Tesla,+Nikola+5

MY macroscopic particles beam otherwise known as the "Peace Ray" and "Teleforce”. I based upon a large Van de Graaff generator of unique design and a special type of open ended vacuum tube, comprised a system for the acceleration of very small charged metallic particles to prodigiously high velocity, about 48 times the speed of sound. The particles were projected out of the tube by means of electro-static repulsion. I intended on using it for national defense. The tube was designed to project a single row of highly charged particles. There would be no dispersion whatever, even at great distance. Since the cross section of the carriers might be reduced to almost microscopic dimensions, an immense concentration of energy, practically irrespective of distance, could be attained.

There were 4 methods to using my invention: 1) A method and apparatus for producing rays and other manifestations of energy in free air, eliminating the high vacuum necessary at present for the production of such rays and beams. This is accomplished with a novel form of high vacuum tube, one end of which is open to the atmosphere. The projectiles are accelerated in a vacuum and then conducted into the atmosphere through a valvular conduit. 2) A method and process for producing very great electrical force in the range of 60,000,000 volts to propel the particles to their objective. I specified that this could be done with a large electrostatic generator on a new principle and of very great power, in many respects similar to a Van de Graaff generator. In place of a charge-carrying belt it employs a circulating stream of desiccated air that is propelled through a hermetically sealed ductwork by my disc blower. A Wardenclyffe type apparatus could also be used for this purpose. 3) A method for amplifying this process in the second invention. The exterior of the high potential terminal is equipped with numerous bulbs of some insulating material each containing, “an electrode of thin metal sheet suitably rounded” and “exhausted to the highest vacuum obtainable.” 4) A new method for producing a tremendous electrical repelling force in the form of “provisions for imparting to a minute particle an extremely high charge.” It appears this refers to the internal conducting component (the socket and central extension) at the base of the projector or gun element of the system while the specific details about this aspect of the design are not readily apparent, it seems that strict attention to the fulfillment of requirements 1, 2 and 3 is critical to success. I say by the application of my discoveries it is possible to increase the force of repulsion more than a million times and what was heretofore impossible is rendered easy of accomplishment. In 1940 I estimated that each station would cost no more than $2,000,000 and could have been constructed in a few months.