The 1939 Beam Ray Machine

[The Reverend Catmandoo]

I am currently building a "Plasma Generator" quite similar to this device.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.scoon.co.uk/Electrotherapy/Rife/BeamRay/index.htm

Here is a little more info :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.scoon.co.uk/Electrotherapy/Rife/BeamRay/Analysis/index.htm

A link to some of these tubes that are still produced and used today :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://webspace.webring.com/people/or/rifetube/gallery.html

Last but not least, a link to my progress thus far :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15918.0

I have taken a break from the construction for a few small projects but am now ready to get back to it with a fresh vigor.

I can just imagine the Ships physician on an airship tending to the wounded after a great battle with a unit like these.

   The Rev. CMD   

[von Klank]

I have read a little on the Rife devices, and the concept seems interesting. I have some concerns, however, that the tubes involved are more or less X-ray tubes. The design and construction appear to be extremely similar, and even some of the high voltage tubes used in TV's were known to emit X-rays (they are typically shielded in application). Do have a care along those lines if you finish construction.

There are safer (although less visually appealing) ways to get those frequencies through you.

[The Reverend Catmandoo]

I am using a metal halide light for a tube, hopefully that will be reasonably safe. CMD 

[Lucius Voltaic]

Would the tubes at Bill's Plasma Tube Gallery emit harmful x-rays?

Oh, and my uncle's grandfather, or maybe his great-grandfather, almost discovered x-rays before Roentgen--he saw the effect on film, thought, Huh, that's weird, and threw it away.

[Khem Caigan]

Rife was only one of the many experimenters
using shortwave diathermy to treat disease :

" Though Lee de Forest constructed the first
radio tube high-frequency medical apparatus
in 1907-the "Cold" cautery for electrosurgery
-American surgeons refused to use it for many
years. It was being used effectively by physicians
in Paris and Vienna. The frequency of the current
used in long-wave diathermy up to 1929 was
approximately 1 MHz. Though these early
generators were spark-gap oscillators, they
were in vogue from 1908 to 1940.

In 1928, shortwave diathermy was introduced
when Esau, a physicist in Jena, constructed for
Schliephake at Giessen a machine which was
capable of delivering 400 Watts at 100 MHz.

Schliephake was the first to use the higher
frequency shortwave diathermy clinically, by
first using it on himself to cure a furuncle on
the nose. He believed that shortwave diathermy
had a selective or specific, bactericidal effect.
He did much basic work on the heating of
animal tissues. "

~ from :

Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation
by Arthur W. Guy
Part I,
Medical Applications at
Sub-Microwave Frequencies
20th Century
@IEEE Global History Network
http://tinyurl.com/ye6tpyx

Dielectric Heating
From Wikipedia
Uses :
Heating
http://tinyurl.com/yhoxm75