January 2007 |
GPO Performance Photos
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December 2006 |
Mini GPO Coil
New photos of Model 5D Museum Coil
New Photos of Model 9 Coil
New Model 10 Photos
Model 7M
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October 2006 |
The re-opening of Griffith
Observatory 2006
GPO 2006 Re-opening #1
GPO 2006 Re-opening #2
GPO 2006 Re-opening #3
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February 2006 |
Model 5D
Museum Coil
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July 2004
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RF Coils,
Helical Resonators and Voltage Magnification by Coherent Spatial Modes
( A paper by K.L. Corum and J.F. Corum circa September 2001) |
October 2003 |
Coming Soon! New images of the
Model 7M magnifier Tesla Coil.
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October 2003 |
New pictures
of Model 4
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May 2003 |
GPO-2 Tesla
Coil final installation update!
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November 2002 |
GPO-2
Tesla Coil
Installed at the Mid America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas |
May 2002 |
Introducing
the new Heavy-Duty Model One Tesla Coil
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December 2001 |
Who
Was The Real Dr. Nikola Tesla? (Acrobat .pdf file)
(A Look At His Professional Credentials)
by W.C. Wysock, J.F. Corum, J.M. Hardesty and K.L. Corum |
January 2001 |
New
Model 1 Coil |
November 2000 |
Special
Rotary Gaps
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July 2000 |
15
KW salient-pole spark gap. Images of a 15 KW 3,600 RPM
salient-pole synchronous rotary spark gap with 480 breaks per second designed and manufactured by Tesla
Technology Research in 2000. |
October 1999 |
Class Notes: Tesla Coils and the Failure of Lumped-Element Circuit Theory
by Kenneth L. Corum and James F. Corum, Ph.D. |
July 1999 |
Model 2 Tesla CoilThe
Model 2 Tesla Coil runs on a standard 120 volt 10 amp circuit. |
May 1999 |
DA-1 Dick Aurandt's famous coil With
only 3 KVa input, this coil is capable of 6 foot arcs. |
April 1999 |
A modern one-to-one scale model of
the world-famous coil at the Griffith park Observatory Coil installed and operating
in the new Fry's Electronics Super Store, Fremont, California. |
March 1999 |
Tesla Coil Installation for
Public Viewing: EMI, Gaseous Emission, Acoustic Noise And Discharge Control Paper
published in the 1986 Proceedings of the International Tesla Society, Inc. |
January 1999 |
Second Model Nine Page Two
previously unpublished images of Model Nine added on new Model Nine page showing 17 foot
arcs |
January 1999 |
Third Model 10 page Third
Model 10 page added including two previously unpublished images concerning Model 10 Tesla
Coil transmission line experiments |
December 1998 |
Model One Tesla Coil An
inexpensive table top unit suitable for many classroom as well as amateur experimenter's
applications. |
December 1998 |
3,600 r.p.m. synchronous
Rotary Gap Images of a Salient-pole, synchronous 3,600 r.p.m. Rotary Spark Gap first
designed and manufactured by Tesla Technology Research, in 1979. |
December 1998 |
Ken Strickfadden:
A Night to Remember A Night to Remember: The American Academy of Motion Pictures
pays homage to the greatest High Voltage Special Effects Man of all Time, Mr. Kenneth
Strickfadden and his Life-Long Close Friend, Mr. John Foster. |
November 1998 |
Super Model 13M - More performance
photos Previously unpublished image added of Super Model13M magnifier operating at
the KRLA-AM Transmitter Building |
November 1998 |
Second Model 10 page Second
Model 10 page added with previously unpublished images concerning Model 10 Tesla Coil
transmission line experiments |
October 1998 |
Design and Construction
of 1/2 - Wave Tesla Coil Paper published in the 1992 Proceedings of the
International Tesla Society, Inc. |
September 1998 |
Super Model 13M Magnifier -
Anaheim 1998 Super Model 13M Performs at Sun Microsystems annual meeting in Anaheim
Convention Center |
September 1998 |
Model 5M Demo Coil The
Model 5M Magnifier Tesla Coil demonstrated at the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL)
Hamcon-98, August 1998, at the San Diego Convention Center |
September 1998 |
Model 4 Coil Model 4 joins a
distinguished line of Commercial grade Tesla Coils |
August 1998 |
The Griffith Observer Various
articles from The Griffith Observer were added to this site including a November
1938 article by S. S. Mackeown, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
California Institute of Technology titled "Electrical Discharge in Gases" |
June 1998 |
Griffith Observatory Tesla
Coil Images of the Griffith Observatory Tesla Coil circa 1965 and personal
correspondence between Bill Wysock and Leon Hall, Associate Director of the Observatory |