Nikola Tesla - Free-Energy Devices

HIGH FREQUENCY AND HIGH POTENTIAL CURRENTS. 283a few moments. When the lime has been sufficiently heated,enough moisture has been given oft' to impair materially thevacuum of the bulb. As the bombardment goes on, one pointof the lime piece is more heated than other points, and the resultis that finally practically all the discharge passes through thatpoint which is intensely heated, and a white stream of lime particles(Fig. 160) then breaks forth from that point. This streamiscomposed of " radiant " matter, yet the degree of exhaustionis low. But the particles move in straightlines because thevelocity imparted to them is great, and this is due to threecauses to the great electric density, the high temperature of thesmall point, and the fact that the particles of the lime are easilyFIG. 160.torn and thrown off far more easily than those of carbon. Withfrequencies such as we are able to obtain, the particles are bodilythrown off and projected to a considerable distance ;but withsufficiently high frequencies no such thing would occur in such;case only a stress would spread or a vibration would be propagatedthrough the bulb. It would be out of the question toreacli any such frequency on the assumption that the atoms movewith the speed of light but I believe that such a;thing isimpossible;for this an enormous potential would be required.With potentials which we are able to obtain, even with a disruptivedischarge coil, the speed must be quite insignificant.As to the " non-striking vacuum," the point to be noted is,that it can occur only with low frequency impulses, and it is