Thursday, July 09, 2009

Happy Birthday, Nikola


It's the birthday (1856) of the man who invented alternating current - and made the modern world possible, Nikola Tesla.

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At 11:34 AM, October 02, 2009 Blogger Beer1941 had this to say...

The Name of Tesla (only Tesla, no first name) played a roll in my electric/ radiotechnical/electronic education-period, some 55 till 45 years ago. It was the time that there were electron tubes used in both radio and later on, (black and white)TV-receivers. Well, with the ages as from 13 till 23 years, it was wonderful business to carry out experiments with AC/DC- converters and powersupplies, accumulators, chargers, coils, transformers, resistors, capacitors and what more have you. Fun of the highest level. It was in those years that I found
"proof" of the correctness of the Tesla assertions by at last producing enormous sparkgaps generated with self-made equipment. Ofcourse Tesla made me suffer many an electric shock as well as burnholes in the skin of my fingers and hands. Yet, as said: Great pleasure because the sparks were so beautiful, intrigueing and unpredictable; the latter as I myself was, in those years of hormones racing through ones body.

 

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