First Tesla Museum and Science Center International Conference on NIKOLA TESLA
October 6-8, 2006, Long Island, New York, United States of America
Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville. N.Y. 11738
ABSTRACT
Nikola Tesla and the Development of RF Power Systems : Part 2
Kenneth Corum
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Kenneth L. Corum: B.A. in Physics from Gordon College (1976) and graduate work in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts.
After graduating from Gordon, Mr. Corum taught Physics and General Science at Franklin High School, Franklin, MA. Subsequently, he entered private industry and has taught computer electronics, digital techniques, and software engineering, for Compugraphic Corporation, ATEX, Inc., and Sun Microsystems, in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, and across the US. He was also employed by the Microwave Semiconductor Division of Varian Associates in Beverly, MA where he developed RF semiconductor devices. Mr. Corum was Director of the Commercial TV Satellite Division of Pinzone Communications, he was a software consultant with Hewlett-Packard, and he is now a Staff Consultant for Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA.
He is the recipient of many industrial and teaching awards. His fundamental work on the electromagnetic generation of ball lightning has been published in Russian by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He spoke by invitation in Novi Sad and in Belgrade as a guest of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1993. Mr. Corum has co-authored six books and published more than sixty technical papers, and he is listed in Outstanding Young Men of America and in American Men and Women of Science.
Publications include:
"Nikola Tesla and the
Electrical Signals of Planetary Origin," K. L. Corum and J. F.
Corum, Ph.D., International Tesla Conference, "Tesla, III
Millennium," Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 1996.
"Nikola Tesla and the Diameter of the Earth: A Discussion of One of
the Many Modes of Operation of the Wardenclyffe Tower," K.L. Corum
and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1996.
"The Schumann Cavity, J. J. Thomson's Spherical Resonators and the
Gateway to Modern Physics," K. L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D.
1996.
"Nikola Tesla, Lightning Observations, and Stationary Waves," K.
L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1994.
"Atmospheric Fields, Tesla's Receivers and Regenerative
Detectors," K. L. Corum, J. F. Corum, Ph.D., and A. H. Aidinejad,
Ph.D. 1994.
"Tesla's Egg of Columbus, Radar Stealth, the Torsion Tensor, and the
"Philadelphia Experiment," K. L. Corum, J. F. Corum, Ph.D., and
A. H. Aidinejad, Ph.D., 1994.
"Dr. Mahlon Loomis: Terra Alta's Neglected Discoverer of RF
Communication," K. L. Corum and J. F. Corum et al. 1992.
"Some Thoughts on Tesla's Death Beam," K. L. Corum, J. F. Corum,
Ph.D. and J. F. X. Daum, Ph.D. 1992.
"Tesla and the Magnifying Transmitter: A Popular Study for
Engineers," K. L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1990.
"Fire Balls, Fractals and Colorado Springs: A Rediscovery of Teslas's
RF Techniques," K. L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1990.
"Tesla Coils: 1890-1990--100 Years of Cavity Resonator
Development," K. L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1990.
"Tesla Coils: An RF Power Processing Tutorial for Engineers," K.
L. Corum and J. F. Corum, Ph.D. 1988.
"Spherical Transmission Lines and Global Propagation, An Analysis of
Tesla's Experimentally Determined Propagation Model," K. L. Corum, J.
F. Corum, Ph.D., and J. F. X. Daum, Ph.D. 1987. 81 pp. Illustrated.
"Vacuum Tube Tesla Coils," J. F. Corum, Ph.D. and K. L. Corum.
1987. 150 pp. Profusely illustrated. Paperback.
"A Technical Analysis of the Extra Coil as a Slow Wave Helical
Resonator," J. F. Corum and K. L. Corum. 1986.
"Critical Speculations Concerning Tesla's Invention and Applications
of Single Electrode X-Ray Directed Discharges for Power Processing and
Terrestrial Resonances," J. F. Corum and K. L. Corum. 1986.
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