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Post by Avatar on Oct 16, 2023 20:29:33 GMT
Now here are the problems to be solved. 1. It is somewhat problematic to generate the current from Boston to Washington DC, a distance of 450 miles or 725 kilometers. The potential amount to be generated is a subtotal of 100,000 kilowatts to be divided in at least 20 increments over the route. The route also requires a new bridge to be constructed over the Charles River and over the Potomac River to eliminate the train ferries. Doing that in two years puts the project cost well in excess of 20 million 1875 dollars. 2. The construction of water turbine power generator stations on the rivers shows great promise, (See MAP.), which is one of the main reasons that the Boston to Washington Corridor was selected as the pilot project. 3. The problem with this abundant hydroelectric energy potential is, as Irene Goss Davenport told Charles Brush when she placed the orders for all of those wind turbine generators: "Unlike northern Europe, many of our New England rivers completely freeze over in winter, Mister Brush. Remember how George Washington actually crossed the Delaware to attack the Hessians in New Jersey? His Connecticut Marines had to pick their way through the ICE JAMs. That is why I need those wind turbines to supplement the hydropower we intend to use." 4. Compared to the above problems; the traction engines and the power pickups and take offs are rather... simple. 5. Somebody call the US Army Corps of Engineers!
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Post by Avatar on Oct 16, 2023 20:33:00 GMT
A steam engine powered dynamo of the Davenport Type Generator makes its first appearance in 1877. The USN has to have its searchlights! Also, if you run trains at night, it would be nice to have electric searchlights to illuminate the track ahead. From France, Irene Davenport stole the idea of a lead acid battery bank and recharging station. The actual inventor, Gaston Planté, (1856) did not patent it as he thought it was a trivial universal curiosity. Davenport did. The biggest problem of reserve draw demand power for nighttime was partially solved in those areas where steam powered generation would be either absent along the route of the railroad or the politicians made water generated electricity at the moment imposssble or the wind died and a Brush wind generator farm went offline. This is the important one. It is Charles Francis Brush's wind turbine dynamo. In real history it was 1888 when it went online. At 12 kilowatts it seems "pathetic"; but consider 10,000 of the contraptions dotted across New England? Niagara Falls provided the pilot site for the vertical fall water turbine. There were already two methods of water turbine in use by industry to power machine shops and textile mills mechanically. One was the water wheel or paddle type, and the other was the vertical fall or blade screw type. Where damming a river was not practical or politically unacceptable, a diverter canal was dug and a natural fall was exploited or artificially crearted to use gravitation to increase current flow speed. These are properly called GRAVITY engines, which use the Earth's gravitational influence to move water to turn that wheel. It is the only gravity engine Humanity has ever developed, by the way. The Army Corps of Engineers has been building bridges. It has been a busy two years.
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Post by Avatar on Oct 16, 2023 21:07:55 GMT
The problems of rolling stock and traction engines, once the rail line was supported by a nascent electric grid of overhead power lines and generator capacity was straight forward. William Vanderbilt could also fund the builders (Baldwin and he created American Consortium Manufactureres Electrical) to build the standard units, off a factory floor. What he could not do, was whistle into existence 10,000 workers who could learn the new electrical science unleashed by the Northeast Corridor? Or could he? Perhaps some other human assets could be found? Electric trains require more brains over coal shoveling brawn and the willingness to try new things over "established priviledges".
