child of storm

NIKOLA TESLA

the

eccentric genius

who changed

the

world

As he beamed radio waves at the exact ELF frequency by which earth‘s weather is naturally created, Tesla discovered he could create various weather phenomenon, i.e., rain, wind storms, hail storms. Later, Tesla discovered that this technology could be adapted to create »resonance machines«, out of which came the capability to produce the shaking of

buildings and of the earth, and later, real earthquakes.

WEATHER MACHINE

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»The spread of civilisation may be

likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark,

next a flickering flame, likened to a fire;

then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in

speed and power.«

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science

neurosesdestitute

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obsession

modisty fear

OVERLAP

»I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain

unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.«

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It is capable of destroying an army 200 miles away; it can bring down an airplane like a duck on the wing, and it can penetrate all but the most enormous thicknesses of armor plate.

Since it must be generated at stationary power plants by machines which involve four electrical devices of the most revolutionary sort, Dr. Tesla considers it almost wholly a

defensive weapon. In peace times, the beam will also be used to transmit immense voltages of power over distances limited only by the curvature of the earth.

DEATH RAY

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»like a flash of

lightning and in an

instant the truth was revealed.

I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of

my motor. A thousand secrets of

nature which I might have

stumbled upon accidentally I

would have given for that

one which I had wrestled

from her against all odds and at

the peril of my

existence«

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ticks:

18 napkinswalking 3 times around the block

room number 3327calculations of shapes

obsessions:

glovesplain items

black and whitethe number 3

repulsions:

germspearls

human hairshiny objects

NEUROSES

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One of Nikoli Tesla‘s inventions, a mechanical oscillator-generator, was reportedly responsible for an earthquake in the region of his laboratory at 48 E. Houston St., New York, in 1887.

Today we call what Tesla was experimenting with Tele-Geo-Dynamics, or the art of producing terrestrial motions at a distance. It is a virtually unexplored science with applications in

underground mapping of resources, wireless communications using the earth as a conductor, and power generation possibilities.

EARTHQUAKE MACHINE

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»Today‘s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no

relation to reality.«

»Today‘s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no

relation to reality.«

»Today‘s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no

relation to reality.«

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New York, Jan. 8.—Nikola Tesla, 86 years old, the electrical genius who discovered the fundamental principle of modern radio, was found dead in his hotel room last night.

He died in bed sometime yesterday. Gaunt in his best years, he had lately been wasting away.

Tesla was never married. He had always lived alone, and it is not believed he had any near relatives.

Despite his more than 700 inventions, Tesla was not wealthy. He cared little for money, as long as he could experiment he was happy. Much of the time he did not even have a

laboratory, and worked where he lived.

Tesla was the first to conceive an effective method of utilizing alternating current, and in 1888 patented the induction motor which converted electrical energy into mechanical

energy more effectively and economically than by direct current. Among his other principal inventions are lighting and the Tesla coil.

»The radio, I know I’m its father, but I don’t like it,« Tesla once said. »I just don’t like it. It’s a nuisance. I never listen to it. The radio is a distraction and keeps you from

concentrating. There are too many distractions in this life for quality of thought, and it’s quality of thought, not quantity, that counts.«

Evidently, he did a lot of thinking that never materialized. It was his custom on his birth-day—July 10—to announce to reporters the shape of things to come.

On his 76th birthday, he announced: »The transmission of energy to another planet is only a matter of engineering. I have solved the problem so well I don’t regard it as doubtful.«

On another birthday, Tesla predicted that power would soon be projected without wires through the stratosphere.

When he was 78, Tesla announced he had perfected a »death ray« that would bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy planes 250 miles from a nation’s borders and make millions of

soldiers drop dead in their tracks. His beam, he said, would make war impossible.

By United Press.

WIZARD OF ELECTICITY AND DREAMER FOUND DEAD

child of storm is a projectby Benjamin Appel5th semester AVA

WS 11/12project class »Typografie I«

lecturer: Gina Mönchprint run 1

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