Radiant energy circuit

BASIC RADIANT ENERGY CIRCUIT On January 1st, 1954 Carl Betz drew this circuit from memory after visiting Moray’s lab and seeing patent drawings that were never filed. The circuit that you see here is a high voltage circuit. The radiant energy detector is nothing more or less than a high voltage diode. Energy received from…

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Early Magnetron

The Electron~Valve Converter A Vacuum Tube with Filament Currents of 4400 amp. And Plate Voltage of 200,000 Volts by William Grunstein, E.E. for The Experimenter – January 1925 p. 186 & 201 As our industrial civilization grows in complexity, power generated at a convenient location must be transmitted to more and more distant places. At…

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Make your own fuel cell

A FUEL cell kit which produces electricity by chemical reaction is now being produced by Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. The kit assembles in five minutes and operates on a mixture of sodium hydroxide (lye), hydrogen peroxide (bleach) and methyl alcohol. This solution produces enough current to run a small electric motor. The cell has…

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Chemalloy

CHEMALLOY – A New Alloy for the Science Student Chemalloy Was Developed in 1951 as a fluxless aluminum solder alloy, by combining zinc and lead in the presence of raw muriatic acid, at a temperature of 1500° F. Originally explosive, today the process is reduced to violent boiling and prolonged to five minutes, by the…

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Wireless electrical power transmission

Wireless Transmission of Power now possible by Thomas W. Benson for Electrical Experimenter, March 1920 Recent developments tend to fulfill the old, old dream of power transmission without wires. For years men have labored in vain to transmit power without wires and thus solve a myriad of transportation problems, such as a propelling vehicles, ships,…

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