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bngbuck
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USA
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 Posted - 11/12/2007 : 19:58:07
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I've been fascinated by Tesla coils ever since I was 12, when I got excited by watching one operating at the New York World's Fair in 1940! So I went home and built one. It made about a 15 inch discharge which scared the shit out of my poor momma. I have often wondered why someone besides old Nick didn't build a really big one! here in New Zealand!
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Edited by - bngbuck on 11/12/2007 21:42:36
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Dave W.
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USA
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bngbuck
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USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2007 : 21:47:00 [Permalink]
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Thanks Dave, you are a severe taskmaster! However, after several years herding kindergarteners like me, I can understand your impatience! I need praise, how am I doing?
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Dave W.
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USA
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 23:29:29 [Permalink]
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| In a Chapters (big Canadian bookstore chain), I once saw a book on wild amatuer science (things like people making "death rays" from microve ovens, trying to fuse hydrogen in their garage etc. One of the chapters concerned a monster Tesla coil that someone made for a Tesla coil competition. I am not sure what would be more entertaiing at such a contest - the Tesla coils or the people who made them. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/13/2007 : 00:20:42 [Permalink]
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That damned thing is just so cool. Tesla rules, Edison drools.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/13/2007 : 10:36:54 [Permalink]
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Dave.....
Hey, that post was my acerbic way of thanking you for pushing me to get off my lazy ass and start posting links! I'm sorry, Dave. No offense intended!
Oh what a tangled track we leave, when first we practice to conceive!
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2007 : 11:01:31 [Permalink]
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Just think, Mooner, if it hadn't been for Nicola, we would all be hard-wired to storage batteries or straight-line generators, General Electric would own the entire world instead of just a good piece of it, Edison's ancestors would be richer than the Walton's, and Larry Craig wouldn't have an identity crisis (no AC,just DC!)
god, we owe a lot to Tesla!
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2007 : 14:53:00 [Permalink]
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Ghost Skeptic.....
If these wackos really turn you on, take a look here! or go to the Ring here:
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World's largest Tesla Coil
