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<blockquote data-quote="timeuniverseoneone" data-source="post: 151159" data-attributes="member: 5903"><p>Some more Tesla stuff: <u><span style="color: #00ff00">LINK TO THE ARTICLE IS AT THE BOTTOM</span></u></p><p><a href="https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/publications/radio-electronics" target="_blank">Radio Electronics</a></p><p>June, 1976</p><p>Page numbers: </p><p>32-34 & 69</p><p>Type: </p><p><a href="https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/types/magazine" target="_blank">Magazine</a></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>12-Million Volts</strong></span></p><p>by </p><p></p><p><a href="https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/authors/fred-shunaman" target="_blank">Fred Shunaman</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Recreating the past to solve future needs. Robert K. Golka has duplicated apparatus designed in 1899 by Nikola Tesla, with the hopes of making nuclear fusion a feasible source of energy.</strong></p><p></p><p>In the summer of 1899, Nikola Tesla, possibly the world’s greatest engineer, set up an experimental laboratory or station near Colorado Springs with the intention (he told curious reporters and residents) of “sending a telegram from Pike’s Peak to Paris.” It is highly possible that long-distance wireless communication was the main objective of his work there, but he was probably also interested in wireless power transmission.</p><p></p><p>Tesla used a radio-frequency transformer (Tesla coil) of unheard-of dimensions and power — at least 12-million volts were generated. He was not too communicative about his experiments — either their purposes or results — and visitors were not encouraged. (This may have been partly because of the dangerous nature of the work.) So exact details are lacking.</p><p></p><p>Today — nearly 80 years later — in an Air Force hangar at Wendover, Utah, that 12-million volt record has for the first time been equalled and possibly exceeded. The second man to generate 12-million volts is Robert K. Golka, of Golka Associates, Brockton, Massachusetts. And he is doing it with equipment designed to duplicate Tesla’s as closely as possible. Mr. Golka has instituted what is now called Project Tesla to study one of the results of Tesla’s experiments that the great scientist almost brushed off as an interesting but unimportant phenomenon.</p><p></p><p>The exact equipment Tesla used cannot be determined. Probably he made numerous changes, so conflicting reports may be correct for the situation at the time reported. All agree that the primary of the Tesla coil was of heavy copper wire (1½-inch thick) placed at the bottom of the secondary, which was 51 feet in diameter. The type of conductor used for the secondary and the number of turns is not quite clear, but all reports (and the photographs) agree that there was an addition to the secondary — a coil of 100 turns, 8-feet 3-inches in diameter, placed in the center of the larger coil. The main secondary appears to have had a natural resonance of about 50 kHz; the additional coil resonated at the second harmonic, 100 kHz.</p><p></p><p>The input power was thought to be up to 50 kW, but when the coil was first energized, it blew out the generator of the Colorado Springs lighting and power system. (Tesla supervised the rebuilding). The blowout may of course have been due to a radio-frequency surge or kickback rather than to the amount of power drawn. (Of little consequence to the Colorado Springs lighting and power system.)</p><p></p><p><a href="https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/12-million-volts" target="_blank">12-Million Volts from the Tesla Universe Article Collection</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timeuniverseoneone, post: 151159, member: 5903"] Some more Tesla stuff: [U][COLOR=#00ff00]LINK TO THE ARTICLE IS AT THE BOTTOM[/COLOR][/U] [URL='https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/publications/radio-electronics']Radio Electronics[/URL] June, 1976 Page numbers: 32-34 & 69 Type: [URL='https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/types/magazine']Magazine[/URL] [SIZE=6][B]12-Million Volts[/B][/SIZE] by [URL='https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/authors/fred-shunaman']Fred Shunaman[/URL] [B]Recreating the past to solve future needs. Robert K. Golka has duplicated apparatus designed in 1899 by Nikola Tesla, with the hopes of making nuclear fusion a feasible source of energy.[/B] In the summer of 1899, Nikola Tesla, possibly the world’s greatest engineer, set up an experimental laboratory or station near Colorado Springs with the intention (he told curious reporters and residents) of “sending a telegram from Pike’s Peak to Paris.” It is highly possible that long-distance wireless communication was the main objective of his work there, but he was probably also interested in wireless power transmission. Tesla used a radio-frequency transformer (Tesla coil) of unheard-of dimensions and power — at least 12-million volts were generated. He was not too communicative about his experiments — either their purposes or results — and visitors were not encouraged. (This may have been partly because of the dangerous nature of the work.) So exact details are lacking. Today — nearly 80 years later — in an Air Force hangar at Wendover, Utah, that 12-million volt record has for the first time been equalled and possibly exceeded. The second man to generate 12-million volts is Robert K. Golka, of Golka Associates, Brockton, Massachusetts. And he is doing it with equipment designed to duplicate Tesla’s as closely as possible. Mr. Golka has instituted what is now called Project Tesla to study one of the results of Tesla’s experiments that the great scientist almost brushed off as an interesting but unimportant phenomenon. The exact equipment Tesla used cannot be determined. Probably he made numerous changes, so conflicting reports may be correct for the situation at the time reported. All agree that the primary of the Tesla coil was of heavy copper wire (1½-inch thick) placed at the bottom of the secondary, which was 51 feet in diameter. The type of conductor used for the secondary and the number of turns is not quite clear, but all reports (and the photographs) agree that there was an addition to the secondary — a coil of 100 turns, 8-feet 3-inches in diameter, placed in the center of the larger coil. The main secondary appears to have had a natural resonance of about 50 kHz; the additional coil resonated at the second harmonic, 100 kHz. The input power was thought to be up to 50 kW, but when the coil was first energized, it blew out the generator of the Colorado Springs lighting and power system. (Tesla supervised the rebuilding). The blowout may of course have been due to a radio-frequency surge or kickback rather than to the amount of power drawn. (Of little consequence to the Colorado Springs lighting and power system.) [URL="https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/12-million-volts"]12-Million Volts from the Tesla Universe Article Collection[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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