Everything I am today I owe to Nikola Tesla! 
Oh Yeah! Did Nikola invent that crappy rug you're wearing on that bald head?
Posted on 07/16/2005 5:26:49 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2
Nikola Tesla: Unsung genius or raving loony?
The history of technology is populated with a marvellous cast of characters. On the one hand you have the colourful, hard-working inventors like Thomas Edison who slaved away morning, noon and night to produce many of the wonders that we take for granted such as the incandescent light, the telephone, and the garlic peeler. On the other you have the moonbat crazies who show up at the patent office with a cardboard box stuffed with wires and a torch battery claiming that they've made contact with John Kerry's charisma. And then there is that rarest of creatures: Nikola Tesla, a man who was both a certifiable genius and just plain certifiable.
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Everything I am today I owe to Nikola Tesla! Oh Yeah! Did Nikola invent that crappy rug you're wearing on that bald head?
Good thing Tesla won the "war of currents."
Edison went on to carry out a campaign to discourage the use of alternating current. Edison personally presided over several executions of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs, to demonstrate to the press that his system of direct current was safer than that of alternating current. Edison's series of animal executions peaked with the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant.
Edison opposed capital punishment, but his desire to disparage the superior system of alternating current ironically led to the invention of one of the world's most recognizable killing devices. Low frequency (50 - 60 Hz) AC currents are actually more dangerous than similar levels of DC current since the alternating fluctuations can cause the heart to lose coordination, inducing ventricular fibrillation, which then rapidly leads to death. Eventually, the advantages of AC power transmission outweighed the disadvantages, and it was eventually adopted as the standard.
However, I trust you more than I do the MSM, so I will go see it. Here in my small Texas hometown, it is $2 a ticket before 6PM at the local moviehouse.
They charge robots $3! It ain't fair...
As pointed out in the articles, Edison was a great proponent of DC power, and he and Henry Ford were great buddies. Therefore, as I understand it, Ford had the huge Rouge plant run by DC. I don't know how long this system lasted, but in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn I saw one of the original generators, a huge machine with two reciprocating power cylinders, one for steam and one for internal combustion of waste gas from a blast furnace or something similar, and both driving a common shaft turning the DC generator. I think about four of these powered the entire Rouge plant. Surely that's about as odd as anything Tesla invented.
I forgot to add, we have Tesla to thank for the electric chair.
Like to see Johnny Depp play Edison...
Dakota Fanning plays Edison in the 2039 film Shock it to me! and she was great!!!!!
Not to mention the death ray, too...
Tesla also invented oil flavored beer!
Just like with the lefties favorite president, FDR. I could go on and on about his wonderful economic policies.
Yeah, that scumbag FDR didn't include robots in Social Security! It wasn't until the Blue States left the Union and elected Teddy Kennedy's head as King in 2013 that we robots got a fair break. BTW Dakota Fanning's portrayal of Teddy Kennedy heroic swimming adventure in 2041's I Did Return! was one of her best film roles.
Robots Rules of Order ... Dammit.
Let me know how you like the flick. Predict you do!
Will do, Cool Jenny! If it don't have Dakota Fanning in it, it ain't shinola!
Pipe down, Bender! I've had Dakota Fanning up to here!
She won't be that tall until 2015.
Gad! I give up...
That ain't a Tesla coil, it's a VandeGraf generator.
A tesla coil doesn't make sparks does it?
Sure it can. It just doesn't look like that.
I saw him on the Science channel last night with the fire proof paste. That's really a great invention!
Right. Tesla VanDeGraf. I dated her sister.
She get you all charged up?
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