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Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World

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In addition to AC generation, his experimental opus was very wide and includes rotating magnetic field, Tesla coil transformer, and the list goes on. One of the better known patents (among 700+) was also wireless transmission, which was unfairly attributed to Marconi for a long time. This is not to say that Marconi was not brilliant as well, but just speaks about Tesla's genius.

I cannot upmod this enough. This man is an idol of mine and a huge source of pride for every Serbian geek out there.

Have you visited the museum?

While I was writing the book I made a conscious decision to downplay Edison and highlight Tesla to try to rectify the situation a bit.

True geeks know that Tesla was the man.

I am embarrassed to say that I haven't yet. I've been back to Belgrade at least twice since I've emigrated to Canada, but I didn't make the time to go.

I'm planning to go back very soon, so that will be a priority.

With pride, I can say that I have visited the museum myself in Belgrade. I also attended the elementary school called Nikola Tesla in the near by city called Novi Sad.

And I attended the Nikola Tesla elementary school in a suburb of Belgrade called Rakovica. :)

And I in Zagreb! ;)

Speaking of museums, the Technical Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, has a daily demonstrations of Tesla's most important inventions.

Does that museum offer information in English?

This is what I could find quickly: http://www.mdc.hr/tehnicki/en/07-velikani.htm

That seems very interesting. I need to get myself over there and see it. If you have time would you mind posting about this on the book's home page: http://www.geekatlas.com/forum/topics/i-cant-believe-xyz-isn...

Here is a nice documentary titled "The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2188562935002257117

By the way, congrats on publication jgrahamc!

Nikola Tesla, the greatest hacker ever

The diversity of his inventions are truly remarkable (a good list is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)

If these were all his publicized works, just imagine the kind of ideas that he never told anyone and were just in his head in secrecy.

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