Modern Tesla Coil Design Theory [Plastic Comb]

Duane A. Bylund (Author)

Product Details

• Plastic Comb
• Publisher: Tesla Book Co (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914119095
• ISBN-13: 978-0914119098
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,184,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent rendition comparable of the master, March 25, 2000

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Clint Torgersen (Salina, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Tesla Coil Design Theory (Plastic Comb)

Ever since Nikolas Tesla pioneered this technology 100 years ago we have been fascinated by his "Lightning Machine." This book is great for the advanced Tesla coil creator, and adds some hints for the beginner. It would be usefull with a few other books about tesla coils. People might need some technical expertise to use this book. But overall great for the advanced.

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars keep the computers far away, November 27, 2002

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DRYWASHER-BILL (LAS VEGAS, NEVADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Tesla Coil Design Theory (Plastic Comb)

Like most information about Tesla, useful information can be gleaned from this book, but not all is revealed. The more information that one has about Tesla and his inventions, all interact to educate the reader/technician/inventor. This is necessary because most technical Tesla components have to be made and fashioned on the spot, and then tuned and calibrated to perform the desired function (it's not like you can go to Radio Shack and buy key Tesla components off the shelf).

Indeed, Tesla spent a lot more time making and trying out certain key components, than making the overall end invention of his tinkering. There is some debate that Tesla was Autistic, and through quirks of nature, was able to focus on ideas and thoughts in ways most of the rest of us cannot. He probably was able to build the whole thing inside his head, and his challenges were not so much to know what would happen, but rather, how to make a physical model that would work as well as the intellectual model of whatever goal or interactive unit worked inside of his head.

Through the use and making of very complex components, Tesla later found that many of the end results, intended or not, were 'simple' oversights or side bars of his experiments, and these 'simple' technologies assumed a life all their own; sometimes overshadowing the more complex and intricate workings of the previously envisioned result. He seemed to be extremely distracted by sidebars. Working on something would spark interest in a side note or reaction, and there he would go, off on another trail. Started 100 things, finished maybe 5. but gathered data that only added to his catalog of possibilities that obviously, no one but he could comprehend.

Here we are, amateurs and novices (compared with the Master Tesla), attempting to pick up the pieces from obscure notes and diagrams, and reproducing 'simple' actions, which are anything but simple. This, the legacy of a true inventor, rather than a tinkerer, as was Edison.

Lest anyone think about journals and writings of Tesla becoming readily available, most acredited sources believe that 80% or more of his technical notes and works ended up in Belgrade, and with the last Croatian/Serbian war, their continued existence is doubtful.
Yet, with what few notes we have, our quest for knowledge and witness to the vast fields of thought and technology unmasked by Tesla is simply unfathomable to the informed. If psychic contact and all that stuff really worked, how is it that no one has taken notes and academics from Tesla? It sort of makes you wish that Some other gifted autistic would focus on electronics, rather than piano.

Good luck in your quest, and be open to purchasing all you can about Tesla, the Genius Inventor.