BALL LIGHTNING RESEARCH PAPERS  (Tesla website)               1996 Bill Beaty
http://amasci.com/tesla/ballpprs.txt

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Science of Ball Lightning   1988 Waseda Univ.   Y.H.Ohtsuki, ed.
International Symposium on Ball Lightning
Pub:  World Scientific, 1989, Teaneck, NJ
http://home.wxs.nl/~icblsec/pg_ohtsu.html


  A collection of papers from a recent symposium.  I was particularly 
  fascinated by the large number of videotapes of BL made by the public
  in Japan, where camcorders are apparently more common than in the US.

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Fire Balls, Fractals, and Colorado Springs: A Rediscovery of Tesla's RF
Techniques, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1990 INTERNATIONAL TESLA SYMPOSIUM
by Kenneth L. Corum & Dr. James F. Corum
Pub: International Tesla Society, Colorado Springs CO
http://www.tesla.org

  Corum and Corum reproduce Nikola Tesla's BL production technique!
  This type of BL arises when RF arcs with impulsive envelopes
  vaporise carbon, and the Corums believe the phenomena to be a sort of
  stable combustion process with carbon or copper and ozone, with a 
  diffusion-limited agglomeration structure (aerogel) which somehow
  slows the combustion process.  Their 'fireballs' range in size
  up to 5cm, last several seconds, change color with time, and some-
  times terminate existance with a bang.  Numerous photos and video
  stillframes of the phenomena.

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Tesla's Production of Electric Fireballs  Vol.8, No.3, 1989 pp13-18
TESLA COIL BUILDER'S ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER
by K. Corum & J. Corum
see: http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian/ball.htm
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"Ball Lightning"   PHYSICAL REVIEW, Vol. 135, No.2A  7/20/64 pp390-396
by D. Finkelstein and J. Rubinstein

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BALL LIGHTNING STUDIES.
G.T. Meaden (ed.). 1990. Softback £5.00.
84 pages, 18 illustrations plus 1 colour plate. ISBN 0 9510590 6 8
Artetech Publishing Co.
Special edition of the Journal of Meteorology, principally composed of
ball lightning reports and other lightning events.
Artetech Publishing Co.: 54, Frome Road, Bradford-on-Avon, WILTSHIRE
BA15 1LD
Souvenir Press Ltd.: 43, Great Russell Street, LONDON WC1B 3PA
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PROCEEDINGS: FOURTH TORRO CONFERENCE: BALL LIGHTNING
M. Stenhoff (ed.). 1992. Softback £10.00 now out of print
88 pages, 9 illustrations. TORRO Ball Lightning Division.
Proceedings of the fourth TORRO conference, on ball lightning, held at
Oxford in 1992.
Material published by TORRO is available from 54, Frome Road,
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, GREAT BRITAIN BA15 1LD. Please allow up
to a few weeks for delivery.
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