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Re: Tesla or Westinghouse?

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Nathaniel Davis wrote:

An interesting film was debued by Nova on the Discovery Channel on Nikola
Tesla and his theories.

NOVA is selling this tape on their website for around $60, but a quick
look at amazon.com shows the same tape for $15. At least I think it's the
same tape. The tape's title is the same as for the NOVA show.

amazon.com Tesla, Master of Lightning
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051SHA/


PBS page for that show (w/articles, etc.)
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/
Tesla's life http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/
Inside the lab http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/
Teachers' sect. http://www.pbs.org/tesla/tt/
Interviews http://www.pbs.org/tesla/dis/
Resources http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/


The controversy between Edison and Tesla is of profound historical
significance. It is important that this be made known to students. Science
abounds with such fracases; it is important that students are made aware of
the history of science.

Of even greater significance is the fact the Marconi used Tesla's
inventions to transmit signals across the Atlantic. Obviously Maxwell and
Hertz are "inventors" of radio, but Tesla is usually missing from the
history books. From what I can gather (and ignoring the history books),
Marconi took the Branlee coherer and Tesla's multi-kilowatt high frequency
oscillator, paired them up, and sold shipboard wireless systems to the
world. At the same time Tesla was was totally uninterested in publicity
coups, and instead was trying to broadcast RF at power levels where it
could run motors and lights at great distances. Did he lose the
horserace? But the winner apparantly took the prize by riding a stolen
horse.


Here's another great Tesla website. It had been part the engineering site
Chipcenter.com in years past, but now can only be found on the Wayback
Machine archive at archive.org:

CHIPCENTER: The amazing life of Nikola Tesla

I. Genius
http://web.archive.org/web/20010602083213/http://onlinetools.chipcenter.com/netsim/tesla/tesla1.html

II. Electrical Wizard
http://web.archive.org/web/20010616202512/onlinetools.chipcenter.com/netsim/tesla/tesla2.html

III. Mad scientist
http://web.archive.org/web/20010616203125/onlinetools.chipcenter.com/netsim/tesla/tesla3.html

IV. Science fiction
http://web.archive.org/web/20010616204128/onlinetools.chipcenter.com/netsim/tesla/tesla4.html



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