In the architecture of the past, structures in the form of spiers were very often used. Spiers were widespread in the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. Official explanation: Reflecting the general desire of the time to increase the height of temples. On the one hand, the high spiers made the cathedral more visible from afar, on the other hand, they symbolized the aspiration upward, towards God. Bell towers of cathedrals were most often completed with spiers.
But does everyone imagine how complex the structure of the spire is, made (and previously designed, calculated) in the past? This is not the use of modern materials with reinforcement … purely practical is an absolute absurdity. Difficult, expensive and not clear why!
After watching this video:
thoughts appeared that I will try to express. I do not know if the transmitting antenna is working on the video. Most likely not, and we see atmospheric electricity in action with the superposition of a modulated signal from radio stations. Who remembers the circuit diagram of a detector radio (without batteries)?
After all, it works only on the energy of radio waves (as the textbook on radio electronics says). But it needs a large external and tall antenna and good grounding. In childhood, I collected something like that. But since there were no powerful radio stations nearby, it was only possible to listen to the radio station of the neighboring timber industry.
Maybe the signal of the radio station is just an imposition on the received energy using this simple scheme?
Let's go further. Could it be that in the very recent past they actively used the physical principles of generating electricity and even some principles of radio communication? Fantastic? Let’s reason …
Promotional video:
Notre dame cathedral
Here is the answer, why is there a purely spire here? Can the building look as good aesthetically as possible without it? I think it can.
What if, by analogy with the video, the spiers are a device for generating electricity? For lighting, for heating. For communication.
It is possible that these spiers were used to obtain electricity using the potential difference at different heights. They say that the potential difference between the ground and our nose is about 200 volts, but due to the constant discharge and ionization of the air around us, we are not shocked.
More about this:
Our planet is electrically like a spherical capacitor, charged to about 300,000 volts. The inner sphere - the surface of the Earth - is negatively charged, the outer sphere - the ionosphere - positively. The Earth's atmosphere serves as an insulator.
Ionic and convective condenser leakage currents constantly flow through the atmosphere, reaching many thousands of amperes. But despite this, the potential difference between the capacitor plates does not decrease.
This means that in nature there is a generator (G), which constantly replenishes the leakage of charges from the capacitor plates. Such a generator is the Earth's magnetic field, which rotates with our planet in the flow of the solar wind.
Connecting to the negative pole - Earth - is easy. To do this, it is enough to make a reliable grounding. Connection to the positive pole of the generator - the ionosphere - is a complex technical problem.
As with any charged capacitor, there is an electric field in our global capacitor. The intensity of this field is distributed very unevenly along the height: it is maximum at the surface of the Earth and is approximately 150 V / m. With height, it decreases approximately according to the exponential law and at an altitude of 10 km is about 3% of the value at the Earth's surface.
As you can see, the idea of obtaining electrical energy from a potential difference at different heights exists. Nature itself tells us this regularly when we see lightning and hear thunder. This is a breakdown of the dielectric (atmospheric air). Moreover, we know little about atmospheric electricity.
Here is one of the attempts to obtain atmospheric electricity:
The total charge of the system is neutral, however, the highest electric field strength is concentrated at the tip of the conductor. This circuit requires a transformer - a conductor of electrons to the atmosphere. And there is such a miracle - Tesla coils. If excess electrons are directed into the atmosphere using corona discharges, or a plasma arc or something else of the same plasma, the electrons will leave the surface of the conductor and pass into the atmosphere through the air, how.
Quite simplified - with a corona discharge at the top of this pillar we connect the plates of the "condenser", the plasma arc is the same conductor that can connect the negatively charged metal of the grounded conductor with a positively charged atmosphere … a living example is lightning striking a lightning rod.
Power stations-pillars with tesla generators on the tops, reaching hundreds of meters in height - looks futuristic, technocratic and canonical!
So the same has already happened in the past! We can see this in the structures of the spiers:
Now we are just playing it, not fully understanding how it works and how it can really be used.
On the use of all this in temples and churches:
Can you see vertical iron tires going up to the dome? Grounding, lightning protection? Why multiple tires and why do they go inside the walls?
This is clearly not reinforcement and not tightening the walls of the temple!
Unconvincing dome screeds or reinforcement.
Here the tires also run vertically along the walls.
"Faraday grid" for parishioners. Shielding?
Photo by: pavleg.livejournal.com
Could these "buses" be part of a device that generated electricity and also had a function for communication? If so, who are you? Maybe the Gods or the Creator broadcast at certain frequencies. But we do not hear their voices, because do not know how to modulate a signal? Maybe it is not amplitude modulation, not phase, or even phase-amplitude? And the ancient keepers of the temples knew the principle and, perhaps, had this device: an altar, an ark, etc.? Just guesswork. But symbolism and cult - it remains only now. Previously, all this was endowed with meaning and functionality!
