chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) (03/06/85)
In article <2436@nsc.UUCP> chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) writes: >What Tesla did was made what is known as St. Elmo's fire. >The fireball effect can be created in nature as well. St. Elmo's fire >is often seen during very high wind storms in connection with lightning. I have been told by some folks that "St. Elmo's fire" noted above should have read "Ball lightning". Oh well I made a mistake and now you will have to read a zillion flames on the mistake, sorry about that. chongo <*sigh*> /\../\ -- If Tesla had been born in the early 60's, he might have been the builder of desk top Cray-VI like computers running a super 4.9BSD like operating system. Edison on the other hand, would have searched by trial and error for the ultimate 4004 based j-random spread sheet micro while claiming that the power of the Tesla machine could kill a programming project. Worse yet, historians might later credit Edison with forming the personal computer industry.