The re-opening of Griffith Observatory 2006

GPO 2006 Re-opening #1

GPO 2006 Re-opening #2

GPO 2006 Re-opening #3

Model 5D Museum Coil

July 2004

( A paper by K.L. Corum and J.F. Corum circa September 2001)

Coming Soon!  New images of the Model 7M magnifier Tesla Coil.

New pictures of Model 4

GPO-2 Tesla Coil final installation update!

Installed at the Mid America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas

(A Look At His Professional Credentials)

by W.C. Wysock, J.F. Corum, J.M. Hardesty and K.L. Corum

Images of a 15 KW 3,600 RPM salient-pole synchronous rotary spark gap with 480 breaks per second designed and manufactured by Tesla Technology Research in 2000.

by Kenneth L. Corum and James F. Corum, Ph.D.

The Model 2 Tesla Coil runs on a standard 120 volt 10 amp circuit. 

With only 3 KVa input, this coil is capable of 6 foot arcs.

Coil installed and operating in the new Fry's Electronics Super Store, Fremont, California.

Paper published in the 1986 Proceedings of the International Tesla Society, Inc.

Two previously unpublished images of Model Nine added on new Model Nine page showing 17 foot arcs

Third Model 10 page added including two previously unpublished images concerning Model 10 Tesla Coil transmission line experiments

An inexpensive table top unit suitable for many classroom as well as amateur experimenter's applications.

Images of a Salient-pole, synchronous 3,600 r.p.m. Rotary Spark Gap first designed and manufactured by Tesla Technology Research, in 1979.

A Night to Remember: The American Academy of Motion Pictures pays homage to the greatest High Voltage Special Effects Man of all Time, Mr. Kenneth Strickfadden and his Life-Long Close Friend, Mr. John Foster.

Previously unpublished image added of Super Model13M magnifier operating at the KRLA-AM Transmitter Building

Second Model 10 page added with previously unpublished images concerning Model 10 Tesla Coil transmission line experiments

Paper published in the 1992 Proceedings of the International Tesla Society, Inc.

Super Model 13M Performs at Sun Microsystems annual meeting in Anaheim Convention Center

The Model 5M Magnifier Tesla Coil demonstrated at the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) Hamcon-98, August 1998, at the San Diego Convention Center

Model 4 joins a distinguished line of Commercial grade Tesla Coils

Various articles from The Griffith Observer were added to this site including a November 1938 article by S. S. Mackeown, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology titled "Electrical Discharge in Gases"

Images of the Griffith Observatory Tesla Coil circa 1965 and personal correspondence between Bill Wysock and Leon Hall, Associate Director of the Observatory