"As soon as [the Wardenclyffe plant is] completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. . . ." — Nikola Tesla, 1893
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Pretty nifty I'd say...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U
If this link doesn't work (I'm technologically challenged...), then you can just search "Singing Tesla Coil" on youtube.
This book is very odd and i do not get it....please help?
You are not the only one.
Could you be more specific than "please help"? What, in particular are you struggling with?
i don't understand what he is saying. The concepts are so odd and i feel like on each page their is something that has no correlation to the first
Try thinking of it more poetically and less systematically. It isn't a constructed argument so much as a series of impressions. He is making a lot of points about a lot of subjects, and is trying in some fashion to disorient you. Part of it is intentional. If you have a question about a particular passage, maybe that will help me explain it to you.
I see there is a quiz on the syllabus for tomorrow, Is that going to be on this book or is that going to be on the New York Times, or neither?
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