Groonk's Newsmine 2.0: Tesla Archives

March 05, 2008

Lit By the Power of Magnetic Fields

This field has 1,301 florescent bulbs planted in it, and they're all glowing. They aren't plugged into anything, however; they're powered solely from the magnetic fields produced by the power lines above. It's all a large art project by Richard Box...

Looks like a Jedi graveyard or a Tesla experiment gone right.

He did it first, you know.

(via gizmodo)

Posted by Groonk at 06:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Tesla

March 03, 2008

Heat Ray Burns Reporter, Raises Hopes

(via gizmodo)

Posted by Groonk at 02:42 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, Tesla, War

February 13, 2008

Guitar + Tesla Coil = 250,000 volts of Distortion / Win

(via supercharged You Tube, scopeboy, eggradio.com )

Posted by Groonk at 12:14 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Music, Tesla, The Future

February 02, 2008

Nikola Tesla. He Saw Machines Swirling in His Head

The Groonk Nation admires most things Tesla, mad genius that he was. Others are talking about him now. Others are writing books with detailed history.

Studio 360 is podcasting about it all.

(via coilhouse)

Posted by Groonk at 08:39 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of History, Podcast, Streamed Goodness, Technology, Tesla, The Future

January 24, 2008

Tesla Roadster: USA Street Legal, Ready to Sell

Damn. I was looking forward to buying the thing on the auto black market. I'll become a rebel to ween myself of that Black Gold giving teat.

Tesla Motors announced that it has received all regulatory approvals to import the first production Tesla roadster, code-named P1, for sale. While P1 will immediately be given to company chairman Elon Musk, an estimated 600 customers who have signed pre-orders for the car will have to patient for several more months: Series production of the car is scheduled to begin on March 17 of this year.

(via engadget, tesla motors blog, tg daily)

Posted by Groonk at 11:22 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Tesla, USA

December 17, 2007

Man Turns Cordless Drill into Tesla Gun

He wins my forever praise in the process.

(via geekologie)

Posted by Groonk at 01:39 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Tesla, Video

December 12, 2007

Have Yourself a Tesla Powered Christmas

That aussie fella's at it again.

Tesla Downunder

(via wired)

Posted by Groonk at 07:01 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Tesla

December 03, 2007

Tesla's Missing Papers. About 6 of them.

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called "death beam." So it was natural that the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving weaponry. Some were concerned that Tesla's papers might fall into the hands of the Axis powers or the Soviets.
The morning after the inventor's death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic´ hurried to his uncle's room at the Hotel New Yorker. He was an up-and-coming Yugoslav official with suspected connections to the communist party in his country. By the time he arrived, Tesla's body had already been removed, and Kosanovic´ suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle's effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept—a notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked "Government."

There are samples of the papers on the PBS site. Six documents in all.
Lovely mental steak for newly indoctrined Tesla geeks like myself.

(via pbs, digg)

Posted by Groonk at 06:04 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of History, Science, Tesla, USA

July 25, 2007

The Tesla Sports Cars a Reality this Fall

Tesla Love Future

It's electric and it's expensive.

The Green Folk will love/hate it.

The Detroit Carmakers will hate/love it.

Bottom line: it will be a shit-disturber. Much like Tesla himself.

(via buzzfeed)

Posted by Groonk at 04:38 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, Tesla

February 28, 2007

Tesla coil Anti-Car Theft Device Made of Awesome and Win. And Electricity.

If Tesla were alive today, he'd zap our enemies with his hand-held death ray, power America's iPods remotely with his stabby thoughts, then run into a locked kitchen to have supper away from prying eyes.

He'd do all that and make this sweet ass anti-car theft system out of a coil that bears his name. Like Australian Peter Terren did above.

(via the newly smooth looking geekologie)

Posted by Groonk at 07:19 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Technology, Tesla

November 16, 2006

Canada Knows All of Tesla's Secrets

Catching up on my Diggnation podcasts I learned of this documentary "The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla" on Google Video.

I've learned a a few things about Tesla recently. The man was a freaking insane genius. I think he is the epitome of both words in one freakishly tall man.

That's the full documentary above. A full 46 minutes of the odds and ends of Tesla. I wonder if it mentions the Five Fists of Science.

(via diggnation)

Posted by Groonk at 03:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Google-fied, Just Freaking Neat, Research, Science, Tesla, Video

February 21, 2006

Insomania: Five Fists of Science newly covered

New covers for Matt Fraction's latest graphic novel love-fest: The Five Fists of Science.

Even got a release date and everything.

FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE GN
written by MATT FRACTION
art & cover by STEVEN SANDERS
May 17 * 112 pg * FC * $12.99

True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business, selling world peace.

So what happened?

Only now can the tale be told-- in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of the mankind.
----
SCIENCE!
No longer the realm of the fop, the dandy, or the physicist!
SCIENCE!
No longer the purview of landed gentry or the monied upper classes
SCIENCE is TODAY! SCIENCE is NOW!
SCIENCE IS FOR YOU!

Previously mentioned here.

(via matt fraction)

Posted by Groonk at 03:49 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Just Freaking Neat, Marketing, Tesla

February 19, 2006

REPOST: Tesla's "Whirligig"

Or rather:

" Tesla's 0 Time Reference Generator"

This was constructed by Tesla in the 1920's, and was said to be a strange device, as it when it is turned on, you can hear it lock into the rotation of the earth.

(via warrenellis)

Posted by Groonk at 10:43 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Research, Tesla

August 29, 2005

Matt Fraction Could by My New Hero

"The Five Fists of Science is the story of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla teaming up to bring about world peace by compulsion-- and how that peace will interfere with the plans of an evil science cabal led by Thomas Edison," says writer Matt Fraction. "An all-out war between magic and science is fought on the streets of New York City in 1899, and it is an absolutely true story, up to a point."

(via badsignal)

Posted by Groonk at 06:06 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books, Comics, Tesla