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Now that I have it, my next step will be the perfect flying machine." "An airplane driven by your engine?" I
asked. "Not at all," said Dr. Tesla. "The airplane is fatally defective. It is merely a toy--a sporting plaything. It
can never become commercially practical. It has fatal defects. One is the fact that when it encounters a
downward current of air it is helpless. The 'hole in the air' of which aviators speak is simply a downward
current, and unless the airplane is high enough above the earth to move laterally but can do nothing but fall.
"There is no way of detecting these downward currents, no way of avoiding them, and therefore the airplane
must always be subject to chance and its operator to the risk of fatal accident. Sportsmen will always take
these chances, but as a business proposition the risk is too great.
"The flying machine of the future--my flying machine--will be heavier than air, but it will not be an airplane. It
will have no wings. It will be substantial, solid, stable. You cannot have a stable airplane. The gyroscope can
never be successfully applied to the airplane, for it would give a stability that would result in the machine
being torn to pieces by the wind, just as the unprotected airplane on the ground is torn to pieces by a high
wind. "My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you
would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any
direction with perfect safety, higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and oblivious
of 'holes in the air' or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutely
stationary in the air even in a wind for great length of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any such
delicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action."
"You will get stability through gyroscopes?" I asked. "Through gyroscopic action of my engine, assisted by
some devices I am not yet prepared to talk about," he replied. "Powerful air currents that may be deflected at
will, if produced by engines and compressors sufficiently light and powerful, might lift a heavy body off the
ground and propel it through the air," I ventured, wondering if I had grasped the inventor's secret.
Dr. Tesla smiled an inscrutable smile. "All I have to say on that point is that my airship will have neither gas
bag, wings nor propellers," he said. "It is the child of my dreams, the product of years of intense and painful
toil and research. I am not going to talk about it any further. But whatever my airship may be, here at least is
an engine that will do things that no other engine ever has done, and that is something tangible."
The Tesla Pump
Looking out over the city from the windows of his office, on the twentieth floor of the Metropolitan Tower, his
face lit up as he told of his life dream and its approaching realization, and the listener's fancy could almost
see the air full of strange flying craft, while huge steamships propelled at unheard of speeds plough the
waters of the North River, automobiles climbed the very face of the Palisades, locomotives of incredible
power whisked wheeled palaces many miles a minute and all the discomforts of summer heat vanished as
marvelous refrigerating plants reduced the temperature of the whole city to a comfortable maximum, for
these were only a few of the suggestions of the limitless possibilities of the latest Tesla discovery.
"Just what is your new invention?" I asked. "I have accomplished what mechanical engineers have been
dreaming about ever since the invention of steam power," replied Dr. Tesla. "That is the perfect rotary
engine. It happens that I have also produced an engine which will give at least twenty-five times as much
power to a pound of weight as the lightest weight engine of any kind that has yet been produced. "In doing
this I have made use of two properties which have always been known to be possessed by all fluids, but
which have not heretofore been utilized. These properties are adhesion and viscosity.
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"Put a drop of water on a metal plate. The drop will roll off, but a certain amount of the water will remain on
the plate until it evaporates or is removed by some absorptive means. The metal does not absorb any of the
water, but the water adheres to it. "The drop of water may change its shape, but until its particles are
separated by some external power it remains intact. This tendency of all fluids to resist molecular separation
is viscosity. It is especially noticeable in the heavier oils. "It is these properties of adhesion and viscosity that
cause the 'skin friction' that impedes a ship in its progress through the water or an airplane in going through
the air. All fluids have these qualities--and you must keep in mind that air is a fluid, all gases are fluids, steam
is fluid. Every known means of transmitting or developing mechanical power is through a fluid medium.
"Now, suppose we make this metal plate that I have spoken of circular in shape and mount it at its center on
a shaft so that it can be revolved. Apply power to rotate the shaft and what happens? Why, whatever fluid the
disk happens to be revolving in is agitated and dragged along in the direction of rotation, because the fluid
tends to adhere to the disk and the viscosity causes the motion given to the adhering particles of the fluid to
be transmitted to the whole mass. Here, I can show you better than tell you." Dr. Tesla led the way into an
adjoining room.
On a desk was a small electric motor and mounted on the shaft were half a dozen flat disks, separated by
perhaps a sixteenth of an inch from one another, each disk being less than that in thickness. He turned a
switch and the motor began to buzz. A wave of cool air was immediately felt. "There we have a disk, or
rather a series of disks, revolving in a fluid--the air," said the inventor. "You need no proof to tell you that the
air is being agitated and propelled violently. If you will hold your hand over the center of these disks--you see
the centers have been cut away--you will feel the suction as air is drawn in to be expelled from the
peripheries of the disks. "Now, suppose these revolving disks were enclosed in an air tight case, so
constructed that the air could enter only at one point and be expelled only at another--what would we have?"
