Musical Recordings from the Realm of the Dead

Four separate individuals at the dawn of wireless technology unknowingly become accidental collaborators of a musical composition that is pieced together through radio waves. Let’s face it, any video which features Elisha Gray, Ralph Dunstan, Guglielmo Marconi and, particularly, Nikola Tesla, is going to find its way on to Kuriositas. Directed and animated by Troy Morgan this is haunting, atmospheric and like its subject, unique.

Nikola Tesla: Inventions In Three-Dimensions

As collaborations go, this is a good one. Students from multiple departments of the Art Institute of Philadelphia joined forces with the Tesla Science Foundation to come up with this pretty impressive animation.

The aim of the animation was to showcase historical Tesla inventions which were on display at the 2nd Annual Tesla Conference which was held last July. As well as this, the students have developed ideas about what these inventions may look like in the future.

To cap it all, if anyone asks me what a Tesla Coil is down the pub again, I can tell them. This invention was at the forefront of Tesla’s vision for achieving worldwide wireless distribution of electricity and is something which is quite complicated to explain. Imagine my delight when I discovered that there is an extremely neat animated explanation of the science behind the Tesla Coil in this piece. I’m just going down the pub to explain it – before I forget. Later!

The History of Nikola Tesla

Wikipedia has this to say about Nikola Tesla. "Nikola Tesla (Serbian: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, which helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution."

Well, yes - and so much more besides. If you would rather not plough through the reams and reams of information about Tesla on the internet, then why not take Animated Tesla 101. This extremely neat animated short film was put together in under 36 hours for the 154th anniversary of his birth by Jeremiah Warren. Thank you ever so much, Mr Warren!