QuoteQuest“Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
"Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" an address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London (February 1892)
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Tesla, Nikola. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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