The Biggest Nothing http://www.dennisdiclaudio.net/blog a weblog of no statistical consequence Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:32:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tesla (the Scientist, Not the Hair Band) Vindicated! http://www.dennisdiclaudio.net/blog/2009/08/27/60/ http://www.dennisdiclaudio.net/blog/2009/08/27/60/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:42:16 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://www.dennisdiclaudio.net/blog/?p=60 Thousands and thousands of years ago (or something – I’m not good with lengths of time), Nikola Tesla had a dream: to transmit electricity through thin air. And despite a number of demoralizing successes, he kept his nose to the lodestone and eventually — through a lot of hard work and determination — died without seeing his dream accepted by the greater scientific community.

I like to think that if he could see this video demonstration of wireless electrical transfer, he’d say something like, “How did that little man get inside this box here on your desk?”

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