Hi FuzzyTomCat,
That's a lot of interesting deducation in your post above, kudos for that.
I was right when I posted the explanation about that photo with Einstein, Steinmetz and alleged Tesla. I knew I read something about it and that it was related to RCA. Turns out that building was the first RCA Trans-Atlantic broadcasting station, in New Brunswick NJ.
As far as Tesla being there, I gather at that time Marconi was given the priorty in the radio discovery and patents (thanks to JPM pulling some strings) and Tesla was no too happy about it. Tesla would not be there, especially with Einstein, who's Theory of Relativity he openely opposed, among other things. They simply did not see eye to eye.
Plus the whole RCA thing was Marconi/JPM deal so it would only be adding insult to the injury for Tesla. He saw trough the double-play by Marconi and J.P.Morgan and refused to help them. Steinmetz ended up setting up their generators based on Tesla's patents.
Here's a bit about mistaken identity of the person in that photo being Tesla:
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Tesla has been linked to Einstein because of a famous photo which was taken on April 23, 1921 in New Brunswick, New Jersey in celebration of a new RCA transatlantic broadcasting station that was being put in operation. Present at the event were scientists and corporate heads from RCA, GE and AT&T including Charles Steinmetz, Irving Langmuir, David Sarnoff and Albert Einstein. Standing in between Steinmetz and Einstein was a man who resembled Nikola Tesla. I, myself, thought it was Tesla, and wrote an article which included this assumption for the 1986 ITS Symposium. Margaret Cheney and also R.G. Williams in their respective biographies also did the same thing.
After conferring with Leland Anderson and searching back to original sources which included the an article in the New York Herald, and the original caption for the photo, it has been determined that the man standing between Einsten and Steinmetz was one John Carson, who was an engineer for AT&T. This photo has also been doctored to air-brush out all individuals except for Einstein and Steinmetz by the GE people who use it to imply a special relationship between Steinmetz and Einstein.
From: Tesla's "Death Ray" machine
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I'm still trying to understand this 18-23KHz range and how it could be utilized with modern tech.
Rather than using vacuum tubes and long stretches of wire, couldn't we excite plasma in an evacuated tube, and amplitude modulate some signal at 18-23KHz range to start the process? But then what, what should happen next, how does one collect the Cosmic Rays that would be attracted to this emission?