It’s his birthday, and Coturnix has gathered about eleventy billion links to Tesliana (Teslaniana? Is there a word for this, or am I just making things up?)
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It’s his birthday, and Coturnix has gathered about eleventy billion links to Tesliana (Teslaniana? Is there a word for this, or am I just making things up?)
Hehe. I did a very short paper on Tesla a couple years ago. I learned a lot about him, and his influence is quite pervasively in our society, even today.
Today should be national AC current day! Thank a wall outlet near you!
I was in Niagara Falls yesterday and they were dedicating a statue of Tesla with Serbian folk singing.
Never noticed it before, but give Nicola a soul patch, and he’d look a lot like the late great Frank Zappa. Sans the magnificent honker, of course…
Nikola. Ragger! Preview is your fiend…
I was in Niagara Falls yesterday and they were dedicating a statue of Tesla with Serbian folk singing.
Well shoot. If I had known that was gonna happen, I would have gone and videotaped it.
Well, JP, blog about it and I’ll link to it.
Tesla was one of those geniuses who seems to have a lot of crackpots to his legacy. I wonder why?
Incidentally, speaking of electricity, a case can be made that Faraday was the greatest scientist of all time. Keith Laidler argues that if they had been around, Faraday would have won 5 Nobels.