… discharges. of extreme tensions, approximating those of lightning, manifest a marked tendency to pass upward, away … air strata, a process, which possibly takes place in silent lightning discharges frequently witnessed on hot and sultry …
… of Nikola Tesla Mark Twain And Nikola Tesla: Thunder And Lightning [5] The famous writer and humorist Mark Twain once … exchanged stories, laughed, and sometimes showed off the lightning' that Twain so appreciated. The first meeting …
… Tesla’s lightning and thunder are bigger and stronger than those in …
… weans. A Meteorological Display. It seemed like a terrific lightning display, with the snapping, crackling sound, …
… 2). A star-shaped wheel rotated over a stationary electrode accomplished the make and break of the current. This … design resulted from Page's experiments in which a metal rod connected to one side of a primary coil was dragged over … of the coil was connected to the battery and the metal rod dragged across the rough surface of the file, small …
… in the small hamlet of Smiljan, Croatia, in 1856 during a lightning storm. He attended the University of Graz in … and, from this experimental station, created 60-foot-long lightning bolts and measured the resonant frequency of the …
… second a current so highly intensified as to flash forth as lightning. In an apparatus of large dimensions this … rank with Franklin's kite, which showed electricity and lightning to be one; with Bell's disks, which either …
… possibly due to electrical disturbances generated by the lightning travelling around the whole planet. If this … an article in Electrical World and Engineer , May 5, 1904. Lightning In His Hand - The Life Story Of Nikola Tesla , by …
… verified and patented by Dr. Paulo Correa). The book Lightning in His Hand: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla 13 … June 2002, p. 34. Hunt, I. and Draper, W.V. 1964. Lightning in His Hand: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla , Omni …
… lad, he devised several inventions, including one that used lightning bugs to power a small engine. Apparently, this … the iconoclastic inventor would talk to himself during lightning storms, and in his autobiography (serialized in … the better known photos of himself sitting among bolts of lightning surrounding his turbines and generators.) Niagara …