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audiences of New York's cultural elite in his laboratory, he had allowed hundreds of
thousands of volts to pass over his body and light up lamps, melt metal and explode
small light bulbs. It was a don't try this at home scene, with the sLender inventor
sprayed with crackling electrical current as he stood stork like on insulated shoes.
Manning was fascinated at the thought of the elegant Tesla showing off for his
cultured friends, in his laboratory lit with dazzling, pulsating waves of light in
unearthly warm hues.27, 28

In the college where the conference was held, she picked up a press pass,
then joined two hundred or so spectators in Armstrong auditorium. Onstage,
man-made lightning sizzled through the air, zig-zagging from a giant electrical
device called a Tesla coil which dwarfed three technicians. Blue light streaked along
the paths of fried air and members of the audience covered their ears against the
deafening electric buzz.
It looked lethal, but the demonstrator explained that although Tesla used
high voltage (electrical pressure) current, it was of such a high-frequency that it
danced over his skin instead of zapping his internal organs. A man sat on top of the
apparatus before the coil was turned on with a deafening roar, then long sparks
jumped from his fingers.

In other meeting rooms, would-be Gods of Lightning told about their
research. One of those speakers was Robert Golka, a sturdily built man with the cocky
personality of a lone adventurer. He prided himself on making fireballs by whatever
means - even from a circuit breaker in a railroad engine when he had slammed the
engine into reverse. A fireball, or ball lightning, is a glowing sphere of what looks
like gases. The speaker said that Nikola Tesla's "wireless power" experiments near
Colorado Springs made 30 second golfball-sized ball lightning in 1899.

Why would anyone want to play with lightning, in any shape? Golka was
explaining; ball lightning might hold the secrets of thermonuclear fusion and
eventually cheap power. He had rented an empty hangar in Wendover, Utah - the
hangar where the atomic bomb was loaded into a bomber for its death-drop debut -
and built a Tesla coil that was 51 feet wide for experiments. Golka spoke of voltages
of 15 million volts and lightning-like discharges forty feet long. He hinted that the
technology could be used as an "ultra-high megavolt source for particle beam
weaponry".

Manning wondered what the engineer on stage really wanted to do - send
electrical energy without wires or get a grant from the military. Or both. As if in
answer to her question, Golka began to talk about wireless power transmission.
Nikola Tesla had claimed to be able to send electrical energy without wires before the
turn of the century, and he envisioned people all around the globe sticking rods into
the earth to extract that energy - free. He didn't get to send power to the people,
however. After Tesla admitted to financier J.P. Morgan that an experimental tower on
Long Island was meant to send power as well as messages, his public career ended.
27 Hesearch by Dr. Marc J. Seifer, p. 1-33, Proceedings of 1988 International Teste Symposium,
available from International Tesla Society, PO Box 5636, Colorado Springs, CO 80931.
28 SUPPRESSED INVENTIONS, edited by Jon Eisen, Auckland Institute of Technology Press1994.