Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

Slashdot: The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC

"Today the last section of the old Edison DC power grid will be shutdown in
Manhattan. 'The last snip of Con Ed's direct current system will take place at
10 East 40th Street, near the Mid-Manhattan Library. That building, like the
thousands of other direct current users that have been transitioned over the
last several years, now has a converter installed on the premises that can take
alternating electricity from the Con Ed power grid and adapt it on premises.'
I guess Tesla finally won the argument."

[XNote]

Wired: Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point

"Edison had established direct current at the standard for electricity distribution
and was living large off the patent royalties, royalties he was in no mood to
lose when George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla showed up with alternating
current."

[Ike]

An interview with Nikola Tesla - Colliers, January 30, 1926

"A new sex order is coming--with the female as superior. You will communicate
instantly by simple vest-pocket equipment. Aircraft will travel the skies, unman-
ned, driven and guided by radio. Enormous power will be transmitted great dis-
tances without wires. Earthquakes will become more and more frequent.

Temperate zones will turn frigid or torrid. And some of these awe-inspiring dev-
elopments, says Tesla, are not so very far off."

[delovski]

Slashdot: Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale

"In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant
to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but
also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for
one and all. It was the inventor's biggest project, and his most audacious.

The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18
stories tall. ... But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly
for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was for-
ced to abandon its adjoining laboratory."

[Ike]

Tesla ispred Tita

"Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies"

[Ike]

teslauniverse.com - To The Editor of The New York Times

"Much has been said about Yugoslavia and its people, but many Americans
may be under a wrong impression for political enemies and..."

[Ike]

Y! - Nikola Tesla Lived 24 Years Longer Than He Should Have. Did He Solve the Secret to Longevity?

"The physical law which divides twenty-four hours into day and night also
divides man's life into two periods--one in which he lives and another in which
he rests".