nikola tesla

[zaphodbb]

ok this is a departure for me from the usual and i may be teaching my granny to suck eggs here but i have known about nikola tesla for many years and i find it amazing not a lot of people i have met have heard of him, considering the utter genius of the man , ok this is only a snippet of his life if you want to know more there is lots of sites with stuff about him, but please have a look if you have never heard of him i think you will be surprised

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0]YouTube - Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard[/ame]

[Mr Pumpy]

You were right Zap, never heard of him.
What a story that is, there's loads about him on Wiki.

[chroma]

did you know he invented an engine? well a turbine technicly. the theory behind which is absoloutly mindblowing (in that unlike conventonal turbines this one has no blades).
Get a shaft attatch several discs to it (completely smooth and equaly spaced) insert that in a sealed housing with an inlet and exhaust port at either end then pass a fluid or a gas over the discs and it will turn due to friction created by the viscosity of the fluid/gas. It gets up to a fair speed too, a few thousand RPM is not unheard of.

The idea got off to a bad start as the technology for manufacturing discs was fairly weak and they kept warping at high RPM causing failures.

He was best known for his alternating current work and building of great towers to tazer the shit out of enemy troops in Command and Conquer. however he did way more than just AC electricity.

My favorite scientist of all time and someone i would have liked to have met. everyone was all about Einstein or Edison but i bet if it was a match to the death old Nikola could have totaly killed them both with his bare hands. this assumption is based on his girly name, so he must have taken shit for it and became a MAN's man like in that Cash song "A boy named Sue."

[Mr Pumpy]

Christ Zap, youve set him off now.