65 Awesome Nikola Tesla Tattoo Designs
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Imaginable Tattoo Design On Shoulder
A lot of people associate Tesla with the “War of the Currents” he fought with the one-time employer and later rival Thomas Edison over the standard form of electricity. Direct current, or DC, was the champion of Edison, while alternating current, or AC, was the champion of Tesla and George Westinghouse. Edison’s attempt to malign Tesla’s invention by advocating the electric chair as an execution method to demonstrate how dangerous AC was ultimately failed, despite AC ultimately winning over DC.
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Winning Tattoo Design On Arm
Tesla also carried out groundbreaking research in electric light, electric motors, radio, x-ray, remote control, radar, wireless communications, and robotics, and created his famous transformer, the Tesla coil. Tesla was often not properly recognized for his contributions, while other inventors were given credit for improving upon his work. Tesla obtained around 300 patents during his lifetime.
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Creative Tattoo Design On Arm
Tesla had a formidable work ethic throughout his lifetime, keeping a strict schedule. According to some, he slept for only two hours a night. At Delmonico’s in New York, and later at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, he frequently took his dinner at the same table. The man was obsessed with germs, and he always kept 18 napkins on hand. In addition to being obsessed with the number three, he was prone to carrying out compulsive rituals involving three. When he was a child, he would develop a fit when he saw pearls, and he couldn’t even touch the hair.
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Cool Tattoo Design On Arm
Tesla’s electro-mechanical oscillator, a steam-powered electrical generator, was developed in an attempt to replace inefficient steam engines used to turn generators, but it wasn’t as efficient as steam turbines. It is reported that Tesla told friends about how his experiments with the oscillator at his Manhattan lab set off vibrations that sent shockwaves through nearby buildings, causing the ground to shake and prompting police to call. After the machine oscillated at the resonance frequency of his own building, Tesla believed he was in danger of causing an earthquake, so he allegedly smashed it with a sledgehammer. The claims, which gave the machine the nickname “Tesla’s Earthquake Machine,” were later debunked by the Mythbusters (they felt vibrations from hundreds of feet away, but no earthquakes were generated).