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I know his focus was on RF transmission of power, and he strove to eliminate visible emission (streamers), but somehow I still think seeing us all get so much happiness out of his legacy, even being that it is mostly put to use for enjoyment/entertainment and not practical ends, would bring a smile to his face.
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Sigurthr wrote ...
I know his focus was on RF transmission of power,
I was reading up on Nikola yesterday, (his birthday, I was actually a few minutes late in posting, but it was still the 10th in US, etc.), and it seems his sole interest in electricity was to power his proposed 'flying machine'. This is why he was fascinated with wireless transmission of power. (He was actually a mechanical engineer first, and only applied himself to electrical engineering for this purpose.
I read several interviews he gave, and he repeated this over and over again. It seems he also predicted the 'Higgs field' ~80 years before Peter Higgs did, but he referred to it as an 'aether'.
It seems his 'flying machine' relied upon electro-magnetic levitation to overcome gravity,
One of the articles I read about him, on his Dynamic Theory of Gravity' is here, with some other interesting links included in it:
(I don't agree with all of the author's opinios and conclusions, though, but he does seem to have most of his facts right.)
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Tesla a mechanical engineer? I've got a copy of the Colorado Springs Notes and they're pretty much electrical.
However I think as a great inventor, his ideas would have cut across the divisions between subjects. For instance the induction motor is both an electrical device and a mechanical one.
On the 10th I was down in London firing off sparks for a TV program, so I naturally agree about the entertainment aspect.
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Steve Conner wrote ...
Tesla a mechanical engineer? I've got a copy of the Colorado Springs Notes and they're pretty much electrical.
I think I made a mistake with my link earlier (I had had a drink or three last night, and read quite a few articles). The article I meant to link to was this one (the link to it was on the webpage I did link to):
]teslas_flying_machine.pdf[/file]
This is a quotation from it, by Nikola:
“Yes, but I was a mechanical engineer before I was an electrical engineer, and besides, this principle was worked on in the course of my search for the ideal motor for airships, to be used in conjunction with my invention for the wireless transmission of electrical power. For twenty years I worked on the problem, but I have not given up. When my plan is perfected the present-day aeroplanes and dirigible balloons will disappear, and the dangerous sport of aviation, as we know it now with its hundreds of accidents, and its picturesque birdmen, will give way to safe, seaworthy airships, without wings or gas bags, but supported and driven by mechanical means."
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I stumbled upon an amusing short story, expounding Tesla's achievements. Obviously a prose by a middle school student, based on the vernacular. And with Edison as the villain king of douchebaggery Good to know the truth about Edison has spread, and diluted the decades of published BS that schoolbooks have administered to our youth.
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Happy birthday Nikola
Good to know the truth about Edison has spread, and diluted the decades of published BS that schoolbooks have administered to our youth.