"You'd have an air pump," I suggested. "Exactly--an air pump or blower," said Dr. Tesla. "There is one now in
operation delivering ten thousand cubic feet of air a minute. "Now, come over here."
He stepped across the hall and into another room, where three or four draughts men were at work and
various mechanical and electrical contrivances were scattered about. At one side of the room was what
appeared to be a zinc or aluminum tank, divided into two sections, one above the other, while a pipe that ran
along the wall above the upper division of the tank was connected with a little aluminum case about the size
and shape of a small alarm clock. A tiny electric motor was attached to a shaft that protruded from one side
of the aluminum case. The lower division of the tank was filled with water. "Inside of this aluminum case are
several disks mounted on a shaft and immersed in a fluid, water," said Dr. Tesla. "From this lower tank the
water has free access to the case enclosing the disks. This pipe leads from the periphery of the case. I turn
the current on, the motor turns the disks and as I open this valve in the pipe the water flows."
He turned the valve and the water certainly did flow. Instantly a stream that would have filled a barrel in a
very few minutes began to run out of the pipe into the upper part of the tank and thence into the lower tank.
"This is only a toy," said Dr. Tesla. "There are only half a dozen disks--'runners,' I call them--each less than
three inches in diameter, inside of that case. They are just like the disks you saw on the first motor--no
vanes, blades or attachments of any kind. Just perfectly smooth, flat disks revolving in their own planes and
pumping water because of the viscosity and adhesion of the fluid. One such pump now in operation, with
eight disks, eighteen inches in diameter, pumps four thousand gallons a minute to a height of 360 feet." We
went back into the big, well lighted office. I was beginning to grasp the new Tesla principle...
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Now that I have it, my next step will be the perfect flying machine." "An airplane driven by your engine?" Iasked. "Not at all," said Dr. Tesla. "The airplane is fatally defective. It is merely a toy--a sporting plaything. Itcan never become commercially practical. It has fatal defects. One is the fact that when it encounters adownward current of air it is helpless. The 'hole in the air' of which aviators speak is simply a downwardcurrent, and unless the airplane is high enough above the earth to move laterally but can do nothing but fall."There is no way of detecting these downward currents, no way of avoiding them, and therefore the airplanemust always be subject to chance and its operator to the risk of fatal accident. Sportsmen will always takethese chances, but as a business proposition the risk is too great."The flying machine of the future--my flying machine--will be heavier than air, but it will not be an airplane. Itwill have no wings. It will be substantial, solid, stable. You cannot have a stable airplane. The gyroscope cannever be successfully applied to the airplane, for it would give a stability that would result in the machinebeing torn to pieces by the wind, just as the unprotected airplane on the ground is torn to pieces by a highwind. "My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and youwould never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in anydirection with perfect safety, higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and obliviousof 'holes in the air' or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutelystationary in the air even in a wind for great length of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any suchdelicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action.""You will get stability through gyroscopes?" I asked. "Through gyroscopic action of my engine, assisted bysome devices I am not yet prepared to talk about," he replied. "Powerful air currents that may be deflected atwill, if produced by engines and compressors sufficiently light and powerful, might lift a heavy body off theground and propel it through the air," I ventured, wondering if I had grasped the inventor's secret.Dr. Tesla smiled an inscrutable smile. "All I have to say on that point is that my airship will have neither gasbag, wings nor propellers," he said. "It is the child of my dreams, the product of years of intense and painfultoil and research. I am not going to talk about it any further. But whatever my airship may be, here at least isan engine that will do things that no other engine ever has done, and that is something tangible."The Tesla PumpLooking out over the city from the windows of his office, on the twentieth floor of the Metropolitan Tower, hisface lit up as he told of his life dream and its approaching realization, and the listener's fancy could almostxem tốc độ đầy đủ của thủ công bay lạ, trong khi lớn quyền hành tại không nghe máy cày cácnước của sông Bắc, xe ô tô leo lên mặt rất của Palisades, đầu máy đáng kinh ngạcđiện gạt bánh cung điện nhiều dặm một phút và tất cả các khó chịu của mùa hè nhiệt biến nhưtuyệt diệu lạnh nhà hàng máy giảm nhiệt độ của toàn thành phố