Here's a strange thing indeed. A little back story: We've got three cordless phones in our home. The ones in the front room and the kitchen have developed problems of late, namely they would often fail to power up, most likely due to failing batteries. I disconnected the front room phone and replaced it with a corded phone from long ago, a very cool unit with a blue neon tube around the periphery. The only reason it hadn't been in use was its inclusion of a cord to the handset.
Fast forward to the other night, when I did my last couple of posts. After finishing those and a few other things, the power for the whole house first flickered, then went out altogether. It came back on a few seconds later, but only for a couple moments, then it went out again. Now, the strange part: The neon on the phone remained lit, even when every other thing in the house lost power!!! I hypothesised that perhaps it was somehow drawing its power from the phone line, but disconnecting it from the AC adapter caused it to turn off. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps the AC was only out on one leg, and it was grounding through the phone lines.
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There's gotta be one of those china round batteries hiding some where in there!
that's kinda spooky
(alien teleport)
cool phone though!
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muntvdc: My uncle ned took vicky dicky carousing
Nice futurist looking phone. Tessela's vacuum tube technology may have been a better choice, but then there wouldn't have been a need for high power lines, meters, and of course the monthly eletric bill.
ET phoned home, the line was busy.
Since you seem to know about Nikola's many wonderful ideas, I'd guess I wouldn't have to tell you that he used to have his shop within a electromagnetic field, and would walk around with tubes like this one completely disconnected from any power source, and they would be illuminated. Hmmmm.... maybe something like that was what happened here!!!
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