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The Death Ray
Tesla's work on particle beam weapons can be traced
all the way back to 1893 with his invention of a button lamp, and again to 1896 when he replicated the work of
William Roentgen, discoverer of X-rays. At that time, Tesla was "shooting"
X-rays over long distances, creating photographs of skeletons sometimes
as far away as 40 feet from the source of the gun. Tesla was also involved in
experiments with shooting cathode rays at targets. This and similar work from
one of Tesla's British colleagues, J.J. Thompson, led to the discovery, by
Thompson, of the electron. During that period in the mid-1890's, Tesla
talk often with Thompson, particularly in the electrical
journals.
In 1918, Tesla had a laser-like object shot at the moon. From studying his great 1893 work THE
INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA, it is apparent that the
button lamp discussed above had all of the components necessary to create a
laser beam.
This lamp was so constructed so as to place a piece of
matter such as carbon, or a diamond or a ruby, in the center, and bombard this
"button" with electrical energy that would bounce off the button onto the
inside of the globe and bounce back onto the button. If this were a ruby, and
Tesla specifically worked with rubies, then is exactly how a ruby laser is
created. Tesla refers in INVENTIONS to a "pencil-thin" line of light that was
created with this device. It is my belief that Tesla not only invented the ruby
laser in 1893, but he also demonstrated it and published it's results. The
problem with the device was that it was set up so as to "vaporize," or destroy,
the button, so that the laser effects were probably
short-lived. However, if we jump ahead to the 1918 story, which was told
it is very possible that Tesla used the same or similar kind power send a laser to the moon.
Tesla's work on particle beam weapons can be traced
all the way back to 1893 with his invention of a button lamp, and again to 1896 when he replicated the work of
William Roentgen, discoverer of X-rays. At that time, Tesla was "shooting"
X-rays over long distances, creating photographs of skeletons sometimes
as far away as 40 feet from the source of the gun. Tesla was also involved in
experiments with shooting cathode rays at targets. This and similar work from
one of Tesla's British colleagues, J.J. Thompson, led to the discovery, by
Thompson, of the electron. During that period in the mid-1890's, Tesla
talk often with Thompson, particularly in the electrical
journals.
In 1918, Tesla had a laser-like object shot at the moon. From studying his great 1893 work THE
INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA, it is apparent that the
button lamp discussed above had all of the components necessary to create a
laser beam.
This lamp was so constructed so as to place a piece of
matter such as carbon, or a diamond or a ruby, in the center, and bombard this
"button" with electrical energy that would bounce off the button onto the
inside of the globe and bounce back onto the button. If this were a ruby, and
Tesla specifically worked with rubies, then is exactly how a ruby laser is
created. Tesla refers in INVENTIONS to a "pencil-thin" line of light that was
created with this device. It is my belief that Tesla not only invented the ruby
laser in 1893, but he also demonstrated it and published it's results. The
problem with the device was that it was set up so as to "vaporize," or destroy,
the button, so that the laser effects were probably
short-lived. However, if we jump ahead to the 1918 story, which was told
it is very possible that Tesla used the same or similar kind power send a laser to the moon.
Source:http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_2.htm