One more thought about using atmospheric electricity. What if the temples carried the function of a "doctor". It is known that if the cell membranes have a powerful negative charge, then no virus can penetrate (even join the cell). Inside the temples there was a "recharge", the polarization of the organism. A person consists almost entirely of water - his water turned into living water, receiving a negative ORP (oxidation-reduction potential). Erythrocytes broke apart, metabolism improved, etc. And this is now called goodness … Physics and biochemistry and no mysticism and religious fanaticism!
Pillars
Could it be that the pillars in the squares worked the same way on the principle of spiers?
And now it is symbolism and a tribute to fashion?
Looking at this, consciousness is trying to grasp the invisible meaning in all this. Buildings with columns in a semicircle, in the center - a stele (electrode).
I recall the information about N. Tesla, about the names of hundreds of scientists of the XIX-XX centuries, who studied the ether. Maybe they were just trying to rediscover the methods of obtaining electricity for free? Everything was known long before the turn of science on the rails of the theories of relativity, modern electrodynamics and electrostatics.
Another example from our time. Do you know that at electrical substations with the help of various electrical devices they struggle with the resonance that occurs in power lines? This area of operation of electrical circuits in resonance modes is not studied at all (maybe only by enthusiasts). I read that this is the basis of N. Tesla's idea of extracting electricity “from the air”. The energy around us is limitless, you just need to find a way to take the necessary part for yourself with simple devices. But our world is plunging into energy monopolies, building nuclear power plants, hydroelectric power plants, thermal power plants. And the inhabitants are instilled in the idea that energy can only be like this. And the ancestors probably laugh at us …
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From the official history, everyone knows that the large-scale use of electricity until the end of the 19th century. did not have. There were research, amateur and academic developments and in the 18th century. But this was only a preparation for the energy revolution that happened later. In the first part of this topic, I touched on the possible error of these ideas about our past. Let's continue…
Let's continue our "acquaintance" with the use of atmospheric electricity. Here in the picture there are clearly not religious symbols of Islam on the tower. What then? Antennas? Lightning rods?
Inside one of the temples in Cairo, sometime between 1848 and 1852
Photo: vaduhan-08.livejournal.com
See the metal structure on top of the stupa? Thinking about decoration?
And these are not isolated cases:
An example from our buildings:
Pay attention to the frame of the bell tower dome. But why it was made (and is made) of metal (and sheathed with gold) is a separate question. From it there are more tires going inside. My opinion on temples is that goodness is created: in the electrostatic field, a person feels differently. Sometimes he gets well after prayer. And this is passed off as the descent of the spirit of the saint. No, a positive message is also good, but you need to know the mechanism of this.
Bloggers pro_vladimir and dmitrijan suggested that this tower is an electric separator. Static electricity is created, in the field of which, for example, different sizes of seeds are scattered into fractions.
And many such towers were sketched:
These structures on the towers still exist:
I don’t think it’s a butophoria or a cargo cult even now. It is possible that they are now inoperative.
Now let's move on to the generators:
There are prayer drums like this in the east
And there are such
Some are attached to be spun by the wind
Or spinning a stream of water. Agree, it looks too much like a cargo cult. Aboriginal people once saw the remnants (or even operating) installations. They could not understand the meaning, but imitation of the unknown worked. Isn't it a dynamo?
There are some clues to the manufacturability of the inhabitants of the past in our territory, in Russia:
This is the Tobolsk Kremlin
In the gully of this hill stands such a building with two arches at the base.
On the reverse side, such high walls approach it.
And they have a lot of tires. Such a number of grounding conductors is clearly superfluous. But then why are there so many?
The Tobolsk complex is also a place of anomalous natural phenomena. The fact is that the mountain on which it is built is called Altyk-Aginak, which in translation from Tatar means - throwing out golden sparks. In the old Kungur chronicle there are records of how local residents saw pillars of fire on the sacred mountain, beating with light into the sky. There are also Russian historical documents describing these phenomena.
The Kelvin dropper is an electrostatic voltage generator. This extremely simple device provides an electrical voltage of the order of 10 kV. The device is a pair of metal cans, each of which is connected to a metal tube suspended above another can, from the holes of which water drips.
What if there was a spring on this flat mountain, a source of water with a fairly large debit. Our not bad ancestors adapted this flow of water to obtain a sufficiently large voltage on the Leiden banks (condensers). Which were sometimes discharged through a spark breakdown (when electricity was not needed). And that is why outside observers saw sparks here on the mountain.
Or another option. The flow of water was not so weak and was driving the electrophoretic machine. You don't need much effort to rotate it. It does not exhibit a counter-electromotive force like modern electric generators.