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Post by Avatar on Oct 16, 2023 21:11:44 GMT
C/O USS Charleston 63 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, New York 12 August 1885 Miss Irene Goss Davenport DME 47 1st Ave, Boston, Mass BNY Madam: Congratulations on your engagement to Mister Tesla. Two like-minded people I have never met, who seem so convivially matched in mutual interest, spirit and outlook. I trust your partnership will be most productive and happy. I agree that Mister Edison is not to be trusted in any matter whatsoever. I trust Mister Vanson and Mister Fraye will keep a sharp watch on that charlatan. Let Mister Edison play with his moving pictures and his phonograph; but stay out of our combined business. Mister George Westinghouse, however, is much another matter. We need him to complete the great work before us. He demonstrates the same knack you have for taking the puzzle problem apart down to its fragments and then putting it back together to form a whole new picture. Mister Vanderbilt’s passing was indeed a blow to the grand plan. However, I believe we can complete Phase 2 without him. Mister Westinghouse brings unique talents of his own to the enterprise and will be a good substitute. As to my own work: I am well satisfied that Cramp and Sons will complete the Saint Louis on time and on schedule. I know you do not believe it makes economic sense to use combined steam engines and electric final drives, but as a professional sailor, I assure you that an electric final drive gives us fuel economies and other mechanical advantages such that we will run Cunard off the seas and out of the passenger business, even if thay have mechanical throughputs of 38% to our 33% in their liners. It is not about the throughput when you are maneuvering in port without tug support. It is about turning and backing under your own power. We can go where they cannot, move cargo where they cannot and in general that advantage pleases me. I know you severely disapprove of John Howell’s special work: that you must feel betrayed when I asked you for your expert opinion for a qualified battery maker and you suggested Mister Zachery Hollingsworth and Mister Charles Vose. You must have known that the navy had a reason for that inquiry? It is not much different for us, when we ask you for such help than from seeking out Driggs Ordnance’s William H. Driggs of Driggs Ordnance & Manufacturing Corporation - to partner with our best artillery experts, Samuel Seabury and Seaton Schroeder. We are not in the business of social engineering, Miss Davenport, as you seem to be through your applied technology remedies. We, ordinary mortals, merely blow up the Republic’s enemies and sink their ships. That is what we actually do. You must understand this about our unique partnership. With respect; Bradley Fiske, CDR, MEE USN
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Post by Avatar on Oct 16, 2023 21:15:31 GMT
I an electrical engineer by training. The astonishing thing to me, is that historically (At least in the United States.) there are two people who make the real electrification of the nation possible; but decades later than in this history. They were Nikolai Tesla, who emigrated into the country in 1884 and George Westinghouse, who sort of hired him after Edison torqued Tesla off. Why Did Nikola Tesla Quit Working for Thomas Edison in 1885? By Joe Wolin | Friday, May 27, 2011.That still happens. Westinghouse and Tesla.It is in there, where I sort of subvert the real history: but I still need Nikolai Tesla and I need George Westinghouse to progress beyond 1885 and keep the Davenport social revolution in play. For one thing, to break the 10,000 volt line transmission (100 mile / 160 kilometer), barrier; I need Tesla's switches, shunts, transformers and other such load management systems for alternating current. It is a lot more complex than handwaving into existence a simple inverter. Load splitters and tripouts (resistance based circuit breakers), are fundamentals that I cannot assume appear. I will have something to describe in the next few posts as to how they come into existence. I need that businessman, George Westinghouse, who was as capable in finance and sales and manufacture; as the fictional Davenport and the real Tesla were in assembling from bits and pieces of existent electrical engineering lore the parts of the modern electrical grid we have. Westinghouse atands up companies that can commercialize electricity as a substitute for steam engines in factory manufacture and to serve as the basis for home appliances to free up women and reduce the need for "the servant classes". The "underclasses" in my nation had no free time from their 12 to 16 hour daily work, nor ability to gain employments away from their onerous labor to improve their situation, either financially or politically. The 8 hour day, still today, is a joke in the United States. It was impossible to attain that goal, in theory, until electricity replaced human labor in the home as well as on the factory floor. It makes logical sense to me to begin that electric grid earlier with a large scale electrical railroad network as I write here. Besides; I wanted to see if a nation that started with windmill generators and hydropower electricity could be coaxed / written into non-polluting electricity based behaviors and away from the coal and oil soot that hung over American cities from 1855 forward down to the present. Our cities are filthy from that soot. Imagine where the Howell electric torpedo goes if it eventually turns into electric automobiles? Or imagine a nation with a logical mass transit system on a continental scale? A century deferred society comes earlier, because America made wrong choices in her past?
