No matter how close the governing of the engine that drives the ordinary dynamo, with revolving armature, there is some irregularity in the generation of current. The engine-pistons carry it their ends the armature coils, and these they thrust reciprocatively in and out of the magnetic field of the field coils, thus generating current by their action. Professor Tyndall puts the useful light-waves of a gas flame at less than one per cent. The piston P is screwed tightly on a shaft ADiagramatic representation of double compound mechanical and electrical oscilator for generating currents of perfectly dynamo frequency. Energy needs to move back and forth from one form to another for an oscillator to work.
Though they 'busted' the idea, really they only proved that it was possible. In the intensely concentrated field thus produced, there are arranged two pairs of coils H H supported in metallic frames which are screwed on the shaft A of the piston and have additional bearings in the boxes B B on each side.
Actuated by Comprest Air or Steam Which Vibrates a Special Diafram-Coil.Now, each step from consuming the coal under the boilers that deliver steam to the engines, up to the glow of the filament in an incandescent lamp, is attended with loss. But the most interesting of all, perhaps, is the maintenance of the constancy of oscillation by the reaction of the electromagnetic part of the combination. Moreover, for the same pressure and the same piston speed the engine has about one thirtieth or one fortieth of the usual weight, and occupies a proportionately smaller space. Reporter John J. O'Neill's biography of Nikola Tesla includes a version of this story (date of the telling not given). On the return stroke a similar operation takes place on the right hand side. Nothing changed infact this multi headed entity has morphed into a whole new beast, in this day an age Tesla may not have even made it to old age, plentyhave perished mysteriously trying to provide the world with free energy. of all the waves caused by the combustion going on in it. In the luminosity of a gas flame the efficiency is even smaller. The vacuum created at the outlet pulls the piston in addition to the steam push on the other end.
Another curious and interesting feature which Mr. Tesla pointed out was that, instead of controlling the motion of the reciprocating piston by means of a spring, so as to obtain isochronous vibration, he was actually able to control the mechanical motion by the natural vibration of the electro-magnetic system, and he said that the case was a very simple one, and was quite analogous to that of a pendulum. It could be as little as 1/ 1000 and the printer could not print the number.Theoretically considered, when the various advantages which Mr. Tesla holds out are examined, it is surprising, considering the simplicity of the arrangement, that nothing was done in thisSome shrewd reporter asked Dr. Tesla at this point what he would need to destroy the Empire State Building and the doctor replied:which passes through fitting boxes at the end of the cylinder C. The boxes project to a carefully determined distance into the hollow of the cylinder C, thus determining the length of the stroke.The former is substantially constructed in the following way. 2, shows one of his latest forms of oscillator in perspective, while the diagram, Fig.
There are two pistons to receive the impetus of the incoming steam in the chest, and in the present instance steam is supplied at a pressure of 350 pounds, although as low as 80 is also used in like oscillators, where steam of the higher pressure is not obtainable. The mechanical oscillator had to be mounted on wooden blocks to help damp vibration. to the available energy obtained from the steam for the purpose of producing electricity, it is simpler, lighter and smaller than the mechanism it is designed to replace, absolutely constant in its action, automatically regulated, and subject to the least possible amount of wear and tear. Armies of inventors have flung themselves on the difficulties involved in these barbaric losses occurring at every stage of the calorific, mechanical, and electric processes; and it is indeed likely that many lines of improvement have already been compelled to yield their utmost, reaching terminal forms.
Assume that the motion imparted be such as to move the piston to the left (when looking at the diagram) then the air rushes through the slot S' and tube T into the chamber to the left.
Mr. Tesla showed a number of very clear drawings, illustrating the construction of the apparatus from which its working was plainly discernible.