Absolutely! I know all about it. The so called Tunguska event and tesla's death ray, Wardenclyffe operation, etc., are totally, absolutely and irrevocably unrelated. Tesla's death ray is a much touted, never built, never tested item.
More fantasy than fact. The tale of the weapon has been woven carefully into a tale of many facets by hungry, uninformed, overbearing, deluded and idiot writers. As the years spin on so do the additional yarns with improved and diverse embellishments.
The Corums (decent Tesla researchers) deduced that it was conceived by Tesla as a crude form of particle beam weapon, but again, that was speculation based on a few drawings from the 30s. They expounded on the possibilities of the device at an old ITS conference in Colorado Springs.
On the above I am quite clear. I have worked as a Tesla researcher over the past 13 years and have brought the Tesla Magnifier back from the dead as a viable and workable tesla coil builders tool. ( I also wrote and published a book on the Colorado Springs period)
I have worked with and discussed numerous historical events with Leland Anderson (greatest living Tesla Historian) over the years, both over the phone and in person. I have a decent handle on the realities of Tesla's life and no book has ever been written about him that wasn't just loaded to the gills with un-substantiated hype and hyperbole.
Too bad, He was a fascinating and complicated man who deserved better than what he got, but is credited with much more than he did. If only we could take some of the lies told about Tesla and transfer and reverse that negative aspect to additional positive truths not well known about Philo T. Farnsworth.
Richard Hull
Created on Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:50 AM EDT by Richard Hull