Posted on 07/06/2006 7:02:41 PM PDT by eleni121
You're welcome - in advance...
And doesnt PeeWee fit the part perfectly?
We didnt know that much about him then. Ew.
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.
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.
Read "Man Out of Time."
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.
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?
The very air is a giant capacitor, the earth an armature and the heavens a charged field...
I believe that I have read that book, long ago. I may own it.
Thanks for the reference. I will look it up again.
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.
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.
Einstein invented nothing and regretted suggesting atomic weapons.
He did lend his name and prominence to others who refined work in progress.
I remember that Tesla did not like Edison at all after working for him.
Perhaps that was why. ( The animal torture thing)
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.
Yall know so much more than I do-
Did Tesla work for Edison AND Einstein?
Am I getting the names/projects confused?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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