cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (06/10/85)
Ok, I have read with interest the various postings on how one goes about building a jacobs ladder, and no I have never built one. I only recently discoverd Tesla's work and it would seem our library system has been systematically purged of all references that aren't 100% content free. In one such reference (a biography) mention is made of the "carbon button lamp" where a piece of material in a clear glass globe is brought to a high potential. The electrons begin to oscillate between the material and the glass and small streams of plasma are set up as a result. This sounds a LOT like something I saw at the Consumers Electronics Show called an "Orb" Now I want to build one and I can't find any reasonable desription of the thing. (as to what was grounded, charged, etc.) Any clues from the large HV crowd out there? --Chuck -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}