Telsa Dome by Ford today's WSJ

Henry M scuffling at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 10:44:07 CST 2010


Noting the misspelling of this discussion's subject: When I was a
science fair kinda boy, I always glossed Tesla Coil as Telsa Coil and
pronounced it that way.  I was also totally unaware of Nikola Tesla.

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:08 PM, rich romeo wrote:
> they forgot that 80s rock band named Tesla
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM, grladams wrote:
>> Long-Dead Inventor Nikola Tesla Is Electrifying Hip Techies
>> His Name Is Branding Magic; Thomas Edison Is 'So 20th Century'
>> By DANIEL MICHAELS
>> Decades after he died penniless, Nikola Tesla is elbowing aside his old
>> adversary Thomas Edison in the pantheon of geek gods.
>>
>> When California engineers wanted to brand their new $100,000 electric
>> sports car, one name stood out: Tesla. When circuit designers at microchip
>> producer Nvidia Corp. in 2007 launched a new line of advanced processors,
>> they called them Tesla. And when videogame writers at Capcom Entertainment
>> in Silicon Valley needed a character who could understand alien spaceships
>> for their new Dark Void saga, they found him in Nikola Tesla.



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