[Milsurplus] DC vs AC for power distribution

[J. Forster]

Almost everything today runs off AC and by extension Steinmetz's work. Not
HF, not DC, not radiated power.

Success speaks for itself.

-John

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> Hi John:
>
> I would disagree.
>
> Tesla was a college educated man and very intelligent.  Edison was a HSDO
> (High School Drop Out).
> Tesla was the first person to invent or make a functional AC motor.
> I agree that Steinmetz did a lot of the engineering on AC motors at
> Westinghouse.
>
> In his Colorado Springs Notebook Tesla was experimenting with LF
> generation and at some point had a vertical mast with
> top loading as the load on the secondary of an HF transformer.  Prior to
> this the transformer was operating at a Q near
> 1 so nothing special.  But with the capacitive load that was much greater
> than the self capacity of the secondary he got
> Q multiplication and made a wrong assumption that he had multiplied the
> power.  From here on the photographs in the
> notebook were taken is such a way as to not show all of the transformer,
> only some parts, i.e. he was keeping this
> invention a secret.
>
> There are many pseudo science types who think he did something magical.
> He didn't.
>
> J.P. Morgan was financing the New Your LF power transmission tower until
> he found out that there was no way to meter the
> user for billing and at that point shut down the project.
> The idea was for the wireless transmission of electrical power on a large
> scale.
>
> For some Tesla patents see my Toy Electromagnetic Motor page at:
> http://www.prc68.com/I/EM_ToyEngine.shtml#Pat
> and scroll down.
>
> It's said the patent office refused some of his applications and required
> him to break the application down into many
> individual patents, for example see those issued on May 1, 1888 or Dec 3,
> 1889.
>
> Have Fun,
>
> Brooke Clarke
> http://www.PRC68.com
> http://www.end2partygovernment.com/Clarke4Congress.html
>
>
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