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Sommerfeld on Electromagnetic Stealth During WW-II
Sommerfeld on Electromagnetic Stealth During WW-II In his authoritative two volume radar cross section handbook, George Ruck has pointed out the desirable features of radar absorbers. “The search for suitable radar absorbing materials (RAM) was initiated in the early 1940’s both in the United states and Germany. Ideally, the optimum RAM would be a paint-like…
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Radar
Radar It seems to be broadly recognized that, although Heinrich Hertz had observed RF standing waves resulting from metallic reflections, it was Nikola Tesla, in 1900, who was the first to propose the concept of radar.(34) Accordin to NRL radar pioneer R.M. Page, it was Tesla who first”… suggested the use of electromagnetic waves to…
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Tesla’s Reflections on Radar and Ships Wrapped in Coils of Wire
Tesla’s Reflections on Radar and Ships Wrapped in Coils of Wire Just after receiving the AIEE’s Edison medal (May 18, 1917), Nikola Tesla granted an interview to H.W. Secor of the Electrical Experimenter magazine. (Secor’s article was published in August of 1917). The topic of discussion turned to the detection of German U-boats (U-boat…
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Polyphase Currents and Rotating Fields
Polyphase Currents and Rotating Fields The creation of the rotating magnetic field was “purely the work of scientific imagination”. It has been identified as the greatest creation of the human mind since the invention of the wheel. Tesla’s discovery of polyphase currents and “an invisible wheel made of nothing but a magnetic field” (the…
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Why Tesla?
Why Tesla? It is now common knowledge that Tesla had attempted to market his radio controlled craft (the “telautomaton”; Patent* 613,809) to the US Navy.**(11)(12) Tesla was the first to advocate the electric drive for naval vassels. (13) He was the first to suggest that electric drive war ships could be used in peacetime…
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RADAR AND ROTATING FIELDS
RADAR AND ROTATING FIELDS During the 1992 International Tesla Symposium, the authors took the opportunity to once again visit the site of Tesla’s Colorado Springs laboratory and nearby Prospect Lake, where many of Tesla’s experiments were conducted in 1899. While walking around the Monument in War Memorial Park our conversation turned to the book…
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1994 Tesla Symposium at Colorado Springs
1994 Tesla Symposium at Colorado Springs «Can we learn to think in 4 – dimensions? This, and negative time, involve dreaming of the wildest sort, with no support whatsoever as yet from anything we see or record on our delicate instruments». Vannevar Bush, March 2, 1967**** Corum & Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 761,…