Well-insulated, of course, from boiler to engine.

Steam lines route under the floor, of course. Steam enters (and spent vapor exits) the propulsion mechanism through headers in the sidewall, too. Valve timing works thru a simple linkage mech, cable-controlled (If neither digital telemetry nor hydraulic control methods hold any appeal) through the side of the can. Couple the package's crankshaft thru a right-angle box directly to the differential's universal joint. Seal 'em semi-permanently inside a cut-down 55-gal oil drum or similar enclosure bolt 'em flat to the rear floor of the ol' SUV like a phat steel pancake. Let us now (at last!) have ourselves a decent triple-expansion, triple-compound, 120° radial-axis Serpollet-design-derived steam-driven expansion engine (with multifuel-capable monotube boiler) for immediate application to the post-petrol challenges of fuel-versatile, closed-cycle, non-toxic (yes) light steam vehicle propulsion purposes, shall we? It seems clear that we shall soon need such cost-effective drop-in conversion packages as these for soon-to-be-moribund explosion-driven vehix, I think. Then there's power MOSFETs these days.? (Gee, I sure would like to build one of those workhorses - looks like it s Worth Doing Right.)Īh, yes, things worth building.

Germanium's 300mV forward junction-drop sure takes better to a gentle initial ticklin' than any 700mV silicon-junction device might ever, when the steady-state alternating input energy's mebbe a bit on the feeble side. One expects that a decently similar power-capture device might be built from off-the-shelf bits these days, really. The switching device, as illustrated on the sites I visited (you go too kindly do!) looked (to myself) like a somewhat crude and certainly sizeable (as well as arguably effective) germanium (I deduce crystal-based, anyway) switching device encapsulated in a blown glass envelope, when I first started puzzling over it on a few 'Radiant Energy' Web sites a few months back. 'Tickled' just so, like a resonance kick-start or a rubber hammer on the bell's rim. Franlky, the effect looks to myself just like something a Tesla coil would produce if it rang like a bell, only with more amps and less volts.įatter wire, fewer turns, tuned just so. By the extant photos and descriptions of the nature of the light produced at his live demos, though, it seems quite clear that the as-delivered electrical fluid's base freq was likely much higher than our modern 50- or 60-cycle grids tend to provide today. It seems to have had a way of powering banks of lamps, multiple high-wattage heaters and suchlike *resistive* loads for indefinite periods, with no inclination toward overload or excessive heating-up on its own part. (PhD) Moray's little breadbox was apparently fitted with a ground rod, an antenna, and a 'Bump-um-up' start-switch. (Offhand, I suspect germanium due to the apparently high frequency being apparently switched, resonated and thus exploited.)ĭr. Henry Moray's work on macro-magnetic field electro-resonance devices ('free' 'leccy drawn from a circuit built on Earth made to resonate with the Cosmos-scale tho' semi-subtle 'Vibrations of the Spheres' (sic), more/less, per what I do grasp third-hand of Tesla's 'Radiant Energy' hypothesis) will sooner or later scope out patent drawings and maybe a photo or two related to yet another apparent (tho' early) solid-state junction-based switching device. for rectification, but suffer from ready thermal runaway.Īnother early Transistor Example. Ge devices were not bad, they still are in use, esp. The germanium/geranium/silicon issue was due to the problems with the manufacture, until diffusion techniques were fully developed germanium was easier to work with and dope. But once the junction FET could be made it started to take over - until IGFETs wiped it out.Īnd yes, there were plenty of semiconductor devices around before that, like the copper-oxide rectifiers and simple CuO amps, but they had a frequency response of up to a few Hz. When the mesa and planar processes were developed later, you could get HF out of them. But they could be used in trannie sets :) They were still bloody useless - LF devices only. What this geezer did was to produce a *practical* device that could be manufactured in bulk - the junction trannie. All you had to do was frown, and they'd pop).

The initial Bardeen bipolars were point-contact, and these were bloody useless (I have one or two p-c somewhere that I did not blow up by using them. Without looking it all up: the first transistors to be conceived were field-effect trannies, but the technology to produce a practical device was not available.

Inventor of transistor