Tesla and Wireless Power videos

Here is a short bio-film on Nikola Tesla. It is mostly what we already learned, but you will see some more pictures of the man and his experiments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0

This is what it would have been like to visit Tesla's labratory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4kXgDBFhw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7j5LKmd3I&feature=related

Here is a wireless electricity demonstration. If you click around on the "Related Videos" or search for "wireless electricity." You might find something else that is cool. If you do, post a link in the comments and I will put it on the main board.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIhPayFBE9c&feature=related

Tesla also wrote an autobiography called "My Inventions" I have read the first chapter (all the chapters are very short). Here is an excerpt talking about Tesla slipping on the ice and catching himself:

A short time ago I was returning to my hotel. It was a bitter cold night, the ground slippery, and no taxi to be had. Half a block behind me followed another man, evidently as anxious as myself to get under cover. Suddenly my legs went up in the air. At the same instant there was a flash in my brain. The nerves responded, the muscles contracted. I swung 180 degrees and landed on my hands. I resumed my walk as though nothing had happened when the stranger caught up with me. "How old are you?" he asked, surveying me critically. "Oh, about fifty-nine," I replied, "What of it?" "Well," said he, "I have seen a cat do this but never a man."

Weird guy. Chapter 1 is entitled "Early Life" and Chapter 2 is "Extraordinary Experiences." I hope to read the whole thing sometime soon. This biography is available for free on the internet.

biography link:

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html

Also, there is a sweet American rock band that named themselves TESLA! Good for them, they must have listened to their history teacher when they were in school. Here is a link to one of their hits. It is called "Love Song." Songs like this are known as POWER BALLADS. A ballad is another word for a love song. Add in some electric guitar and awesomeness and it becomes a power ballad. These were very popular during the 1980s.

Love Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aubjDJc07E