Preface
Nikola
Tesla’s Invention of the Laser
Tesla’s work on particle beam weapons can be traced all the way back
to 1893 with his invention of a button lamp, and again to 1896 when
he replicated the work of William Roentgen, discoverer of X-rays. At
that time, Tesla was “shooting” X-rays over considerable distances,
creating photographs of skeletons sometimes as far away as 40 feet
from the source of the gun.
Tesla was also involved in experiments with shooting cathode rays at
targets. This
and similar work from one of Tesla’s British colleagues,
J.J. Thompson, led to the discovery, by Thompson, of the electron.
During that period in the mid-
1890’s, Tesla conversed often with
Thompson, particularly in the electrical journals.
At about the year 1918, Tesla apparently had a laser-like
apparatus that he shot at the moon. From studying his great 1893
work THE INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF
NIKOLA TESLA, it is apparent that the,
button lamp
discussed
above had all of the components necessary to create a
Laser
Beam
.
This lamp was so constructed so as to place a piece of matter
such as carbon, or a
diamond or a ruby
, in the center, and
bombard this “button” with electrical energy that would bounce
off the button onto the inside of the globe and bounce back onto
the button.
If this were a ruby, and Tesla specifically worked with rubies,
that is exactly how a
Ruby Laser is created
.
