Topic: So did anyone catch modern marvels last night?

[eldar]

It was on Nikola Tesla. Seems that he invented the basis for ignition systems we use in cars and trucks with gas engines.
Seems that DC current DOES flow from negative to positive. Sure modern marvels may not give every detail but they cant be blatantly wrong! Guess I was right when I tried to tell people that. 

[syth82]

Well, I guess I missed the arguement, but I'd have backed you up. It's really pretty simple to understand, except for the fact everyone learns it wrong.

[tramp]

there's s museum in colorado springs on tesla
very interesting

[SD750F]

Eldar,

You are correct. An electron has a negative charge. So a free electron is attracted and flows to positive charge (opposites attract).

The standard or better known as conventional current flow was originated by Benjamin Franklin long before the flow of electrons was known. So the conventional current flow is still used today of electrons flowing from positive or abundance of electrons to negative or lack of electrons.

[eldar]

In this case though, the standard is wrong. It would be like saying water flows uphill

[DammitDan]

Only if the hill makes a complete circuit 

[fuzzybutt]

i loved the pics of him standing behind stalin, moving stalins arms so he could play the theremin. nikolai tesla was one hell of a smart guy. he was lucky to get out of the ussr when he did

[eldar]

He did amazing things. There are still people trying to test out tesla coils. They are trying to get enough funding to make a full scale one to test on.

[Really?]

I loved the Tesla coils in Command and Conquer.  'Specially when playing a human over the old dial-up modem!

[KARamsay]

TIVO!!!

I can't wait to watch that one! 

[Duke McDukiedook]

Did they get into the Death Ray? My favorite of Tesla's toys. 
Yeah, he totally got hosed by Edision and Westinghouse, died a penniless man of questionable circumstances just like Otto Diesel.
Had a better design for the New York subway system on AC power than Edison's DC design- oh well, we all know how that played out.
The FBI collected all his designs and data after he died, wonder what they did with all that material?

[eldar]

Oh I would bet they have developed everything he planned and then some. How do we know haarp is not gleaned from tesla?

[Duke McDukiedook]

Hehe, now you are catching on Eldar, what else did he have in that bag of tricks?
It was also said that he was able to transmit AC power through the ground to be tapped freely by everyone on earth. Had part of Colorado Springs wired for light before any other cities were lighted.
David Bowie played him in a movie not too long ago with Hugh Jackman (Illusionist?).
Interesting fellow indeed.

[eldar]

He was trying to transmit power over air, that was one of the reasons for the tesla coil.

[cafe750]

It was on Nikola Tesla. Seems that he invented the basis for ignition systems we use in cars and trucks with gas engines.
Seems that DC current DOES flow from negative to positive. Sure modern marvels may not give every detail but they cant be blatantly wrong! Guess I was right when I tried to tell people that. 

I guess you've never seen a positive ground car then....

[eldar]

Doesn't matter. DC flows neg to pos regardless of the "ground".

[Pinhead]

Watch the movie "The Prestige."

He got completely hosed by many people. He was a brilliant inventor but far too trusting. He invented radio long before Marconi. He demonstrated the advantage of AC power when compared to less efficient DC (and fought Edison about it). Pretty much all of the modern marvels that we use today were in one way or another thought up by Tesla.

[eldar]

The man was genius no doubt about it. I wonder what other marvels he might have come up with if not for his strange death.