But later, it was all broken up and forgotten.
Electrophoric machine
Leiden bank - primitive capacitor
Columns use case. Getting electricity and using it in lighting a public, frontal place through gas-discharge lamps.
Has anyone thought about how such illumination was created before the official use of electricity and even more so lighting?
Peter and Paul Fortress in lighting lamps
And here in the background
Here are illustrations from World Illustration magazine.
Russian weekly illustrated, moderate, bourgeois-liberal movement, artistic and literary magazine, one of the most popular among illustrated editions of the second half of the 19th century in Russia. Published in St. Petersburg by Hermann Goppe's book publishing house from 1869 to 1898. volume of 2 pp. and a total circulation of up to 10,000 copies.
This is 1883. Only in December 1888, the Georgievskaya power station gave the first current.
Illumination in Moscow
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We will continue to consider examples of strange structures on domes and rather superfluous than natural metal bonds in buildings. And also, based on modern information about the achievements of the Kulibins in our time, we will try to connect all this into a single picture.
In the beginning, I propose to remember what a strange structure looks like on the roof of the tower. The magazine "World illustration" of the late 19th century.
The mention of the use of electricity from the atmosphere at the end of the 19th century.
Structures on the roof of a building that are also incomprehensible to a modern person
Maybe the structure has not been removed here since the time of construction and this is still a working installation?
Temples without crosses
Now, to substantiate your assumptions. I suggest looking at this patent:
A DEVICE FOR USING ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, including a receiving unit with an antenna element connected by a conductor with a discharge element, characterized in that the receiving unit contains a system of vertically oriented and communicating with each other conducting dome-shaped triboelements, made below the antenna element, to the edge of the lower electrode of which a needle-shaped discharge cell, and its other electrode is made in the form of a grounded metal disk.
The condenser chamber 1 is bounded by a housing 2, configured in the form of a body of revolution with a conical upper part. The body is made of dielectric (concrete, limestone). At the top of the body 2 there is a lower metal domed triboelement 3, which has a long metal "nose" 4, on which domed triboelements are rigidly fixed in series (by means of a metal "nose"), the cavities of which and the chambers are connected. A cruciform antenna 6 is fixed on the upper domed triboelement, and a needle 10 vertically descends from the edge of the lower domed triboelement. At the base of the chamber 7, there is a lower disc-shaped metal electrode 8 having a ground connection 9.
The device works as follows.
Dome-shaped triboelements, located vertically and connected to a cruciform antenna, allow, with a minimum volume, to create a maximum surface for triboelectrization by various atmospheric factors, similar to the electrification of aircraft bodies. The result is a potential difference between the upper electrically charged needle electrode and the lower electrode.
During snowstorms, rain, thunderstorms, this process (accumulation of electric charges) is significantly enhanced by using the developed surface of the domes.
The increase in voltage between the electrodes also depends on the rise height of the upper electrode (with antenna and domed triboelements), since the Ez vertical component of the Earth's electric field is up to 200 V / m from the Earth's surface, increasing during the period of disturbances (rain, blizzard, thunderstorm). The needle allows maximum concentration of the field strength for the breakdown of the discharge gap.
You do not find that the scheme for the patent is very reminiscent of domes in Christian churches, crosses in the form of an antenna. And there is also an analogy with metal floors in them:
An example of a temple floor made of metal slabs. This is a huge cost for those times? So it made sense!
Here are the metal ties hanging from under the dome in the temple in Yekaterinburg, the conductors - everything is as per the above patent. But most likely, ancient builders owned this technology for hundreds of years. Why are the clergy silent? Really, none of them know what all these metal conductive elements are for?
Another example of a hanging conductor. Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Dubrovitsa Estate (Podolsk)
This church does not look like Christian ones and was built of white stone, not brick
A metal "chain" also hangs from under the dome. And the chandelier can be regarded as the "Chizhevsky Chandelier" - an ionizer. There are many scientific works on the beneficial effect of ions from the atmosphere on the body. It's all about negative charges, which will be transferred to the cells with the inhaled air. And cells simply need a negative charge to their membranes. Then metabolic processes go well and viruses cannot penetrate the cell and destroy it.
St. Andrew's Church in Ukraine. These examples can be continued
I came across old photographs from other temples, where dozens of these conductors hang from under the dome. But I could not understand what it was then and did not save links to photos.
One of the old photographs. More like busbars than wall reinforcement and contraction.
Busbars in the walls of the destroyed church.
Why are the domes of Christian churches spherical and plated with gold? Not from the point of view of symbolism, but from the point of view of physics?
