Tesla Energy Technology on Art Bell Tonight

[Erasmus]

Incidentally, the most important work in electromagnetic theory was done by Steinmetz. He wrote volumes on this topic.

I would argue the case of Maxwell; come to think of it, I have:

A short discourse on Maxwell's theory

[thunderdome]

I really like the story of how, unsing a small mechanical wave generator, he was able to send a tall building into violent oscillations just by adding to the wave in the resonant frequency of the building. This guy had a great intuitive sense of waves of all sorts especially in 3 phases.

[Willie Green]

I love the fringe physics stuff on Art Bell.

Art is entertaining, but a lot of this "fringe" physics merely perpetuates junk science.

[Slyfox]

What I found most interesting about Tesla was that he would build everything in his head before he built it with his hands. When he finished his invention the product would work PERFECTLY. Quite unlike Edison who made a lot of things that didn't work. Tesla was a true genius.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

I don't recall anyone predicting the end of the Earth on Art Bell's program.

Many on the show have discussed the possibility of catastrophic events occuring on Earth, both natural and man-made. But the end of the World? Nahhh... <Fregards, MM

[kellynla]

Oh Michael, you know all those psychics he use to have on especially in 1999 who were predicting this and that and how the end of the world was coming in 2000...haven't listened to him much in about 2 years...I sleep better these days LOL

[RS]

"And one day Tesla disappeared without a trace. Interesting no?"

... Just wondering who they stuck in urn then...
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1623

[Delbert]

Tesla Rocks!!!! or at least they did in the early 90's.

[Clemenza]

Nikola Tesla SHOULD be as well known as Thomas Edison, but Edison was a better businessman.

[Clemenza]

I myself like Linda Moulton Howe, if only for the comic factor.

[Dragonfly]

He was a good friend of Samuel Clemmons ( Mark Twain )

Mark Twain (Clements) was a regular visitor to Tesla's lab in New York. Here's a funny story associated with Twain and Tesla's experiments with mechanical vibration.

During one of his visits Clements accidentally demonstrated the embarrassing consequences of mechanical vibration. By this time, Tesla had built a trembling platform to see how physical constants changed with the speed of vibration. The platform was mounted on elastic cushions and driven by compressed air so that it vibrated with great precision over a wide range of speeds. Tesla said it was so accurate it could work like a precision clock pendulum.

One day, while carrying out an experiment, he stepped on the platform when it was in motion and noticed a 'strange but pleasant' feeling as his body vibrated. He then encouraged his assistant to try the platform and established that he also found the sensation pleasant. Tesla, who had spent longer on the platform than his assistant, then discovered that the vibration had loosened his bowels to such an extent that he only just reached the lavatory in time to avert disaster As he sat relieving himself, the truth dawned on him that he had invented a mechanical laxative. [...]

As Samuel Clements suffered from constipation, Tesla suggested that his health would be improved if he tried 'mechanical therapy'. When Clements did so, he found the vibration so pleasant that he stayed on it longer than was prudent. Tesla tried to warn him that he had vibrated for long enough, but Clements persisted just a little longer. As a result, they had to send round to Mr Clements' house for a clean pair of white linen trousers. His constipation, though, was cured!

[Quoted from: Robert Lomas: The man who invented the twentieth century. Nikola Tesla, forgotten genius of electricity, 1999 Headline Book Publishing, London]

[Willie Green]

Nikola Tesla SHOULD be as well known as Thomas Edison

So should Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.

[Who dat?]

They had someone on Art Bell’s show once that claimed Tesla was attempting to transmit static electricity somehow to a receiver in Austria or somewhere. He claimed that Tesla overshot somehow and knocked a big divot out of Siberia.

There’s nothing like plugging away at some project at two in the morning with Art Bell on in the background. That show wouldn’t work in any other time slot.

[EBUCK]

It's too bad that the gov and Edison had him knocked off. Think how far ahead we'd be now.

EBUCK

[MadRobotArtist]

I stood corrected a few posts ago.