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JEFF9114
NIKOLA TESLA
May 27 2009, 6:59 PM EDT | Post edited: May 27 2009, 6:59 PM EDT
Time period: 1856-1943, 19th-20th centuries
Location(s): Austrian Empire and later, America
Main objective(s): to tap the 'universal power ether' anytime and anywhere.
Fringe theories/concepts: Alternating Current, cohesive particle beams, radio waves.
Famous experiment(s): the successful 1891 "Tesla Effect" demos in upstate New York; and the disasterous 1891 "Resonant Frequency" research in New York, NY (he nearly shook the building which housed his lab down).
Technology (used/created): True inventor of Radio; the Tesla Coil; Wireless Electricity Delivery Systems; A/C (polyphase) current; Flourescent light tubes; early x-ray tube research.
Most well-known for: A/C current; America's greatest electrical engineer
Discoveries: Polyphase Electrical Current generation; That an ozone/nitrous acid complex causes damage to biological systems over-exposed to X-rays; the basic principles for RADAR and radio controlled craft and weapons. A GREAT MAN WITH OUT HIM THERE WOULD BE NO AC, RADAR, CONTROL FRINGE LIVE'S ON
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Icarus99
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1. RE: NIKOLA TESLA
May 28 2009, 8:59 AM EDT | Post edited: May 28 2009, 8:59 AM EDT
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