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 2:00:03 GMT
First, about this Austrian company that made the alternating current lamp, I would like to know more. Like so much of Thomas Edison's claims to fame, did he copy someone else, maybe that Austrian company? Second, if you look at rotating magnetic fields after Gramme and Pacinotti and I do not know, maybe Siemans and a dozen other European inventors, you still find in front of them, that Croatian patriot, Tesla, who understood the three phases of the rotating magnetic fields that are at the heart of many electric motors, either AC or DC, and who worked the mechanics out of those three, six, nine, multiples of three, etc., pole electric motors and who designed commutators and coil wraps for the stators and rotors that still befuddle electrical engineers today. We use his now standard designs for everything from small micro-motors to huge final drives. It was a set of Tesla modelled motors that were the final drives on the largest fastest turbo-electric ships ever built; the French liner SS Normandie and the American navy's Lexington class aircraft carriers. Those (DC) motors and electric generators, turned by diesel engines, form the heart of the current American locomotive fleet. Third, cutting long work hours is a function of access to "automation". Let me give you an example: That was state of the American art, six years before this story begins. Both models featured a manually operated paddle board inside the "barrel" that you had to fill with a bucket of presumably hot water, you boiled in a large pot on your coal fired stove or in your wood burning fireplace. These machines were "small" by capacity allowing no more than 4-5 kgs of clothes to be washed at a time. The time to prepare the machine, that is load the barrel, mix the detergent and inssert the clothes took at least an hour. Then after cranking on the thing for a half hour, the operator, could remove the "washed clothes" and run them through the ringer (dismountable so you could load the barrel) before putting them on a clothes line to dry. After the clothes dried (takes 2 to 3 hours) then the operator took one of these things off the fire, and using a dip and press technique, "ironed" the clothes. This was actually labor saving in the 1870 context, because it sure beat the heck out beating clothes by a river bank for a couple of days, waiting for the Native Americans to chase you away from their watering hole that you had just polluted with poisonous lye, and it sure gave much cleaner clothes at less cost in time and money. Washing clothes could become a weekly day long chore instead of a once a month two or three day labor marathon. We, Americans, stank because most of us could not afford the time to wash clothes as often as we do now. We found other regrettable ways to handle that laundry problem. While the point of the racism is also part of this alternative history, I want you to understand "why" there were so many Chinese laundries. The "whites" of the era, who were middle class in our cities, but who could not afford household servants, or who did not have access to a river and women who could spend two days a month beating the lice out of the clothes and letting nature's river currents wash and rinse the stinky things, would take their laundry once a week to such a Chinese or "other" laundry, to have the hard-working yet despised people who worked in that laundry render their clothes fit for wear. It took a dozen or more people to wash those clothes in the "next day ready service" that such establishments guaranteed. Sixteen hour days washing other people's clothes, was many a Chinese-American's start of life here. Think of how electric powered washing machines would have helped them?
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 2:31:03 GMT
Nikolai Tesla goes to work for ACME. Transformer step-down or step-up (1885) ========================================================= Part 1 slow over-current (bimetallic strip shape change circuit disconnect); Part 2 fast over-current or “short circuit” (solenoid / electromagnetic actuated circuit disconnect); The theory of circuit breaker operation and control function. =============================== Putting it all together for a simple control system; this involves load splitting and electric current flow management. This was a combination of George Westinghouse’s engineers and Nikolai Tesla’s problem solving, (1885=> in this history), which essentially parallels (1890s), and duplicates similar work done by Siemans engineers and others in Europe. Whose patents infringed upon whose^1 is still debated down to the present in this alternate history. ^1 Who Invented the Circuit Breaker? | SciencingThe circuit breaker (The solenoid interrupt stage idea was stolen from Thomas Edison's patent of 1879 by Miss Davenport. M.), with variable set voltage gate. Irene Davenport, who patents the two function circuit breaker, evades the Edison patent claim, by adding the thermal shape changing trip actuator, while Nikolai Tesla adds the screw surface area contactor set resistance gate to create the two function circuit breaker in 1886. Prior to this development, Edison had to be paid for the