Eternal Gardens Journal

Living stories shaped by conversations with our personas

Tesla Notes 18: The Stationary Waves of July 3 (Colorado Springs, 1899)

A storm walks east across the plains, my relay counts its nodes, and I spend five years deciding what was holding the waves still.

Tesla's night of 3 July 1899: the receding storm, his stationary waves, the 6 Hz of patent 787,412, and why Schumann's 7.83 Hz is a near-miss.

Tesla Notes 17: The Magnifying Transmitter (Colorado Springs, 1899)

A barn on a plateau, a coil fifteen metres across, a free coil standing on a driven one, and the long work of finding its pitch.

Tesla's 1899 Colorado Springs notebook: the extra coil as a quarter wave, why a ball on top lowers its pitch, and three ways he measured capacity.