Nikola+Tesla

Inventions
Nikola Tesla was one of those scientific minds that is constantly teetering on the edge between brilliance and utter insanity. His experiments, while shrouded in mystery, were as controversial as they were revolutionary to the world of science. From developing a wireless form of power to allegedly creating a "death ray," Nikola Tesla was one smart cookie. One of the coolest applications of electricity was made my Tesla: the Tesla Coil, which uses polyphase alternating current in a transformer to produce extreme voltages. While they don't really have any applications in real life, they sure are awesome. Tesla also created almost everything to do with radios, antennas, tuners, he even sent a message 40 kilometers in 1897! While a lot of his work was sneaked by Guglielmo Marconi, patent law eventually recognized Tesla as the true father of the radio. His conflict with Thomas Edison over AC and DC currents is one of the great physics debacles in history. Click the following link for just how awesome Tesla Coils are: [|Super Mario Brothers on a Tesla Coil]

Magnetic Fields: What We Use in P30
Tesla was also well versed in magnetics, and rumour has it that he even created a flying maching that utilized elecromagnetism to combat gravity and fly! One of his cooler experiments: the Columbus Egg can be seen here: [|Nikola Tesla - Columbus Egg - 1893 Chicago] Tesla's contributions to the world of science weren't ignored: his name is now used as the standard unit of measurement for Magnetic Fields, the Tesla.

Links
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