Quote from: fathershand on September 23, 2011, 08:53:43 PM
This probably doesn't mean anything, but I find this interesting.  If you read this patent: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4457988  you will see that this guy uses a coal vein as one of the earth battery electrodes.  NS was from the same state I was born in, Kentucky.  What do they have a lot of in Kentucky and also in Pennsylvania where NS also did some work?  You guessed it: COAL.  What don't they have in New York City, where NS was unable to get his device to work?  You guessed it: COAL.

My conjecture is that since COAL is very high in carbon, it would follow that maybe the earth's currents might flow readily through it.  This might be the cause of NS claims of high energy flow in the earth battery used in KY.

What think ye?

Interesting thoughts.  I live in Kentucky about 1.5 hours east of his old farm.  Not too much coal over there BUT, who knows how much lies waaaaay down that has not been discovered yet?  Interesting theory.

My question to this is...then how did he make what turned out to be the first ship to shore phone or radio call from the Potomac river in DC if coal, or some form of carbon in the ground was required?  In this case, there was no "ground" as it were, just river water.

Of course, the ground conditions under the river may have played a part...who knows?  We may never know.

I still see so many similarities between this device and Kapanadze's.  Pumping amps out of the ground.  There must be some connection in there somewhere.

Bill

Pirate, It has been a long time since I read the account of Stubblefields ship to shore radio experiment. I am foggy on the power supply aspect of what he did. As far as the transmission of a signal through the water, obviously no problem either sending or recieving. (these old inventors did it by air, by sea, and by land) Same concept in all three just different circuit construction to deal with the media they were transmitting through.

QuoteA dipole is a dipole

But can be in the form of an electric dipole,magnetic dipole,or an acoustic dipole.
It would seem to me the ground currents would be the magnetic dipole or oscillating acoustic dipole. I wonder if you could discern between these with experiments with an earth battery for the predominate one. With an
oscillating electric field generating an oscillating magnetic field,and an oscillating magnetic field generating an oscillating electric field that might be tough.

Started construction on my first Stubblefield coil since late 2009. It will be a smaller unit designed for specific tests / experiments only. I'll scale up when I have learned what is required. Core is a long iron bolt, nothing fancy. Wrapped around it is battery grade polypropylene (water permeable) seperator paper. Winding layer #1 is on. Another layer of seperator paper. Winding layer #2 is on. As far as the wires, my special manufactured 18ga copper w/ water permeable nylon weave insulation was used in addition to bare 16ga iron. The outer diameters are near equal so windings are real uniform. I was generous in my seperator paper thickness, about 1/2 the thickness of the wires. I am still debating on how many primary winding layers I will put on. I'll sleep on it. I should have the primary finished tomorrow.

The NS patent shows 5 coil layers. That's what I would do.