Posted by:
karriew
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Date: February 10, 2013 10:10AM
He's asleep, after a long night of debauchery, so I will chime in what my boyfriend tells me.
Who is the onc scientist/inventor that we can thank above all others for the wonderful world we live in? By wonderful, I point to all these 'gadgets' we use daily like computers, lights, central heat/air. Our darkness is now turned into light. Well?
Edison was important as he perfected the incandescent light bulb. Edison also gave us moving pictures and sound recording. Unfortunately, no one, including Edison, thought about joining the two technologies until the late 1920's. Morse, he envisioned communication by wire (the telegraph). Bell, who took communication via hard wire one step further and added voice into the mix. Marconi, he envisioned 'wireless' communication; which gave rise to the radio, television and wireless networks.
When you come right down to it, Nikola Tesla envisioned and perfected Alternating Current which made transmission of electric current efficient over long distances. Tesla was a 'futurist' and tried to invent ways to make wireless electrical transmission possible. One of his first attempts was his invention of the Tesla Coil.
My boyfriend is not a physicist, he does teach math and electronics. Halloween at his house is the mad scientists laboratory as he fires up Tesla Coils, Jacob's ladders and brings a halloween store Frankenstein to life. Around the house, he has synched thunder sounds to lights. He even gives demonstrations by putting a regular old light bulb near the coil (it is four feet tall) and getting it to light. Tesla coils are dangerous; don't do that one unless you know what you are doing. I wish the heck we could post pictures on these forums, maybe a FB picture link would be o.k. Last Halloween, I got to play the vixen lab assistant.
Christmas is even better as he incorporates the Tesla Coil into a plastic nativity scene. He also has a 64 channel light system he built using a very old computer motherboard, synched to Christmas music. Last Christmas, we had hundreds of people drive by, some actually stopped to enjoy the show.
My boyfriend has a picture of Tesla in his garage laboratory the dining room and in the front room. His shrine, so to speak, is the Halloween and Christmas light shows. The boyfriend always go on and on about how Tesla changed the world.
My recommendation: TESLA.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2013 10:13AM by karriew.