Michael A. Terrell wrote:
christopher wrote:
Didn't Tesla propose using DC current, basically broadcast/produced from
thousands of transmitters. In order to use the electrical current/field,
all one had to do was ground one side/wire to Earth. The other side or
wire would be the receptor/antenna for lack of a better term.

I'm not a technical person but I think I have the basic premise right.


No. It wasn't DC, since DC is direct current. That was Edison who
would have needed a power plant every half mile or so. Tesla was hyping
"Broadcast power" which was lossy broadband RF power that would wipe out
most of the usable RF spectrum. Due to the 'Inverse Square Law', it was
impractical, and always will be.

Tesla was responsible for AC power distribution, which ****ed Edison
off.


Tesla worked for Edison when he came up with AC power distribution.
Edison favored DC for some reason and Tesla quit and went to work for
Westinghouse. When the electric chair was proposed Edison did everything
he could to discredit it because it used Tesla's AC power.

Dave N

Nikola Tesla owned a Pierce Arrow car which he converted to run on
wireless electricity.He installed an AC motor in the car, no battery
power to the AC motor.He said his car gets it's power from the ether all
around us.
How did he do that?
www.reformation.org/nikoa-tesla.html
cuhulin

Oh, I see now.I mispelled Nikola in that URL.I blame it on my keyboard.

Hey, Dr.Strangelove movie is crakin up on the TCM channel now.
cuhulin

I have been fooling around with electricity since I was about six years
old when another kid dared me to stick my finger in a light bulb
socket.ZAPP!

How do you know Nikola Tesla didn't run that Pierce Arrow car on
wireless electricity? I believe he did.

I typed that URL correctly in my previous post.It worked for me when I
first typed it and clicked on it.
cuhulin

"David G. Nagel" wrote in message
...
Tesla worked for Edison when he came up with AC power distribution.
Edison favored DC for some reason and Tesla quit and went to work for
Westinghouse. When the electric chair was proposed Edison did everything
he could to discredit it because it used Tesla's AC power.


"The first electric chair was made by Harold P. Brown. Brown was an employee
of Thomas Edison, hired for the purpose of researching electrocution and for
the development of the electric chair. Since Brown worked for Edison, and
Edison promoted Brown's work, the development of the electric chair is often
erroneously credited to Edison himself. Brown's design was based on use of
Nikola Tesla's alternating current (AC), which was marketed by George
Westinghouse and was then just emerging as the rival to Edison's less
transport-efficient direct current (DC), which was further along in
commercial development. The decision to use AC was partly driven by Edison's
claims that AC was more lethal than DC."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair

John H.