thoải mái tối đa, chođây là chỉ là một vài trong số những đề nghị của các khả năng vô hạn của phát hiện Tesla đặt."Chỉ cần những gì là phát minh mới của bạn?" Tôi yêu cầu. "Tôi đã thực hiện những gì đã kỹ sư cơ khímơ ước về từ bao giờ phát minh ra hơi nước điện,"đã trả lời tiến sĩ Tesla. "Đó là hoàn hảo quayđộng cơ. Nó sẽ xảy ra rằng tôi cũng đã sản xuất một công cụ mà sẽ cung cấp cho tối thiểu là hai mươi - 5 lần sosức mạnh để một pound trọng lượng là công cụ kiếm trọng lượng nhẹ nhất của bất kỳ hình thức nào được nêu ra đã được sản xuất. "Trong làmĐiều này tôi đã sử dụng hai tài sản mà đã luôn luôn được biết đến để được sở hữu bởi tất cả các chất lỏng, nhưngmà đã không trước đây được sử dụng. Các thuộc tính là độ bám dính và độ nhớt.http://www.Frank.Germano.com/teslaturbine.htm (10 / 15) năm 2004/11/22 09:47:13 AMTesla của tuabin: Tesla, ranh giới Bladeless đĩa tua bin"Đặt một giọt nước trên một tấm kim loại. Thả sẽ lăn ra, nhưng một số tiền nhất định của các nước sẽ vẫn còn trênCác tấm cho đến khi nó bay hơi hoặc được lấy ra bởi một số phương tiện hấp thụ. Kim loại không hấp thụ bất cứ cácwater, but the water adheres to it. "The drop of water may change its shape, but until its particles areseparated by some external power it remains intact. This tendency of all fluids to resist molecular separationis viscosity. It is especially noticeable in the heavier oils. "It is these properties of adhesion and viscosity thatcause the 'skin friction' that impedes a ship in its progress through the water or an airplane in going throughthe air. All fluids have these qualities--and you must keep in mind that air is a fluid, all gases are fluids, steamis fluid. Every known means of transmitting or developing mechanical power is through a fluid medium."Now, suppose we make this metal plate that I have spoken of circular in shape and mount it at its center ona shaft so that it can be revolved. Apply power to rotate the shaft and what happens? Why, whatever fluid thedisk happens to be revolving in is agitated and dragged along in the direction of rotation, because the fluidtends to adhere to the disk and the viscosity causes the motion given to the adhering particles of the fluid tobe transmitted to the whole mass. Here, I can show you better than tell you." Dr. Tesla led the way into anadjoining room.On a desk was a small electric motor and mounted on the shaft were half a dozen flat disks, separated byperhaps a sixteenth of an inch from one another, each disk being less than that in thickness. He turned aswitch and the motor began to buzz. A wave of cool air was immediately felt. "There we have a disk, orrather a series of disks, revolving in a fluid--the air," said the inventor. "You need no proof to tell you that theair is being agitated and propelled violently. If you will hold your hand over the center of these disks--you seethe centers have been cut away--you will feel the suction as air is drawn in to be expelled from theperipheries of the disks. "Now, suppose these revolving disks were enclosed in an air tight case, soconstructed that the air could enter only at one point and be expelled only at another--what would we have?""You'd have an air pump," I suggested. "Exactly--an air pump or blower," said Dr. Tesla. "There is one now inoperation delivering ten thousand cubic feet of air a minute. "Now, come over here."He stepped across the hall and into another room, where three or four draughts men were at work andvarious mechanical and electrical contrivances were scattered about. At one side of the room was whatappeared to be a zinc or aluminum tank, divided into two sections, one above the other, while a pipe that ranalong the wall above the upper division of the tank was connected with a little aluminum case about the sizeand shape of a small alarm clock. A tiny electric motor was attached to a shaft that protruded from one sideof the aluminum case. The lower division of the tank was filled with water. "Inside of this aluminum case areseveral disks mounted on a shaft and immersed in a fluid, water," said Dr. Tesla. "From this lower tank the
water has free access to the case enclosing the disks. This pipe leads from the periphery of the case. I turn
the current on, the motor turns the disks and as I open this valve in the pipe the water flows."
He turned the valve and the water certainly did flow. Instantly a stream that would have filled a barrel in a
very few minutes began to run out of the pipe into the upper part of the tank and thence into the lower tank.
"This is only a toy," said Dr. Tesla. "There are only half a dozen disks--'runners,' I call them--each less than
three inches in diameter, inside of that case. They are just like the disks you saw on the first motor--no
vanes, blades or attachments of any kind. Just perfectly smooth, flat disks revolving in their own planes and
pumping water because of the viscosity and adhesion of the fluid. One such pump now in operation, with
eight disks, eighteen inches in diameter, pumps four thousand gallons a minute to a height of 360 feet." We
went back into the big, well lighted office. I was beginning to grasp the new Tesla principle...
To Go to "PART II" and learn more about the Tesla Turbine And Pump, click "NEXT