http://youtu.be/98QwPO1b5j4
As a student of electronic engineering I thoroughly endorse this video. :)
This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell
Wasn't too bad either!
Gerard
Quote from: doorknob on November 30, 2014, 03:04:19 PM
As a student of electronic engineering I thoroughly endorse this video. :)
Keep up the hard work, and you too can have a car like my son, an electronic engineer, has. (http://i.imgur.com/XINfq8X.jpg)
Quote from: Gerard on November 30, 2014, 05:25:06 PM
This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell
Wasn't too bad either!
Gerard
You got that right! Steinmets is another one in that category, that most people never heard of.
I've always loved Nikola Tesla. I remember in the mid 90's playing the computer game "Invention Studio" they had a quick mention of him.
I was in Serbia 2 years ago. Went to the Nikola Tesla Museum. The 20 minute tour wasn't all that impressive. And the guide gave us some conspiracy theories. That the tower really works but electric companies don't want cheap power. Efficient batteries are cheap and all cars would be electric by now but the oil industry wont let them, etc. Now, to be sure, I think there is at least some truth to the oil industry influence. But, efficient batteries are a real issue.
Quote from: caseagainstfaith on December 06, 2014, 02:58:17 PM
I was in Serbia 2 years ago. Went to the Nikola Tesla Museum. The 20 minute tour wasn't all that impressive. And the guide gave us some conspiracy theories. That the tower really works but electric companies don't want cheap power. Efficient batteries are cheap and all cars would be electric by now but the oil industry wont let them, etc. Now, to be sure, I think there is at least some truth to the oil industry influence. But, efficient batteries are a real issue.
My dad got me interested in Tesla when I was 15 because my uncle worked for him digging ditches in New York, and also in Colorado. My dad showed me a picture he had that showed regular incandescent lights lit from his Tesla Coil there 14 miles away. I'm sure the one in Warden cliff would have worked. Tesla at the end of his life was not the man he was when younger. My son, the electronic engineer did experience with a large Tesla coil where we did many experience that worked, but one. So we quit the experiment and turned it off to go back in the house band the house started to rumble and shake. We went out side and people came out of their houses for about a mile around our house thinking there was an earth quake.
We had tuned it to 8 cycles a second, the dame frequency the Navy uses to communicate with submarines. It also knocked out peoples radios and TVs. I had a communication license at the time and shut everything down because it was illegal to send radio waves that strong. My son and I have no doubt it would have worked. A funny thing happened after I built the Tesla coil, was son was taught that very day that electricity cannot not go through an insulator. He was telling me about it, so and I took him in the family room and started the Tesla coil up, and had him hold a florescent bulb in his hand, I took a wood yard stick and touched it to the top of the Tesla coil and the bulb glowed, then I had him touch it to the stick and it lit up. He yelled, "that's impossible!"
Resonance is a very strange phenomena, that is not easily explained. If a bunch of young girls are around each other every day, their periods will coincide. On a side note, Tesla drove around in a car that was run on electricity. Solitary
I can't believe that I was left off the list of geniuses. Well shit.. :pirate: :doh: