Quick! Nematodes got feet!

Just had to share this...

MiddleMan

Retro Monday... Purple Prose and Violet Rays

This is a late post in honor of the Lord of Tech, Nikola Tesla, who's birthday was only a few weeks ago.

That's him at left behind a very reserved-seeming Samuel Clemens. (More on this gentleman another time.)

I know the usual thing to do in this situation is to make fun of the silly tech pawned of as his "secret discoveries", but I want to make something clear...

Without him we might not have:

AC power transmission.

Efficient electric motors.

And he invented the radio. (Sorry, Marconi.)

So when people go on about his manias, "death rays", ioncraft, or his beliefs in eugenics; it just serves to dilute all the wonders this man brought to us.

But, even I have to wonder what people were thinking about when portable tesla coils were used in the creation of Voilet Rays. More here.

Now aside from this old set I found on Ebay, I bet you're thinking no one still looks to buy these things for anything other than a curiousity, right?

Wrong. (Why do I do this to myself? I know where this is going...)

http://www.electroherbalism.com/Bioelectronics/Tesla/VioletRay.htm

http://www.beautifulonraw.com/Holistic_Device_Violet_Ray.html

Of course Cacye had to be involved in this: http://www.cayce.com/vray.htm

Sigh...

It could be worse, they could be selling useless orgone gener...

http://www.orgoneenergy.org/orgone-energy-generators

THAT IS IT! I'm building a rocket to Mars! See you all later!

Goodbye and goodnight,

MiddleMan

I should be insulted...

I mean, I'm half-Italian myself. But this is too funny:

Who doesn't love a smoking super-hero?

Later,

MiddleMan