In a Tesla March 5, 1904 submission to a magazine about
his transmission of Electricity without wires, see he mentions
Leonard E. Curtis inviting him to Colorado Springs to carry out
his experiments.
Google: Leonard E. Curtis Tesla
PBS story
The unmuseum on Tesla
Earthlink On Nikola Tesla
A friend and patent lawyer, Leonard E. Curtis, on being advised of Tesla's work, offered to find land and provide power for the research from the
El Paso Power Company of Colorado Springs. The next supporter to come forward was Colonel John Jacob Astor. With $30,000 from Astor, the inventor
prepared at once to move to Colorado and begin building a new experimental station near Pikes Peak. Joining Tesla were several assistants who were not
fully informed of the inventor's plans.
Tesla's experiments with radio convinced him it was possible to send not only electrical signals through the air, but power. Conditions for this
would be best at high altitudes where the air was thin. Knowing this, Tesla's patent lawyer and friend Leonard E. Curtis, suggested that Tesla might
set up a new laboratory near mile-high Colorado Springs, Colorado. Curtis owned part of the El Paso Power Company located there and could get him free
electricity for his experiments.
Armed with a loan of $30,000 from John Jacob Astor, $1O,OOO from M. Crawford, a drygoods merchant, and the unending influence of his lawyer
friend, Leonard E. Curtis, Tesla became fervently committed to a regimented schedule. He contracted for the construction of an experimental laboratory
of his own design. In midJuly, a structure of awe and mystery stood isolated on the prairie pasture east of the Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind. It was a huge barnlike construction approximately 100 feet square and braced on three sides. Above its sloping roof was an SOfoot tower
through which there extended a 200foot mast topped by a onemeter copper sphere. The forbidding omen hovering over the area was augmented by a
fence with notices written in large black letters warning, "KEEP OUT-GREAT DANGER!
I wanted to find out more about Mr. Curtis as the name is great in
aviation.
Tesla was sill under contract work which he could not fully disclose
at his birthday announcements except for how great the equipment
was performing.
ED: Youtube has TT Brown effect demos but they might be ion
effect but they might be wrong. One old timer plugged in a large
looped coil into regular current, I suppose, and it rose and wobbled
and burnt up. Back to Youtube, in a MythBuster the ion was put
in a vacuum and it didn't work. But that doesn't make it ion.
The Tesla saucer doesn't work in vaccum either, unless by
millions of volts to push the aether apart. So nothing on Youtube
might be TT Brown. TT BRown is just an official report name on a
levitation experiment.
The Tesla saucer seemingly draws in charges that surround the craft
and draws in more charges for horizontal flight. The AC flow demoed
in 1892 as published in Experiments.
ED: I didn't state Tesla definition or finding about the aether:
an insulative fluid with electrical carriers. This some what differs
with his long term analogy to sound and compressible media.
[edit on 6/16/2009 by TeslaandLyne]
[edit on 6/16/2009 by TeslaandLyne]