manufacture and use of every solenoid actuated circuit breaker ACME used, since he held the 1879 American patents to that idea which he stole from André-Marie Ampère. ================================================================================ Doctor Antonio Pacinotti has stock options in ACME and the Hollingsworth-Vose Paper Filter Companies. He has a large financial stake in the problem. Letter: 47 1st Ave, Boston, Mass 3 August 1886 Mister Robert Fraye, LLD. 119 Vanderbilt Park Rd, Hyde Park, New York The Bashon Law Firm PLLC 1634 K Street NW Ste 300, Washington, DC Gentlemen; It has come to my attention that our favorite person, Mister Thomas Edison, has hired Mister Lysander Hill, of Hill, Banks and Todd. You know this eloquent gentleman from the case he argued on behalf of the People’s Telephone Company against the Bell Telephone Company over the patent rights to the telephone? Mister Edison intends to use this man’s services, against us, to claim that the American Consortium of Manufactured Electrics (ACME) has infringed on his electrical patents as to load splitters, circuit interrupters and slide controllers. Forthwith, I assert the following: a. Our patents are unique and new applications which involve none of Mister Edison’s alleged ideas or working principles as to their function or intended purpose of use in the alleged contentions he claims. b. His current patents, instead, clearly infringe upon our intellectual properties and violate our rights of restricted use of the same stated applications as we enjoy under our patent protections. Therefore; I instruct you to file and legally enjoin, through counter-suit against Mister Edison’s original suit in the Federal District of Southern New York. Make it so, that he cannot legally use our intellectual property to make or use devices copied from and based upon our work. This has to happen, gentlemen, or we are all out of business. Too much is at stake. With respect: Irene Goss Davenport Tesla; DME BNY
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 2:39:18 GMT
The flywheel could just as easily be spun up by an external electric motor as an Aeliopile. William Avery, American turbine inventor.An example of an Aeliophile. No. 1884:AVERY'S TURBINEby John H. LienhardA Practical Hero Or, How an obscure New York Mechanic Got a Steam-Powered Toy to Drive Sawmills.Letter: C/O Bu-Ord Munitions Factory Number Four 1520 Capella S, Newport, Rhode Island 5 September 1886 C/O USS Charleston Mister Bradley Fiske, MEE 63 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, New York Dear Brad. We got that spin-dizzy flywheel thing to run at 10,000 revolutions per minute today and launched our contraption. We finally know that it works; because we clanged the target barge with it. The whole run took forty seconds from out of the tube to impact. Well; by math that works out to about five hundred and fifty so yards distance, which is half the distance Whitehead claims for his infernal air powered device. He has had the jump on us for ten years. Maybe if we reach 15,000 revolutions, then we can beat his machine. I however see a dead-end if we try for 20,000. The flywheel and gears will not take it. That brings me to the second effort, which we have here at Goat Island. We have tried both the lead acid and the Leclanche cell type batteries as the electrical source power for our electric motored automobile device. Neither battery, as currently made, is suitable. The lead acid battery vents hydrogen gas, which within the confines of a warship, is both an explosion and fire hazard. Then there is the chlorine byproduct which in gas form could kill our crews as well as act as a reactive corrosive. The Leclanche battery, itself, is far too fragile and unstable to be used in a projectile, either. There is a development from Germany called a zinc-carbon cell that might be of some use, but it requires permission from a crank named, Carl Gassner . He has applied for a US patent , so I am sure he wants to market it here. The problem with his dry-cell is that it is a one-use battery that degrades over time and is thus not acceptable for a reusable power item as the flywheel torpedo. This will make training projectiles expensive. However if needs must, we will used that type battery and learn to live with it. I suggest that you contact our mutual friend and see if she can inveigle Charles Brush to use his European contacts to steal the idea and make it here. We cannot afford to have Hollingsworth and Vose go after it, legally, else someone will smell that dead rat. And that brings me to the third effort we have at Goat Island. This, too, involves electricity, but this time we propose to feed the torpedo a power supply via wire from a generator station located in the ship or ashore. This is the brainchild of another crackpot of whom I know, named John Louis Lay. . It might be possible to stick a Brush motor into the flywheel torpedo in place of the flywheel, we use in our stored potential energy torpedo, and also install a spool of wire that connects to the ship and give us a device that will actually do what we want. That might be reusable. We could recover the torpedo after exercise by spooling back the wire from the spent end, and then respool it into the torpedo for reuse. What do you think? Cordially; John Adams Howell, CAPT, USN. ================================================================ C/O USS Charleston 63 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, New York 10 September 1886 John Adams Howell, CAPT, USN. C/O Bu-Ord Munitions Factory Number Four 1520 Capella S, Newport, Rhode Island Dear Jim; Have you lost your mind? Respects: Bradley Fiske, CDR USN MME ================================================================
