http://davidcustiskimball.disqus.com/enSun, 12 Jul 2009 11:49:56 -0000http://davidcustiskimball.com/post/139378445#comment-12542468<p>Nelster, you better check on that. Lightning is DC not AC.</p>MillportSun, 12 Jul 2009 11:49:56 -0000http://davidcustiskimball.com/post/139378445#comment-12514577<p>During his early work in crossing a chicken with a pig (through using a kite with which he would catch lightening and force that lightening into a leyden jar) and electrically charging the animals to create the first hybred turkey, it was Ben Franklin who actually discovered AC electricity as a parellel invention. Tesla is often credited, but it was Ben with the money shot.</p>jimmynelsterSat, 11 Jul 2009 17:56:04 -0000http://davidcustiskimball.com/post/139378445#comment-12510409<p>Tesla also understood air foils. I believe he was the first to understand and establish that at high velocties the air does not make contact with the wing.<br>A friend of mine took this theory and invented a centrifugal pump that can pump live fish and they are still alive after discharge from the pump. This just an example but the theory worked.</p>MillportSat, 11 Jul 2009 14:16:34 -0000