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#300441 - 10/07/2007 16:28 Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Take a moment to read about a remarkable man whose goal in life was to make yours easier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#300442 - 10/07/2007 19:57 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: Robotic]
Ladmo addict Registered: 04/09/2004 Posts: 525 Loc: Oklahoma	Yep...I live in Colorado Springs, CO. and one of the old timers up the road talks about his dad saying how people in the area would walk around with their hair standing on end! Ha! A truly remarkable, under understood, and prolific 'man ahead of his time'...Imagine what he would do with a home computer!
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#300443 - 11/07/2007 05:14 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: Ladmo]
music addict Registered: 25/06/2002 Posts: 456	At the Maker Faire a couple of months ago, they had two 9-foot-tall Tesla coil towers. The towers were about 25 feet apart and they would fire them off for 10 minutes every hour. They were quite spectacular! Since I don't have my photos of that handy, I'll just attach an "oldie but a goodie". Also, did you see the movie "The Prestige"? Tesla played a pivotal role in that... Interesting movie. Attachments 301396-tesla14_cr.jpg (85 downloads)
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#300444 - 11/07/2007 13:29 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: music]
furtive old hand Registered: 14/08/2001 Posts: 886 Loc: London, UK	They've got a pair of tesla coils in the dispay at the Peronas towers in Kuala Lumpur that fire every few minutes to show how good a faraday cage the building is. _________________________ Mk2a RioCar 120Gb - now sold to the owner of my old car Rio Karma - now on ebay...
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#300445 - 11/07/2007 15:25 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: furtive]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	There's a Tesla coil on display at the Fry's Electronics store in Fremont, CA. It fires off automatically every hour on the half-hour. Quite impressive. All the show of lightning effects sort of distract one from the true contributions of Nikola Tesla, however. _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#300446 - 13/07/2007 20:47 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: Robotic]
music addict Registered: 25/06/2002 Posts: 456	Quote: All the show of lightning effects sort of distract one from the true contributions of Nikola Tesla, however. Well, 30 foot man-made lightning is pretty cool.... But you're right: Alternating Current, induction motors, one of the first power plants (Niagara Falls), circuit breakers, radio(!) (debatable, but he deserves a fair bit of credit), noting the danger of X-Rays, as well as inventing various fluid pumps and turbines. That's a pretty impressive invention list for someone who is surprisingly often thought of as a footnote or a crackpot or "that lightning dude." Shows the lasting power of Edison's PR machine, I guess. Anyway, someone else was thinking of him and blogged this today.
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#300447 - 17/07/2007 12:56 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: music]
frog51 pooh-bah Registered: 09/08/2000 Posts: 2091 Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland	Trying to find the link - but there is a cool piece of video of a tune played on Tesla coil sparks... _________________________ Rory MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock
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#300448 - 17/07/2007 13:53 Re: Nikola Tesla - Born 10 July 1856 [Re: frog51]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Quote: Trying to find the link - but there is a cool piece of video of a tune played on Tesla coil sparks... Yes! lol I linked one of them in the video thread a while ago. Just search 'tesla coil' on youtube.com _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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