Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla

NikolaTesla Memorial Society ^ | July 6, 2006 | Me

[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.

[Old Professer]

Westinghouse could build the transformers Tesla needed to power his giant projects.

[Old Professer]

He sequestered himself and was given to surly solitude at times; as I said, he was not one for convention.

[carmenbmw]

Wow, I wish I had the notes that I took earlier last year...
Westinghouse, did he not just use Tesla and never pay him off?
From what I remember, Tesla trusted this guy and got nothing...

[blackbart.223]

"Westinghouse could build the transformers Tesla needed to power his giant projects."

And your point is?

[gogeo]

The inventor of the zot, you might say.

[SunkenCiv]

The electrocution thing backfired -- Edison was trying to win the war of the currents, and in order to do that was trying to show that AC power was inherently unsafe. Instead, the electrocution by DC was found to be much more effective, and that's what's used today.

[blackbart.223]

"The electrocution thing backfired -- Edison was trying to win the war of the currents, and in order to do that was trying to show that AC power was inherently unsafe.

In some ways it is. At the frequency we generate A.C. it is more apt to cause cardiac arrhythmia as is D.C.. All things being equal.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Steven Spielberg was the clerk in the Cook County Assessor's office.

[Old Professer]

The true cause of death from electrocution is frying of the brain matter; all else is coincidental; D.C. at sufficient rectified voltage, >2500 volts will break the skin resistance and serum sodium levels take over for conductance.

[blackbart.223]

"The true cause of death from electrocution is frying of the brain matter; all else is coincidental; D.C. at sufficient rectified voltage, >2500 volts will break the skin resistance and serum sodium levels take over for conductance."

I think we are splitting hairs here. Cardiac arrest or frying the brain end in the same result. A.C. ,at much lower voltages than D.C., can cause cardiac arrest due to the frequency that we generate A.C.

[blackbart.223]

"The true cause of death from electrocution is frying of the brain matter; all else is coincidental; D.C. at sufficient rectified voltage, >2500 volts will break the skin resistance and serum sodium levels take over for conductance."

Let me try this one again. High voltage alone won't kill. It is the amount of current delivered that will do the trick. Take a 480vac 3 phase circuit and you only come in contact with one leg. If that circuit is attached to a twenty amp circuit breaker you are in deep shit.

[Old Professer]

That would be roughly 270 volts and any effect on you would depend on the path the current took; if you touched the open lead with your forefinger and your thumb on the same hand was near a ground you would have very bad burns on that hand; what does your 20 amp circuit breaker have to do with primary skin resistance?

[Old Professer]

Not exactly, cardiac arrest can be corrected by re-application of current whereas a fried brain is like yesterday's breakfast.

[Old Professer]

BTW, I used to work with voltages up to 4,800 VAC, (with one hand behind my back).

[blackbart.223]

"That would be roughly 270 volts and any effect on you would depend on the path the current took; if you touched the open lead with your forefinger and your thumb on the same hand was near a ground you would have very bad burns on that hand; what does your 20 amp circuit breaker have to do with primary skin resistance?"

One leg Of A 480 circuit is 277 volts to be exact. And how you are grounded makes all the difference in the world. As to the twenty amp breaker, it would take twenty amps to trip it. Would you want 277 volts at twenty amps to hit you? I don't think so.

[shalom aleichem]

Yes, they found a copy of Gorebot's Earth in the Balance.

[Calvin Locke]

"Corellation does not necessarily mean causation".

OTOH, there are still many things to test HAARP on.

Earthquakes? There was the Bam, Iran one.

Weather modification? Katrina.

Other uses, other than really over the horizon radar are geosurveying (finding TROP caves), removing induced radiation belts around the Earth, etc.

[cloud8]

> Is this the beastie you were thinking of?

Ack! The Van de Graaff.

I was thinking of the Tesla coil, of course.

[MikefromOhio]

Rock On!!! :)

[eleni121]

That is so cool...forever Tesla!