Tesla Car and his nephew

[nueview]

I have read three accounts of electric cars attributed to tesla in my life and two electric boats remote controled.
the first car was for edison electric which supplied motors for electric carraiges in new your prior to 1889 i remember my grandmother talking about riding in one as a young girl this was around 1905 if i am correct but still along time ago they were said to be the best. then i read a story about an engineer who worked for tesla in New York and he said the car in 1918 ran on batteries and had a motor designed to run at 30,000 Hertz with a fluid pump that drove the power train coupled to the motor it is said to have run from new york to Albany on a single charge and then the battery plates needed to be replaced. the third car is the one most talked about from 1939 from all i have read about it it had a box with twelve vacuum tubes and about a six foot antenna and two rods that completed a charging circuit there was no mention of a battery but this point i would not find a great omission as by that time people would expect to see a battery in a car if nothing more than to start it.
the boats are just large scale radio control models as for the patents and other articles i have read using multi wave carrier signals to control different channels for steering and throttle.
mallove believed the rods were similar to what he had created for supplying power.
others seem to think that this was a form of hairpin circuit to pull in radiant energy perhaps from local radio stations.
this is some of what i know about the cars but the time line fits for the work he was doing at the time.
Martin   

[Magluvin]

It may have been possible that it was drawn from radio stations, but by 1939, the Marconi stations were down and RCA (magnetic) was up. Unless Tesla had a transmitter going at the time. Another thing to consider is that Tesla found a new way of extracting the energy used here. From what we might expect from a Tesla receiver, there would need to be a good earth ground connection. Unless the cars chassis was one that qualified, even a good amount of conductor dragging on the dirt roads couldnt possibly be conventional.
Or could the capacitance of the cars chassis to the earth along with the 6ft ant. possibly be a way of things being portable.

Magluvin

[nueview]

well it is pretty hard to keep in mind that the Borg atomic structure didn't come along until after 1910 so electrons weren't a problem in 1918 he was working for the government on radio  and vacuum tubes and there are stories that he learned how to turn off the eyes ability to see and in 1929 he was at a conference and made the statement that he could power the world from Niagara falls he had been asked about the hoover dam being a necessary project. so what did he know i once tried to build as many of his simple early devices as i could including his ring generator it made a square wave output and if wired correctly as in the right way for the desired effect it would make single wire power all it needed was two diodes and it would retrieve power from the line and one could read several volts with the meter and diodes but without the diodes it would produce no effect and the bare wire could be handled without any harm his understanding of how our world works is not common
he also called nuclear energy an abomination and spoke out against it. this man had true insight if we look at his prophecies alone he was very prophetic and very insightful i have read most of what is available about him and his work. some of his power retrieving circuits had to be insulated from ground and worked a quarter wave against a full wave and would charge to over several hundred voltspulled right out of the air he said the air was conductive above 600 volts is that why wire insulation is commonly rated for this voltage?
i would love to have this type of insight to the world of energy.
Martin

P.S. the picture is of the ring generator the rest was disassembled.

[Magluvin]

Thanks Nue
Thats awesome stuff. so from what you know, do you think there was a 6ft ant.? Because up until my post nobody mentioned it.
Mags

[sparks]

   If we have a blocking oscillator it's resistance is infinite to any ac scource that would cause the oscillator to oscillate.
I am not much of an engineer but if there is an ac scource even at low frequency and our oscillator is excited to this frequency then ac voltage will occur in the field of the oscillator.  Tesla built a coil and by careful geometric spacing of the conductors and mass of the copper he has an oscillator which has virtually no resistance losses due to the transmission losses between the inductor and capacitor in a lumped circuit oscillator.  Now about this virtual infinite ac resistor he places a primary.  If you look at his patents for wireless power transmission and forget about the generator end.  The receiver is a blocking oscillator with a coil around it.  The coil around it looks like a loop antennae to me.  Not a transformer secondary.  A receiver that picks up the voltage drop around the blocking oscillator.