If you have experimented like me his resonant double-capacitor or tri-axial capacitor, you must have come to the conclusion that he is a crackpot.

Would you share some of the info from your experiments like cylinder dimensions, voltages, frequencies, and loads tested?

Here's the reason I asked about experiment parameters.
It has been tickling my brain for a couple of days now that I have seen Aspden's tri-plate device somewhere else in my explorations and it came to me last night that it was in a Tesla patent.

The "Wardencylffe" Patent 1,119,732 has the following text: "The coil B is wound on a frame or drum D1 of insulating material, with its turns close together. I have discovered that when so wound the effect of the small radius of curvature of the wire itself is overcome and the coil behaves as a conductor of large radius of curvature, corresponding to that of the drum [a cylinder]. This feature is of considerable practical importance and is applicable not only in this special instance, but generally. For example, such plates at P P of terminal D, though preferably of large radius of curvature, need not be necessarily so, for provided only that the individual plates or elements of a high potential conductor or terminal are arranged in proximity to each other and with their outer boundaries along an ideal symmetrical enveloping surface of a large radius of curvature, the advantages of the invention will be more or less fully realized. The lower end of the coil B—which, if desired, may be extended up to the terminal D—should be somewhat below the uppermost turn of coil A."
 
 Meaning that coils A, B, and C can be looked at as three cylinders, coil B only slightly protruding into coil A.

Great article.     Thanks


Mags

I also forgot to mention that Aspden's prediction of rotation caused strictly by electrostatic forces has been experimentally verified many years ago by wistrom and chatakouian at the university of riverside in california. I can't remember the exact year, around 2004 or something like that. I found the link:

http://newsroom.ucr.edu/548

looks like it was done in 2003. Wistrom worked at LANL in New Mexico for a time, I believe. Anyway, in one of Aspden's books, he goes through a discourse and arrives at the rotation effect due to the electrostatic charges. I don't remember which book it's in, but I recommend reading all his material.

Please let me know your thoughts and experimental efforts on this.

Thank you !