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17 Jul 2014, 10:29 am

Woot! Tesla's archive of articles can now be found on the internet! Enjoy.

http://www.goodnews.name/archives/849



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17 Jul 2014, 12:10 pm

Thanks!! :D



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24 Jul 2014, 10:18 am

Any time. I may not talk/type much, but I love to share information. Tesla wanted to share his discoveries. :D :D



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10 Aug 2014, 11:04 am

Tesla is my all time hero. He made some of his greatest discoveries while in a laboratory less than a 10 minute drive from where I grew up so I have always been interested in his work. Thank for posting this.



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10 Aug 2014, 7:01 pm

AnnabelleLee wrote:
Woot! Tesla's archive of articles can now be found on the internet! Enjoy.

http://www.goodnews.name/archives/849


can i get it without accessing a torrent???



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12 Aug 2014, 11:08 am

Tesla was a genuine genius, however in some regards he was a crackpot. He believed in the existence of aether, an elastic light carrying substance that fills all of space, but miraculously does not slow planets down as they move through space under the influence of gravity. This in s;pite of the fact the Michelson and Morley disproved the existence of aether in their famous set of interferometer experiments in 1885. He also though he could transmit substantial electrical currents through the earth. He had no idea that the core of the earth is molten iron and nickle and would diffuse any electrical flow.

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12 Aug 2014, 11:09 am

ruveyn wrote:
Tesla was a genuine genius, however in some regards he was a crackpot. He believed in the existence of aether, an elastic light carrying substance that fills all of space, but miraculously does not slow planets down as they move through space under the influence of gravity. This in s;pite of the fact the Michelson and Morley disproved the existence of aether in their famous set of interferometer experiments in 1885. He also though he could transmit substantial electrical currents through the earth. He had no idea that the core of the earth is molten iron and nickle and would diffuse any electrical flow.

Even so he pioneered alternating current, he invented the high gain electrical coil having his name and he is the true inventor of radio, not Marconi.

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18 Aug 2014, 5:18 am

ruveyn wrote:
Tesla was a genuine genius, however in some regards he was a crackpot. He believed in the existence of aether, an elastic light carrying substance that fills all of space, but miraculously does not slow planets down as they move through space under the influence of gravity. This in s;pite of the fact the Michelson and Morley disproved the existence of aether in their famous set of interferometer experiments in 1885. He also though he could transmit substantial electrical currents through the earth. He had no idea that the core of the earth is molten iron and nickle and would diffuse any electrical flow.

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I'm not sure that this makes him a crackpot. Most physicists at the time believed in the existence of aether. Even Hendrik Lorentz continued to believe in the existence of aether until the day he died, even though he was the one who discovered the formulas for time dilation and length contraction independently of Einstein.