Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Electric Cat


Nikola Tesla, the electrical genius responsible for inventing our AC power distribution system, the induction motor, remote control, the radio, and fluorescent lighting was inspired as a boy to study electricity after receiving a strong static discharge while petting his pet cat.  He wondered, at the time, if all of nature was like a big cat that might be stroked to produce energy. Before getting zapped by his cat, Tesla wanted to be a poet.
--Mitchell Hegman
 

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