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Originally Posted by Aromaz
In many of his patents he use the word “METAL” – unless it is otherwise started as being FERRITE, COPPER, etc – it could mean anything. Radium is a metal, Uranium is a metal, Mercury is a metal. In those days they also liked to work with Cobalt, Corundum and Zirconia.
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Another example of interest:
I once saw a photo of Nikola Tesla with Kenneth Swezey. So who was this Swezey? Following that out, I found that KS actually formed the Tesla Society, was a friend of Tesla and more important:
“After Mr. Swezey died in 1972, the Smithsonian Institution acquired his collection and organized it into 26 document boxes. In 1983 the Division of Electricity, which had been holding the papers, transferred them to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History.”
Important: Those are 26 boxes of TESLA related documents.
Tesla worked with Uranium – already in 1893;
Tesla devised all kinds of wirelessly lit vacuum and gas filled tubes. He increased the brilliance by using glass of which the silica compound was mixed with uranium and coating them with phosphors. That was Tesla version of the Fluorescent tubes.
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Hi Aromaz,
I agree that Nikola Tesla could have used almost any metal material available at the time including all you mentioned and some not. I had a opportunity in school back in the late 60's to expose B&W 5x7 film to a 15cm square cube piece of uranium from several seconds to several minuets developing the film and counting dots it was boring but I learned a lot about this material. This type of radioactive material could have been used but as you know Tesla was a big safety buff from his 1" thick rubber sole shoes he used during experiments to the publics and consumers safety of his devices.
The Kenneth Swezey information is one of mystery to me after seeing the de classified documents from the FBI about his involvement in the break in of Nikola Tesla's safe with Sava Kosanovich with witnesses from the Hotel management and Yugoslavia Government hours after his death ..... friend or foe ??
De-Classified FBI file - 252 pages
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Swezey pages 6,7,33,34,39, plus..)
http://www.lostartsmedia.com/images/teslafbifile.pdf
*additional De-Classified FBI files*
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
Nikola Tesla Resources and Images
And it's funny you mentioning about the uranium glass ...... I bought some for my son last year from "EBay" from this gentlemen ....
URANIUM GLASS TUBING Boro 76mm OD x 3mm x 48"+ L - eBay (item 6100453443 end time Apr-04-09 19:57:13 PDT)
..... of course what I bought was much smaller 1/2" diameter and cheeper, was made prior to WW11 and is old new stock ..... my son and son in-law plus 10 or so friends are professional glass blowers thats why I'm so interested in patent # 454,622 Figure 3, and I have 20 Lbs of graphite to boot, just no vacuum machine yet and maybe some Argon gas.
Regards,
Glen
