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| Keywords: Nikola Tesla in laboratorul sau din Colorado Springs.jpg File Nikola Tesla with his equipment Wellcome M0014782 jpg ro Colorado Springs in jurul anului 1900 Perhaps the most famous photograph of Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla in his laboratory in Colorado Springs around 1899 supposedly sitting reading next to his giant magnifying transmitter high voltage generator while the machine produced huge bolts of electricity The photo was a PR stunt; a double exposure and Tesla was not in the room while the machine was operating During 1899-1900 Tesla built this laboratory and researched wireless transmission of electric power The Magnifying Transmitter one of the largest Tesla coils ever built with input power of 150 kW could produce potential of around 12 million volts at a frequency of about 150 kHz creating 130 ft lightning bolts as shown When he first turned it on the machine blew out the Colorado Springs power company's generator The original image without Tesla appears in his magazine article http //www teslauniverse com/nikola-tesla-article-the-problem-of-increasing-human-energy Nikola Tesla The Problem of Increasing Human Energy Century Magazine The Century Co New York June 1900 fig 8 The note accompanying the image Fig 8 - The coil partly shown in the photograph creates an alternative movement of electricity from the earth into a large reservoir and back at a rate of one hundred thousand alternations per second The adjustments are such that the reservoir is filled full and bursts at each alternation just at the moment when the electrical pressure is maximum The discharge escapes with a deafening noise striking at an unconnected coil twenty two feet away and creating such a commotion of electricity in the earth that sparks an inch long can be drawn from a water main at a distance of three hundred feet from the laboratory 1900 The original image without Tesla appears in http //www teslauniverse com/nikola-tesla-article-the-problem-of-increasing-human-energy Nikola Tesla The Problem of Increasing Human Energy Century Magazine The Century Co New York June 1900 fig 8 Dickenson L Alley Century Magazine photographer Nikola Tesla with his equipment Wellcome M0014782 jpg<br/> Tesla colorado jpg<br/> Tesla colorado adjusted jpg cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Nikola Tesla Pictures of Tesla's inventions | ||||
