- First part -
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
Promotional video:
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.
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.
Read more about the construction here.
Now let's move on to the generators:
There are prayer drums like this in the east.
And there are these:
Some were attached to be whipped 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
Read about funny lights here.
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.
The third part is here.
