Works, The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, Electrical Experimenter, February to October 1919.

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My Inventions, Part 1, My Early Life, by Nikola Tesla.

This article was published in Electrical Experimenter, February 1919.

How does the world's greatest inventor invent? How does he carry out an invention? What sort of mentality has Nikola Tesla? Was his early life as commonplace as most of ours? What was the early training of one of the world's chosen? These and many other very interesting questions are answered in an incomparable manner by Nikola Tesla himself in this, his first article.

Can radio ignite balloons? The opinions of Nikola Tesla and other radio experts.

From the Electrical Experimenter, October 1919.

As a result of the newest theory that powerful induced currents emanating from the naval radio station in Chicago produced a spark that ignited the Goodyear dirigible airship, which plunged in flames through the roof of a bank building in that city, resulting in death for 13 persons and injury to 27 others, naval communication officers will aid the authorities in fixing responsibility for the disaster.

it was ascertained that technical experts had suggested this theory because the big ship sailed over or near the transportation building from the roof of which are projected the antenn of the naval radio station the building through the skylight of which the blazing dirigible fell was the illinois trust and savings bank Lieutenant F. S. Mason of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, District Communication Service officer, while refraining from agreeing with the theory, said he would cooperate with the investigating officials.

It is of course readily conceivable that a cargo of cotton bales presents many peculiar conditions of resonance due to the varying capacities and inductances of the various loops.

in fact so obvious and possible is this condition that a wooden vessel carrying bales of cotton or other material having wire or metal members to hold them and providing she is fitted with a wireless station of even a few kilowatts that the editors would prefer to stay on land than go and see on such a ship One of the accompanying photographs shows how a great multitude of close oscillatory circuits are provided unwittingly in all framed or rigid gas airships, and even in the non-rigid gas airships there is usually a sufficient amount of metal present in the gondola, wires and other fittings to form one or more resonant circuits, which may cause a spark at an imperfect joint or other gap.

it should be remembered as laboratory tests have demonstrated beyond cavil that it is not necessary to have a metal wire coil in spiral form in order to have powerful currents induced of sufficient strength to cause a spark to jump from it a straight metallic wire bar or even tools lying within a few yards of a small high frequency coil will pick up sufficient energy to cause sparks to jump from them and they will sometimes glow with a vivid brush discharge when viewed in a darkened room can radio ignite balloons The Opinions of Nikola Tesla and Other Radio Experts from the Electrical Experimenter, October 1919.

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For the guidance of those who may be expected to visit Portugal or Spain, a temporary appendix has been prepared, giving a large amount of information showing how those countries can be best reached, whether by sea or overland, from the shores of England.

If anyone is inclined to doubt whether an eclipse expedition is likely to provide non-astronomical tourists with incidents of travel, pleasant, profitable, and even amusing, perhaps the doubt will be removed by a perusal of the accounts of Sir F. Galton's trip to Spain in 1860, Vacation Tourists in 1860, page 422, or of Professor Tyndall's trip to Algeria in 1870, Hours of Exercise in the Alps, page 429, or of Professor Langley's adventures on Pike's Peak in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, U.S., in 1878, Washington Observations 1876, Appendix 3, page 203, or of some of the many magazine and other narratives of the Norway eclipse of 1896 and the Indian eclipse of 1898.

Subject to these special points, no further prefatory explanation seems needed, the general style of the contents being, mutatis mutandis, identical with the contents of the volumes which have gone before.

I have to thank my friend, Dr. A.M.W.

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As a result of the newest theory that powerful induced currents emanating from the naval radio station in Chicago produced the spark that ignited the Goodyear dirigible airship which plunged in flames through the roof of a bank building in that city, resulting in death for thirteen persons and injury to twenty-seven others, naval communication officers will aid the authorities in fixing responsibility for the disaster.

It was ascertained that technical experts had suggested this theory because the big ship sailed over or near the Transportation Building from the roof of which are projected the antennae of the naval radio station.

