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Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
NikolaTesla Memorial Society ^ | July 6, 2006 | Me

Posted on 07/06/2006 7:02:41 PM PDT by eleni121

The Nikola Tesla Monument within Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls (Canadian Side) will be unveiled on July 9, 2006 at 12 noon celebrating the 150th birthday of Nikola Tesla.

(Excerpt) Read more at teslasociety.com ...


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To: stainlessbanner

You're welcome - in advance...


81 posted on 07/06/2006 9:18:51 PM PDT by Libloather (All global warming is local...)
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To: Army Air Corps

And doesnt PeeWee fit the part perfectly?
We didnt know that much about him then. Ew.


82 posted on 07/06/2006 9:20:06 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: carmenbmw

He was the epitome of indifferent deference; good and evil were concepts of a lower order to order of forces beyond the ken of ordinary folk, he imagined and made whole machines and concepts in spite of every insistence of the impossibility of their construction or existence.

He had a certain altruistic bent that fed on the fuel of pure discovery and made and lost a fortune without remorse.

None other like him have we seen nor shall we likely see again.


83 posted on 07/06/2006 9:20:11 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ovrtaxt
"I always enjoyed reading about his quest for free energy, and his attempts to beam electricity through the air instead of wires. He was a staggering genius, and we take his advances in science for granted everyday."

If you are on your computer while using a light bulb to light your room thank Tesla. He pioneered AC and the way we deliver electrical power today.

84 posted on 07/06/2006 9:22:32 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: carmenbmw

Read "Man Out of Time."


85 posted on 07/06/2006 9:22:39 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

Tesla did seem to care about mankind more than he did about himself personally. He wasnt worried about his own wealth.
I am sorry that he did not take care of himself more.


86 posted on 07/06/2006 9:26:35 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: cloud8
There is a huge Tesla spark generator in the Boston Museum of Science.

The Boston Museum of Science houses the Thomson Theater of Electricity which was built to house the original air-insulated Van de Graaff generator created by Robert Van de Graaff and donated to the Museum by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
Is this the beastie you were thinking of?


87 posted on 07/06/2006 9:27:47 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The very air is a giant capacitor, the earth an armature and the heavens a charged field...


88 posted on 07/06/2006 9:27:48 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

I believe that I have read that book, long ago. I may own it.
Thanks for the reference. I will look it up again.


89 posted on 07/06/2006 9:28:33 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: Old Professer

As a boy, I thrilled to the tales of his enigmatic machines and the sheer allure of his better-known discoveries. His mind was alive with possibilities that others could only envision or to which they could merely hint in science fiction.


90 posted on 07/06/2006 9:29:28 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Lancey Howard

Edison electrocuted animals using A.C. current to discredit Tesla.

Edison was a shameless mechanic who browbeat his help and stumbled his way to great success and wealth and that is a polite paraphrase of what Tesla thought of his former employer.


91 posted on 07/06/2006 9:30:29 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Tolkien

Einstein invented nothing and regretted suggesting atomic weapons.

He did lend his name and prominence to others who refined work in progress.


92 posted on 07/06/2006 9:33:06 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

I remember that Tesla did not like Edison at all after working for him.
Perhaps that was why. ( The animal torture thing)


93 posted on 07/06/2006 9:33:22 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: Semi Civil Servant

In the interest of honesty that famous photo is time-lapse and Tesla is not simply sitting quietly in the middle of that giant electrical storm which was of his making.


94 posted on 07/06/2006 9:35:55 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: carmenbmw

Yall know so much more than I do-
Did Tesla work for Edison AND Einstein?
Am I getting the names/projects confused?


95 posted on 07/06/2006 9:36:16 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: Old Professer
"Edison electrocuted animals using A.C. current to discredit Tesla."

Edison did this in order to prove A.C. was more dangerous than D.C.. True as far as it goes but Tesla proved that A.C. would work for transmisson purposes better than D.C. and Tesla was correct.

96 posted on 07/06/2006 9:39:14 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: carmenbmw

He lived a long and fruitful life although lonely by our lights, yet who's to say he didn't enjoy the company of pigeons more than the bothersome fools who otherwise would have bored him to death years earlier?


97 posted on 07/06/2006 9:40:17 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Tesla's unique coil had no armature; the VdG device is a motor-driven friction belt and requires brushes, something Tesla swore to rid electric motors of even after several improvements on their use.


98 posted on 07/06/2006 9:43:55 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

I have read that he was harassed for years by others for many reasons.
And it became complex.
I agree that to hang out wouldnt be so bad, but I doubt that this person was ever given the opportunity to relax.


99 posted on 07/06/2006 9:46:25 PM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: carmenbmw

Tesla worked for Edison briefly, he did not agree with all that Einstein surmised and became a bit grandiose in his later years and may have exaggerated, yet his ideas still resonate and resonance was Tesla's Holy Grail.


100 posted on 07/06/2006 9:47:55 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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