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Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius
- massa 17y agoAnd a vampire! He is probably reading this! :-D
- tfincannon 17y agoThe full text of "Prodigal Genius", a somewhat hagiographic but still fascinating biography of Tesla, is online at http://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla/oniell-tesla.html http://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla/oniell-tesla.html.
- gruseom 17y agoYears ago I read about Tesla that he would visualize a machine in his head, start a simulation of it running, then come back later and inspect the screws for wear - all of this in his imagination. Does anyone know whether that story is true? or where it came from?
- tfincannon 17y agoTesla told his story to the author of "Prodigal Genius" (1944), who wrote: "What Tesla had discovered was a means of creating a rotating magnetic field, a magnetic whirlwind in space which possessed fantastically new and intriguing properties...It was not necessary for him to construct models of copper and iron: in his mental workshop he constructed them in wide variety...The mental constructs were built with meticulous care as concerned size, strength, design and material; and they were tested mentally, he maintained, by having them run for weeks-after which time he would examine them thoroughly for signs of wear."
- gruseom 17y agoYou nailed it. Yay! Thanks.
- TriinT 17y agoHere's a cool documentary on Tesla: Tesla: Master of Lightning http://www.pbs.org/tesla http://www.pbs.org/tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk