Lindemann's light bulb...

[tao]

"At this point I would like to add one more piece of eyewitness testimony concerning the nature of Tesla's radiant energy and cold electricity. On the same day Alison Davidson's photograph was taken, Tom Brown and I conducted an astonishing experiment. I picked up an ordinary filament light bulb and held the outer screw base in my right hand. Then I asked Tom to step over and touch the bottom connection of the light bulb with his finger. As soon as he did this, the light bulb filament lit to full brightness in our hands. I was about six feet away from the magnifying transmitter and Tom was about eight feet away. I felt no unusual sensations at all, but I was quite startled. At the time I had no idea how safe this form of energy is." -- Peter Lindemann, from 'The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity'


So, I had just one question for you Peter, if you had the time to answer...


How hot did the bulb become and/or how long did you attempt this for?


I mean, that is quite an amazing experiment there and definitely awesome that you had the thought to even try that, to try to 'interact' with the radially distributed voltage coming from the magnifying transmitter!


I thank you for your time, if you have it to spare an answer

[Peter Lindemann]

27 years ago

Dear Tao,

The experiment happened in an auxiliary building next to the Integratron, built by George Van Tassel in the 1950's, out near Joshua Tree National Park in the high desert of southern California. Eric Dollard had his lab out there and I had been invited by Tom Brown to come and film a demonstration of Eric's Magnifying Transmitter. We had filmed for hours and were in the process of cleaning up all of the equipment. The transmitter was just "idling" in a mode that was not at full power.

I picked up one of the large 300 watt light bulbs that Eric had lying around. These were clear glass and used as street lights in certain older areas of Los Angeles. Eric knew someone in the maintenance department and was able to get these bulbs for free. What was of interest was that they had a vacuum in them, instead of an inert gas.



It was getting dark and everyone was hurrying to leave, because we each had long drives ahead of us to get home that night. My drive was over 4 hours, all the way back to Santa Barbara.

I just got the idea to "see what would happen" if I picked up the bulb and asked Tom to touch the central contact on the bottom of the large, mogul base. Tom was working packing up stuff and I asked him to come over and "try something". When he finally came over and touched the bottom of the bulb, it lit to full brightness in our hands. It was an extremely white light, and completely unexpected! The bulb remained lit for maybe, 5 seconds. It did not seem to be heating up. Before we really had time to even be surprised, Tom took his finger off the bottom of the bulb and went back to the hurried packing.

We packed up the cars and left shortly thereafter. I was never in the room with that machine again. It took me years to fully comprehend what had happened.

Peter

PS. Here is a picture of Eric lighting a smaller bulb the same way near one of his smaller transmitters.

[tao]

Thank you very much for your incredibly detailed reply!

It is MUCH appreciated!