Nikola Tesla: Futuristic Audiophile ?

mrbigbluelight

Is there ANYTHING this guy didn't think of ?




Solid-state Tesla coil.
The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
It is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics.
It's been suggested that a good name for this coil would be the "Zeusaphone".
Perhaps .... Polk TSi's ?


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Solid State Musical Tesla Coil
Joe DiPrima and Duck demonstrate the Solid State Musical Tesla Coil (from The Geek Group).


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Tesla Cage of Death

Just because.
The latest research from the boys down at Polk Labs.


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Biggg Tesla Coil of Oklahoma

15 foot tall Tesla coil with max sparks of 26 feet. Runs up to 55,000 watts in Newcastle, Oklahoma.
Why ? Well .... why not ?


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engtaz

Way cool

jakelm

You know Tesla developed a way to generate electricity through the ground. I home would only have to drive a coper pole into the ground so many feet (like a ground rod) and recieve free electricity.

After fighting Edison over designs (which some were stolen from Telsa, the AC generator and transformer) and creating "electric" ground, among other brilliant things. He mysteriously died.

He was an electric genius.

schwarcw

jakelm wrote: »

You know Tesla developed a way to generate electricity through the ground. I home would only have to drive a coper pole into the ground so many feet (like a ground rod) and recieve free electricity.

After fighting Edison over designs (which some were stolen from Telsa, the AC generator and transformer) and creating "electric" ground, among other brilliant things. He mysteriously died.

He was an electric genius.

His greatest achievement was his recogniztion that AC current could be transmitted over long distances from the intial point of generation. He began this work in earnest in 1887. This vision essentially created the electrical utility industry as we know it today. Electricity is generated and transported over large distances to users everywhere. Tesla died over 40 years later at the young age of 86, hardly a mystery.

jakelm

jakelm wrote: »

He mysteriously died.

.

Wrong choice of words on my part. He died as a poor old man, who lost everything, for some unknown reason.

Developing an AC current to travel long distances is truely remarkable. But imagine wireless electricity.

AndyGwis

Tesla also invented cloning and looks a whole lot like David Bowie to me.

PolkThug

You're leaving out the most important thing, he was the Father of Bass. "discovered that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 Hertz"

Demiurge

Shocking.

MGPK

PolkThug wrote: »

You're leaving out the most important thing, he was the Father of Bass. "discovered that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 Hertz"

The resonant frequency for human beings is 7 Hz.

PhantomOG

but what is the frequency of brown noise?

AndyGwis

what is the frequency of brown noise?

Is that just a fancy way of saying "what does a **** sound like?"

Jstas

MGPK wrote: »

The resonant frequency for human beings is 7 Hz.

Are you sure? I remember reading somewhere that it was around 11 Hz. Or at least that's what the inner ear resonates at and that can cause a loss of equilibrium...the "brown" note.


Found some info:

http://www.tetrawatch.net/links/links.php?id=health&list=frequency

schwarcw

Since he was an employee of Westinghouse. We have a conference room and several portraits of him around the building. I'd draw a mustache on him but he already had a nice bush one. He spent all hi money trying to invent new things. Some of which were very bizarre. Check him out in Wilkpedia. He was a genius far ahead of his time.

mhardy6647

Tesla was a (mostly) charlatan and showman, who carefully cultivated his image but ultimately wore out his welcome with his financial backers. Yes, he did have a few good ideas, but also a lot of impractical ones.

That said, Westinghouse's and Edison's feuds with him were uncalled for.

Edison helped to invent the electric chair, it is said, partly do demonstrate how unsafe alternating current was! OK, Tesla sort of won that one :-)

EDIT: Yes, the apochryphal "brown note" is 7 Hz. No truth to that, though...
11 Hz is about the optimal tonearm/cartridge resonance, that must be what you were thinking of.
http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/tonearmcartridge.html

PolkThug

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Tesla was a charlatan and showman.

blasphemy!

Early B.

PolkThug wrote: »

blasphemy!

Amen.

jakelm

I couldnt see us living in a 12v world. Car audio, home audio, all the same???? YUUUUUUUKKKKKKKK!!!!!:p

Edison had the lightbulb, that whimpy peice of crap.......:D

High voltage electric chair...now we're talkin......:eek:

ESavinon

MGPK wrote: »

The resonant frequency for human beings is 7 Hz.

I resonate pretty badly after having tex/mex.

schwarcw

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Tesla was a (mostly) charlatan and showman . . . . Yes, he did have a few good ideas, but also a lot of impractical ones. [/url]

Mark, seven or so years ago at the end of the millenium, a group of Nobel Prize Laureates and distinguished scientists put together a list, attempting to rank the most important scientific inventions or advances during the 20th Century. The "electrification" of society via the alternating current was considered to be the #1 achievement in the 20th century.

Charlatan? Showman? Maybe, but I doubt that history will remember him that way in the next Millenium.

Carl

jakelm

Do you all realize how hot it would be without AC>???:D

schwarcw

For those of you who are interested, Nikolai Tesla was granted 136 patents, 113 of them in the US. No small feat. Look Here

mrbigbluelight

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Tesla was a (mostly) charlatan and showman, who carefully cultivated his image but ultimately wore out his welcome with his financial backers. Yes, he did have a few good ideas, but also a lot of impractical ones.

That said, Westinghouse's and Edison's feuds with him were uncalled for.

Edison helped to invent the electric chair, it is said, partly do demonstrate how unsafe alternating current was! OK, Tesla sort of won that one :-) [

"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on." - Thomas Edison

Yes, God said "Let there be Light" ....then Edison stole the idea and took credit for it. :rolleyes:

A few other Edison "borrowings": http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=9-Inventions-Edison-Did-Not-Make

And as for Edison, the Humanitarian..... well, whaddya say, Topsy ?

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It's been said that what bothered people like Edison about Tesla was that Tesla wanted to give to humanity all of the things he invented. He wanted FREE electric power for all mankind.

Edison was a ...... **** ! :eek:

You can look that up ...... somewhere.

lanion

Tesla died poor because, while he made absurd amounts of money, he also spent absurds amount of money trying to bring all of his ideas to life, which ended with his famed Death Ray which the Army was not interested in, as at that point he was a little too far on the crazy side of genius.