Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

I am a big fan of Nikola Tesla. He was a brilliant man. If it wasn't for Tesla, we would be using costly and inefficient DC electricity, instead of AC. He invented a working brushless AC induction motor, radio before Marconi, x-rays before Roentgen, and arguably may have discovered electrons in 1891. He proved you could transmit electricity wirelessly, but efforts to prove wide-scale transmission of electricity proved to be insurmountable and his achievements were not recognized while he was alive.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Another invention... the Tesla Coil

And all this time, I thought he was a rock band.

Nikola tesla stole electricity from my great, great grandfather. They went to school together and my grandfather took a nap and woke up to find tesla and the electricity stuff he was working on were all gone.

ghandi wrote:Nikola tesla stole electricity from my great, great grandfather. They went to school together and my grandfather took a nap and woke up to find tesla and the electricity stuff he was working on were all gone.

I have a chair you can sit in... and we'll give you all that electricity baaack!