NIKOLA
TESLA
In 1895, the Niagara Falls Power Company opened
for the first time and within a year, sent alternating current
(AC) to Buffalo , NY , twenty-five miles away, thanks to Nikola
Tesla AC generators. Cities throughout the world followed suit
and made commercial AC power available to the general public,
even miles from the power generating station. As a result, Tesla's
high voltage coil devices, which were powered by AC, started
to become widely known and applied.
In 1898, Tesla published a paper that he read at the eighth
annual meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association
in Buffalo , NY entitled, "High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic
and Other Purposes." He states that "One of the early observed
and remarkable features of the high frequency currents, and
one which was chiefly of interest to the physician, was their
apparent harmlessness which made it possible to pass relatively
great amounts of electrical energy through the body of a person
without causing pain or serious discomfort." Coils up to three
feet in diameter were used for magnetically treating the body
without contact, though ten to a hundred thousand volts were
present "between the first and last turn." Preferably, Tesla
describes using spheres of brass covered with two inches of
insulating wax for contacting the patient, while unpleasant
shocks were prevented. Tesla concludes correctly that bodily
"tissues are condensers" in the 1898 paper, which is the basic
component (dielectric) for an equivalent circuit only recently
developed for the human body. In fact, the relative permittivity
for tissue at any frequency from ELF (10 Hz-100 Hz) through
RF (10 kHz100 MHz) exceeds most commercially available dielectrics
on the market.[4] This unique property of the human body indicates
an inherent adaptation and perhaps innate compatibility toward
the presence of high voltage electric fields, probably due to
the high transmembrane potential already present in cellular
tissue. Tesla also indicates that the after-effect from his
coil treatment "was certainly beneficial" but that an hour exposure
was too strong to be used frequently. This has been found to
be still true today with the Tesla coil therapy devices. On
September 6, 1932, at a seminar presented by the American Congress
of Physical Therapy, held in New York , Dr. Gustave Kolischer
announced: "Tesla's high-frequency electrical currents are bringing
about highly beneficial results in dealing with cancer, surpassing
anything that could be accomplished with ordinary surgery."
1922
...Alexander Gurvich
1925 ...Georges
Lakhovsky
1935
...Royal Raymond Rife |
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