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 2:49:41 GMT
US Navy working on TOW - Torpedo Optically tracked Wireguided! You might think it was impossible?You might think it was impossible?John Lay's torpedo.The intent in this case, as Howell struggles with the flywheel potential energy torpedo's physical limitations, is to replace the flywheel with an electric motor and send current to the electric motor, either via batteries or an "extension cord". The batteries may not be up to the challenge, but an unreeling extension cord? To quote the fictional Bradley Fiske:
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 2:57:22 GMT
What I can give you as an idea of the size and volume of the modern version of command link steer wire, comes as courtesy of the Indian government which has obligingly provided photos. Is it doable in 1885? Both wires and pull forces are within the limits of what they knew. The only question I have is about the mass. Shape of the wire: Round Copper alloys: C17200 (beryllium - copper) Density of the alloy: 8,249 kg/m³ Diameter of the wire: 2mm Length of the wire: 5,000 m weight = density × cross-sectional area × length Copper wire weight: 129.575 kg or 285 pounds. Not hard. We can make a Howell spool out torpedo with a speed of 26 knots or 13 m/s; assumming a 100 kg Brush motor of 745 kilowatt output. So why did they not? Kinking and knotting as well as insulation leakages, saltwater short circuits and the tendency of the cable to part under lateral force tension (The ship is moving at a perpendicular angle relative to the torpedo path and thus that pull force is measured in tons per meter / yard drag through the water (SNAP.). M.) It will work for a shore station launched torpedo to use relaxed unspooled wires as an extension cord. For an 1885 torpedo from a ship you need zinc-carbon batteries, for a Brush motor: or a pressurized gas valve actuated piston (Brotherhood) engine. There is nothing else they know that works before our Swedish friend, Waldemar Jungner, invents the nickel cadmium battery. That is 1899.
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 3:00:57 GMT
The Confederates of 1864 had started the fires before William Tecumseh Sherman moved on the city. The Americans of the "deep South" tended to forget who actually burned and looted Georgia first. They blamed the Army of the Cumberland and the Tennessee (Sherman's troops.), for what John Bell Hood's hooligans did to Atlanta. Finding what he found, Sherman ordered the Georgians out of the half burned city, and then finished what the Confederates started. Then Sherman decided, that if that situation was what the Confederates wanted, then he would "oblige them"; so he cut a swath through Georgia to teach them the "error of their ways". Atlanta before it was burned.After Hood and Sherman. Less than 25 years after the Civil War, Atlanta had begun to grow into a bustling commercial center for the region. Development was clustered around the arched-roof central train station — now the site of Underground Atlanta — with the turrets of the station-adjacent Kimball House Hotel, completed in 1885, being a focal point.In this timeline... NOW. ===================================================== The meeting took place in the Presidential Suite of the Kimble House. The Kimble House was at the southwest juncture of the Five Points (See photo ^^^) in the center of Atlanta. The people at the meeting were the usual suspects you would expect in the divided United States of 1886. Grover Cleveland, a democrat, and not a favorite of Irene Davenport Tesla, had continued the Great Betrayal with some gusto. As part of the Great Northern Migration, which was a chief reaon for this meeting some 150,000 African men, women and children had fled northward. About half of the men (25,000 of them by last census) had found work among the various companies of the American Consortium of Manufactured Electrics, either in the railroads, the locomotive works, the power plants, or the shipping companies. Not all of the migration could be blamed on ACME, but there was enough siphoning off of previously cheap tenant and serf farmers, in the human flight to the north, to anger and alarm the southern planter aristocracy who had instituted a new peonage system to replace of outright slavery they used previously, to rebuild the sort of caste society that they preferred. It was this situation existent, and cold brutal knowledge of socioeconomic reality within which our participants negotiated. Who were thay? a. Henry Dickerson McDaniel: The man, the governor of Georgia, was not a complete fool as Aleexander Stephens, his immediate elected predecessor and the former traitorous