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shockwaves, which initially measured 10,000
volts, with a subsequent maximum rise to
240,000 volts! Such transformations of
voltage were unheard with apparatus of this
volume and simplicity. Tesla further
discovered that the output voltages were
mathematically related to the resistance of
turns in the helix. High resistance meant
higher voltage maxima.
He began referring to his disrupter line as
his special "primary', and to the helical coil
placed within the shockzone, as his special
"secondary". But he never intended anyone to
equate these terms with those referring to
magneto-electric transformers. This discovery
was indeed completely different from
magneto-induction. There was a real and
measurable reason why he could make this
outlandish statement. There was an attribute
which completely baffled Tesla for a time.
Tesla measured a zero current condition in
these long copper secondary coils. He
determined that the current, which should
have appeared, was completely absent.
Pure voltage was rising with each inch
of coil surface. Tesla constantly referred to
his "electrostatic induction laws", a principle
which few comprehended. Tesla called the
combined disrupter and secondary helix a
"Transformer".
Tesla Transformers are not electro-
magnetic devices; they use radiant
shockwaves, and produce pure voltage
without current. Each transformer conducted
a specific impulse duration with special force.
Therefore each had to be "tuned" by
adjusting the disrupter to that specific
impulse duration. Adjustments of arc distance
provided this control factor. Once each
transformer was tuned to its own special
response rate, impulses could flow smoothly
through the system like gas flowing in a pipe.
Finding that gas-dynamic analogies and
applications indeed provided him with a
consistent record of successful assessments
in these regards, Tesla began considering
whether or not the white flame discharges, so
different from anything he had every seen,
might not be a gaseous manifestation of
electro-static force. There were certainly
abundant experimental instances in which a
purely gaseous nature, so unlike anything
electrical, was being clearly made manifest.
The manner, in which the radiant shockwave
traveled over the wire coilings in white
flimmering lamniar streams, brought a new
revolution in thought. Voltage pulses
traversed the secondary surface like a gas
pulse under increasing constriction. Until
reaching the free end of the coil, these
gaseous pulses flowed over the copper
surface rather than through it. Tesla referred
to this specific manifestation as the "skin
effect". In this the discharge greatly
resembled the manner of gases in motion
over surfaces.
Furthermore, whenever a metal point
was connected to the upper terminal of one
of his Transformers, the stream became more
directive. It behaved just like a stream of
water in a pipe. When the white flimmering
stream was directed at distant metal plates, it
produced electronic charges. This charge
production could be measured as amperage,
"current", at the reception site. In transit
however, no such amperage existed.
Amperage appeared only when intercepted.
Eric Dollard has stated that the space
surrounding Tesla Impulse Transformers so
surges with these streams that the
"interception current" can reach several
hundred or even thousands of amperes. But
of what was this mysterious stream
composed? Tesla struggled with the doubt
that these discharge phenomena might be
ordinary electricity behaving in extraordinary
ways. But did electricity indeed have a
smooth, soft, and flimmering nature? The
electricity with which he was familiar was
shocking, hot, burning, deadly, piercing,
stinging, all the attributes of an irritant. But
this discharge phenomenon