What Nikola Tesla Says Probably no other living electrician could be found today who can more authoritatively state just what effect can be produced at a distance by radio currents than Dr. Nikola Tesla.

He has produced and measured the greatest electrical discharges ever developed by man, sparks seventy to one hundred feet in length, which manifested their influence twelve miles and more distant.

In a special interview with the Electrical Experimenter representative, Dr. Tesla said in regard to the present blimp disaster, quote, Referring to electrical or radio wave action at a distance, I know from experience that if proper precautions are not taken, fires of all kinds and explosions can be produced by wireless transmitters.

In my experiments in Colorado, when the plant was powerfully excited, the lightning arresters for twelve miles around were bridged with continuous arcs much stronger and more persistent than those which ordinarily took place during an electric storm.

Can radio ignite balloons? The opinions of Nikola Tesla and other radio experts.

From the Electrical Experimenter, October 1919.

As a result of the newest theory that powerful induced currents emanating from the naval radio station in Chicago produced a spark that ignited the Goodyear dirigible airship, which plunged in flames through the roof of a bank building in that city, resulting in death for 13 persons and injury to 27 others, naval communication officers will aid the authorities in fixing responsibility for the disaster.

it was ascertained that technical experts had suggested this theory because the big ship sailed over or near the transportation building from the roof of which are projected the antenn of the naval radio station the building through the skylight of which the blazing dirigible fell was the illinois trust and savings bank Lieutenant F. S. Mason of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, District Communication Service officer, while refraining from agreeing with the theory, said he would cooperate with the investigating officials.

It is of course readily conceivable that a cargo of cotton bales presents many peculiar conditions of resonance due to the varying capacities and inductances of the various loops.

in fact so obvious and possible is this condition that a wooden vessel carrying bales of cotton or other material having wire or metal members to hold them and providing she is fitted with a wireless station of even a few kilowatts that the editors would prefer to stay on land than go and see on such a ship One of the accompanying photographs shows how a great multitude of close oscillatory circuits are provided unwittingly in all framed or rigid gas airships, and even in the non-rigid gas airships there is usually a sufficient amount of metal present in the gondola, wires and other fittings to form one or more resonant circuits, which may cause a spark at an imperfect joint or other gap.

it should be remembered as laboratory tests have demonstrated beyond cavil that it is not necessary to have a metal wire coil in spiral form in order to have powerful currents induced of sufficient strength to cause a spark to jump from it a straight metallic wire bar or even tools lying within a few yards of a small high frequency coil will pick up sufficient energy to cause sparks to jump from them and they will sometimes glow with a vivid brush discharge when viewed in a darkened room can radio ignite balloons The Opinions of Nikola Tesla and Other Radio Experts from the Electrical Experimenter, October 1919.

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From the Electrical Experimenter, October nineteen nineteen.

As a result of the newest theory that powerful induced currents emanating from the naval radio station in Chicago produced the spark that ignited the Goodyear dirigible airship which plunged in flames through the roof of a bank building in that city, resulting in death for thirteen persons and injury to twenty-seven others, naval communication officers will aid the authorities in fixing responsibility for the disaster.

It was ascertained that technical experts had suggested this theory because the big ship sailed over or near the Transportation Building, from the roof of which are projected the antennae of the naval radio station.

Probably no other living electrician could be found today who can more authoritatively state just what effect can be produced at a distance by radio currents than Dr. Nikola Tesla.

He has produced and measured the greatest electrical discharges ever developed by man, sparks seventy to one hundred feet in length, which manifested their influence twelve miles and more distant.

In a special interview with the Electrical Experimenter representative, Dr. Tesla said in regard to the present blimp disaster, quote, Referring to electrical or radio wave action at a distance, I know from experience that if proper precautions are not taken, fires of all kinds and explosions can be produced by wireless transmitters.

In my experiments in Colorado, when the plant was powerfully excited, the lightning arresters for twelve miles around were bridged with continuous arcs much stronger and more persistent than those which ordinarily took place during an electric storm.