AC/DC

Swiss Army, the Ringling Brothers logo, the AC/DC sign (my favorite), and countless more. So, who is this man? His name is David Huerta, and he has been designing for over 40 years (he started around age 25). His work is seen every single day, yet, his name is not normally attached to it. His designs are elegant and simple, but edgy and fresh at the same time. To appear on dozen of products, they must be. Gerard Huerta designed both the basis of the AC/DC logo and this final one, which is now…

Many other people have taken advantage of Tesla. Thomas Edison was the most known and most hated rival of Tesla. Tesla actually worked for Thomas Edison in his early career. Edison granted a million dollars to fix the problems he was having with the DC generators and motors. When Tesla finished fixing the machines and he asked for the money promised, Edison said, “Tesla you don't understand our American humor.” Edison correlated his inventions with how much money it would make so he was more…

“In 1887, Tesla filed for seven U.S. patents describing a complete AC system based on his induction motor and including generators, transformers, transmission lines and lighting.” After all the hard work Tesla has done to finish his inventions he still is not done. Nikola Tesla continued his research work on electricity…

told false stories of deaths caused by the use of electricity in private homes. Rockefeller’s pieces began making the public weary of the use of electrical lighting. To try and make the public distrust AC electricity, Edison invented the electric chair for New York State Penitentiary and used Tesla’s AC generators. This backfired and caused the public to associate Edison with the death of the inmate and hurt Morgan’s business. To try to run Morgan out of business, Tesla and his partner…

Nikola Tesla was an interesting scientist and ahead of his time. Nikola Tesla lived to be 86 years old. He was born on July 9 or 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Australia-Hungary. Tesla died of coronary thrombosis which is a blood clot in the flow of blood to the heart. Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943. He died at the age of 86 in New York City. He didn’t have any kids or a wife. Nikola Tesla’s inventions were he discovered the electric alternating current that is still used today. In 1891 Tesla…

Full-wave rectifier converts whole of AC cycle into pulsating DC while half-wave rectifier converts only one-half of AC cycle into pulsating DC. Moreover, the half-wave rectifier is unidirectional so, it only allows the conduction in one direction which means either it only can convert positive half or negative half into DC voltage while the full-wave is bi-directional so, it can convert positive half and negative half of the cycle into DC voltage. Two networks that perform full-wave…

Tesla might have been owed. While times were good the money that Tesla might have earned didn’t seem to matter. In these times Tesla invented the Tesla coil (1891), his AC motor design was being used to build a hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls which powered all of Buffalo, New York. He also continued his research into AC motors, as well as researching x-ray and radio. But eventually, times began to turn sour. By 1895 Westinghouse no longer needed him so Tesla lost his income as a…

the powerful alternating current (AC) model that significantly became the industry electric standard. AC is widely considered one of the many Tesla’s inventions. It is said that Tesla became an engineer with no single training at all, not exposed in the said field, but did it all himself, and realized the greatest- amazing results by virtue of his applications and industry use. He challenged one of his counterparts, Thomas Edison who also invented direct current (DC) power system (Jatras, 2003).…

genres/subgenres were influenced by hard rock and its characteristics. Though, today I believe hard rock has gone downhill. The bands today aren’t nearly as good as the ones in the 70’s and 80’s. Also, Axl Rose is the new frontman (lead singer) of AC/DC, what kind of monstrosity is this? What started out as a great genre is now crashing in a downward spiral. Other subgenres are taking over, like alternative rock, and our culture listens to pop. But, there is a whole subculture that is still…

an inductor, a switch and a set of paddles, acting as electrodes. A diagram of this circuit can be seen below. The switch (A & B) determines whether the defibrillator is charging or discharging. When ‘A’ is closed, the capacitor is connected to the DC power supply, allowing the current to travel through the first loop, charging the capacitor. This continues until the capacitor voltage is equal to the power supply voltage. During discharge, when the patient is undergoing defibrillation, closing…