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| ⚫ | * "''Tesla's Ray''". ], ], ]. | ||
| ⚫ | * Viereck, George Sylvester, "''A Machine To End War''" (by Nikola Tesla). Liberty, ], ]. | ||
| ⚫ | * "''Nikola Tesla's Teleforce & Telegeodynamics Proposals''". ], ]. | ||
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"I have made recent discoveries of inestimable value which are referred in the marked passage of the clipping enclosed ... . The flying machine has completely demoralized the world, so much that in some cities, as London and Paris, people are in mortal fear from aerial bombing. The new means I have perfected afford absolute protection against this and other forms of attack." - Nikola Tesla
Teleforce refers to Nikola Tesla's macroscopic particle beam projector, first mentioned in the New York Sun, July 10, 1934. The device, reportedly, is based upon a large Van de Graaff generator of unique design and a special type of open-ended vacuum tube, comprising a system for the acceleration of very small charged metallic particles to prodigiously high velocity (about 48 times the speed of sound, according to Tesla). The particles were projected out of the tube by means of electrostatic repulsion. As can be seen from Tesla's words written in a letter to J. P. Morgan, Jr. on November 29, 1934 it was intended for use in national defense. The tube was designed to project a single row of highly charged particles, and there would be no dispersion whatever even at great distance (according to Tesla). Since the cross section of the wave carriers might be reduced to almost microscopic dimensions, an immense concentration of energy, practically irrespective of distance, could be attained.
References
- "On Roentgen Rays". Electrical Review, New York, March 11, 1896.
- "Electro-static Generators". Scientific American, March 1934.
- "Tesla Invents Peace Ray". New York Sun, July 10, 1934.
- "Tesla's Ray". Time, July 23, 1934.
- Viereck, George Sylvester, "A Machine To End War" (by Nikola Tesla). Liberty, February, 1935.
- "Nikola Tesla's Teleforce & Telegeodynamics Proposals". Twenty First Century Books, 1998.
This article or an earlier version based on text from Twenty First Century Books' Tesla FAQ, submitted to this encyclopedia by the original author.