vice- president of the defunct Confederacy had been. He, McDaniel, wanted to help his still ruined and backward state catch up with Virginia and the states of the Northeast and Midwest. He wanted that "legacy", so that his name would "shine" in history. He had a grandiose wish list but no meney to make it happen. b. Charles Henry Phinizy of the Georgia Railroad Bank and Trust Company: This man was not a fool either. He had seen what had happened the past ten years to the society north of the Ohio River and the results had terrified him. If his "class" was going to survive in power; then they would have to adapt to the new reality. c. George Boyer Vashon: By now very familiar to ACME's enemies as Irene Davenport Tesla's personal attorney, he was present to remind the other participants that what was at stake was no less than the future of civil society as much as to defend Misses Tesla's interests. There were also two Pinkerton detectives, Chicago toughs, to keep everyone happy, and "comfortable". What was at stake? The meeting: McDaniel poured himself a drink from the sidebar. This confirmed the detail the Pinkertons had developed about the man. He was a drinker as well as a philanderer. He could be "manipulated". He asked the obvious questions; "Why pick on my state?. Why not North Carolina and South Carolina? Why not work your way down the coast?" Vashon stood. He found that standing in the presence of "planter aristocrats" and other associated ex-Confederates still had the sobering effect of reminding them that they were not in the Confederacy any more. He was the designated talker for ACME at this meeting. Misses Davenport Tesla preferred to be silent in the presnce of enemies. It unnerved them as much as it did to have the man of color dictate terms of agreement and lawyer George was so good at it. Vashon said: "Atlanta is the spoke of the spider web of railroads in the southeast." Phinizy, seated, at the chess table, where he eyed the pawn that Misses Davenport Tesla moved within her hand, spoke; "Chattanooga has six lines convergent, Atlanta has only five and we control only one of those, for oue real hub is the city of Macon; so I join with the governor's query. Besides, none of our lines link into any of the New York Central, the Mid-Atlantic, or the Pennsylvania and Ohio. Why and how would you propose to "electrify" the Georgia Central Railroad? It would be isolated hundreds of miles from your nearest electrified lines." Vashon looked out the window at the approaching thunderstorm of which he thought of as a good sign as well as a metaphor for what was coming; "We will set up an island of technical progress in the midst of your desert, sir. The Chattahoochee, the Altoona and the Savannah will get us started on the Augusta to Atlanta line. The others will be windmilled, hydroed, or coal-fired as necessary." Daniels added: You get thr railroad, if we agree to this proposal, but what else do we receive? Why should we agree to it at all? This paltry investment of $10,000,000.00, you propose; seems a bit "light" for what you want. Now Irene Davenport Tesla; spoke. She was obviously irritated. "You desire a technical college with your name on it, Mister McDaniel? We can build one in your state to teach the workers we will hire here to educate them in our technology. They will not emigrate north to learn their trades there. You want a hydroelectric dam to power your textile plants in South Carolina, Mister Phinizy? We can build that for you on the Savannah. We have to build that one to power the railroad as is. It was included in our proposal. What more do you want?" Both men answered; "A million apiece." Vashon interjected: "No!" Davenport Tesla overruled him; "Agreed; but I am buying your bank, Mister Phinizy, at my price and you are out. Understand? And as for you, Mister Daniels, you might find early retirement from public life helpful for your marriage and reputation." She looked at her Pinkertons. One of them smiled. Daniels, understanding the reality, suggested: "Shall we shake on it, Misses Tesla?" Misses Davenport Tesla put out a gloved hand and shook the Georgia governor's meat lump. After a few closing minutes of pleasantries and the signing of the assorted covenants, the two Georgians left. Lawyer George and she were alone with the two Pinkerton bodyguards. Vashon remarked: "You should have let me have them." Davenport Tesla shrugged; "We get the money back, George, all of it, when we take their bank in hand and cash it out. The governor we put out to Hilton Head where he can play in the surf and Phinizy can go run his textile mills and horse race when he wants to frolic in Kentucky. But this state of Georgia..." Irene clenched her left fist, which still held that pawn, that she had taken from the chess game table, she raised in the air above her head; "will be ours to mold. It will be Reconstructed. And as goes Georgia, so goes the South." She put the pawn back on the chess table. "Remind me to burn these gloves when we get back to Boston, George."
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 3:12:55 GMT
Some real history I present. You can guess where this alternate timeline is going, now that Tesla, a lifelong bachelor, now has a "keeper"?