The frame of the domes of stone churches is also metal
In order for the fittings to perform their functions, they should not be smooth. The maximum is the screed of the perimeter of the walls, but not the reinforcement. But I am inclined to think (like bloggers pro_vladimir and dmitrijan) that these are bus ducts.
This whole structure of the temples resembles the Leiden jar, the first simple condenser:
Are not the domes of temples?
Perhaps, it was not for nothing that the temples were erected on springs, springs or nearby?
I am more and more inclined to think that these structures, temples, previously had nothing to do with religion. It was a health-improving complex that generates static electricity from the atmosphere. In such an electrostatic field, a person could improve his health and heal well in several sessions. This is a separate topic that has a powerful foundation in cell physiology. Without a negative potential on the membrane, the cell cannot normally exchange substances with the intercellular fluid. And viruses easily penetrate it with a weak potential. Erythrocytes also stick together from lack of charge, clusters of erythrocytes do not carry oxygen to the cells through the capillaries. This is the basis of the intoxication process when ethyl alcohol enters the bloodstream. You can drink living water with a strong negative oxidation-reduction potential (ORP). And you could come to such a temple. Pharaoh's cylinders are also from the same topic.
There are modern kulibins, who have understood something and are beginning to design devices based more on statics than on power currents. One of these self-taught scientists is Alexander Mishin.
Let's continue: here is the invention of a student from Ukraine) Video with a young inventor (in Ukrainian)):
The principle of operation, most likely, is the same as that of the Kelvin dropper:
Illumination of the Kremlin:
Coronation celebrations in the Kremlin on the occasion of the coronation of Alexander I in 1801. Maybe at the beginning of the 19th century. did you use these principles of generating electricity and not galvanic cells?
In August 1856, the coronation of Emperor Alexander II took place in Moscow. Gustav Schwartz. Illumination of the Resurrection Gate and the Kremlin in 1856
Konstantin Makovsky. Illumination of Moscow in 1883 on the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III.
All this illumination looks at us from the pictures before the official invention of incandescent lamps by Lodygin, and even more so before their industrial production based on a tungsten heating coil at the end of the 19th century.
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A collection of some facts, videos that make you think: were the people of the past so dense? It is possible that they knew much more about electricity and its production than some of our energy industries.
Transformer in stone from Kosovo
Research photographer Ismet Smaili in the Sharri Mountains, Kosovo, found a mysterious artifact that looks a lot like an electromagnetic coil. The object is, as it were, "soldered" into the stone.
Also, judging by its appearance, it is possible that this is a LATR (linear autotransformer), or just an inductor
It is possible that it was filled with some kind of concrete composition, liquid stone.
Something was screwed to this part
We will not exclude the version of skeptics that the device of the middle of the 20th century. got into the mud, which is petrified, as in this example:
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And if it's a Tesla coil? And then it makes sense to watch these videos:
How do you like this version of the original use of chain mail? Knight's armor as protection against electromagnetic radiation or electrostatic fields We watch these two videos:
Perhaps the video with the magnetron itself is a fake, but an interesting thought was laid in it:
Doubts that such technologies could be used in the past go away after viewing this information:
From thick steel, this armor will be heavy. And in battle, the knight becomes clumsy. Thus, they lose their military purpose. But from a thin one - quite excellent protection against static voltage. Examples of strange weapons from the past:
Why this wire? That the handle does not slide? Perhaps, but it was possible to make a relief surface of a metal cylinder.
Could this "weapon" be related to the theme of "arresters", "lightning throwers"?
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Getting static voltage on the Jed, as I understand it, from some kind of vibration device, possibly working on the principle of the piezoelectric effect. By the way, there is a version that the pyramids are electrical installations operating from the noise of the Earth (micro-oscillations of its surface)
It looks like a Tesla coil, only hidden in the cylinder of the installation. As well as from it - a gas-discharge lamp also lights up here.
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Frankfurt in 1730
The Paris Exhibition showcases the achievements of electric lighting. This is 1890.
Find the differences:
The question is, why did they remove such beauty, this decor?
I think this is why:
A video about interesting observations at old houses. And the author's thoughts about their heating and lighting:
By the way, perhaps this is how the huge halls and rooms of ordinary houses were illuminated in the past:
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An example of the scale of the use of electricity (albeit not atmospheric) in the not so distant past: the book by engineer Aleksandrov, published in 1912, withstood 4 editions until 1918. Very interesting for those interested in the history of electrification, although some Soviet storytellers managed to see the first Ilyich's light bulb only in 1920.
They write that the hair dryer was invented by an American in 1925, but look it was lying on the table of a Russian woman at the beginning of the century! Christmas tree garland. But what an apparatus for eliminating wrinkles is - they do not even know now! Most of all, I was surprised that there were already two-tariff meters, which we had only 25 years ago.
Read the second part here.