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 3:17:10 GMT
Letter: 510 Bedford Street, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 12 October 1886. C/O Mister Robert Fraye, LLD. CC Mister George Westinghouse 119 Vanderbilt Park Rd, Hyde Park, New York Lawyer Fraye; Please inform your client that the meeting in Atlanta finished out the way we hoped. We have the rights to build the hydroelectric plants needed and to electrify the railroad rights of way owned by the Georgia Central Railroad. That issue is settled and should be accomplished as the core of phase three within the next three years. I credit my energetic wife with this accomplishment. Urban electrification of Boston and Buffalo, with our Westinghouse system has been accomplished. The two test cities have made nonsense of Edison’s direct current electrification efforts and I assume, will soon become the northeast national standard as much as the Davenport electrical railroad system has. Inasmuch as I have struggled with the transformer up to now. William Stanley’s ratios, still seem to be off in the coil wraps by a factor of two. We, together, are close to finding the proper ratios and should have a reliable step-up step-down system that does not explode as our current ones do, within the month. I am confident of it. I am told by Mister Brush that Mister Grover Cleveland is interested in a demonstration of the Tesla Coil. If manmade lightning obtains for us the access to government subsidies, then I will supply the “magic show”. Arrange it, please, as you have the contacts and I do not. With respect: Nikola Tesla DEE BNY ================================================================================ Charles Gordon CurtisAntonetti got the man's name wrong. This took a few telegrams to straighten out.
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 3:37:53 GMT
Letter: SES Saint Paul Delivered by Sealed Pouch C/O USPO Number 26 Federal Plaza New York; City, New York Composed in my Stateroom 1-S-22 on or about 22 October 1886 Misses Irene Davenport Tesla 510 Bedford Street, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts Madam: By now the news of what has happened off the Isle of Wight has raced the telegraph, three times around the world. As you can see from the maps, we were attempting to exit the westward ship channel, known as the Solent out of Southhampton Water. We were past the Hurst Breakwater and Fort, guiding on the lights, and following well to the north of the Three Needles in the north exit channel as buoy marked and lit from Alum Bay Light West, when that luggard of an Englishman rounded up from the south of The Three Needles and approached us out of that blinding lighthouse cone of light which bedazzled us to port. We saw him at one half nautical mile and flash coded him a searchlight warning, but either he did not know the Mercantile Code; or did not know the rule of the pass to the left; for he stayed straight to cut across us, our bow, to pass us on our right. We, thereupon, went all back emergency using our electrics and instantly slowed our forward progress. We then went arrears on our screws to clear him. We thought both of us clear of one another as we went to rest stop in under two minutes. He however misjudged our backing and came emergency left at the last possible moment, scraping our bow with his stern, he being unable to stop or turn acute enough on his single screw and rudder. He piled himself up on the rocks in front of Hurst Fort and opened himself up to flood his engine compartment. He went fast aground hard like a leaded mackerel. We launched boats, but it was of no use. He promptly blew up but three minutes after his grounding, probably from furnace fires that escaped reaching his powder stores, caused by his burst fireboxes of the collision ashore and by his over-pressured steam boilers. We had to shear off of him, thereafter, lest we join him in his sad ending. The authorities., hence here. have held us up; pending the inquiry, but it was plain, that they had decided who was at fault, for the admiralty already speaks of a court-martial for the captain for the cause of misjudgment for the HMS Imperieuse loss.. This is “convenient” of note for the poor man, Captain Arthur May, was blown up with his ship and is not alive to defend himself. Honestly; I think that the fog, the system of misplaced buoy lights, that fool of a light-tender at Alum Bay Light West and the obvious deficiencies in training, as I observed in the ship handling in this crisis by the laggardly step-to of that British ship’s company, were all at fault; for I was but a baseball throw away to observe their circus at work when they crossed our bow. That, what I saw, was in total sum combination the true facts here. But alas, we know how these calamities fall out, Madam. The public needs their villain, and Captain May will be that villain, to stand in for the many others, who are responsible and will never admit their fault when a dead man’s name can be befouled for their own sins that they conveniently cover up. Think of this incident as a prophecy. Anyhow, that is the reason for my current delay, but I have all of what you sent me to obtain. I trust, your man, Harvey Hubbell, will make good use of all of it, so as not to infringe? Miles Greenwood, ME Iron Eagle Manufactory
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Post by Avatar on Oct 18, 2023 3:58:43 GMT
Considering that Westinghouse comes late to the party, he has to make money somehow and someway. So he diversifies as the "project" grows.
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