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Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 62 Comments: 0 Stephin Merritt Covers Stephin Merritt Covers "Electric Love" Before its third season's finale, we had the Bob's Burgers writing staff rank the series' best songs. No fan was surprised with the top choice: "Electric Love" from the season-three episode "Topsy." It tells the story of Thomas Edison's love for his elephant Topsy, which eventually lead to Topsy being electrocuted. The song is super great. Not just for a cartoon, but for music in general, what with its multipart harmony and soaring vocals from Megan Mullally and Kevin Kline. It also features the best lyric ever: "They'll say, 'Aww Topsy' at my autopsy." This makes it perfect for the second installment in the "Bob's Buskers" series, in which great artists cover one of the show's songs and then the show's animators animate it. We previously featured St. Vincent covering "Bad Girls Theme," and now we have the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, with the help of Kiki and Herb's Kenny Mellman as Thomas Edison (and cameos from the whole Belcher family). You'll throw popcorn in the air in celebration of this beautiful electric love. User: SilenTom Jun 6, 2013 2:53 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 130 Comments: 0 Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison: Epic Rap Battles of History Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison: Epic Rap Battles of History Epic Rap Battles of History, Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison Mar 13, 2013 4:07 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 68 Comments: 0 Today in History for Monday, February 11Th Today in History for Monday, February 11Th Highlights of this day in history: South Africa frees Nelson Mandela; Allied leaders in the last months of World War II sign the Yalta accords; Ayatollah Khomeini's followers seize power in Iran; inventor Thomas Edison born. (Feb. 11) Feb 10, 2013 10:00 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 34 Comments: 0 Today in History for December 31St Today in History for December 31St Thomas Edison demonstrates light bulb; The United States winds down the Marshall Plan; Actor Anthony Hopkins, composer Jule Styne and musician Donna Summer are born. (Dec. 31) Dec 30, 2012 11:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 77 Comments: 0 Today in History for November 21St Today in History for November 21St Highlights of this day in history: Thomas Edison says he's invented the phonograph; Gap revealed on Nixon White House tape; Final victim dies in America's anthrax scare; Jonathan Pollard arrested; 'Anything Goes' opens on Broadway. (Nov. 21) Nov 20, 2012 11:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 124 Comments: 0 Today in History for October 21St Today in History for October 21St Highlights of this day in history: Thomas Edison perfects workable electric light; Anthrax scare claims first of two U.S. postal workers in Washington, DC; Britain wins Battle of Trafalgar; Actress and author Carrie Fisher born. (Oct. 21) Oct 21, 2012 7:01 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 192 Comments: 0 Today in History for October 18Th Today in History for October 18Th Highlights of this day in history: Inventor Thomas Edison dies; Three scientists share Nobel prize for DNA work; Anthrax scare hits CBS in New York; Two U.S. athletes suspended for Mexico City Olympics protest; Rock star Chuck Berry born. (Oct. 18) Oct 17, 2012 10:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Tech Geeks Rating: Good Hits: 319 Comments: 0 The Dickson Experimental Sound Film The Dickson Experimental Sound Film This short film was a test for Edison's "Kinetophone" project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895. Unfortunately, this experiment failed because they didn't understand synchronization of sound and film. The large cone on the left hand side of the frame is the "microphone" for the wax cylinder recorder (off-camera). The Library of Congress had the film. The wax cylinder soundtrack, however, was believed lost for many years. Tantalizingly, a broken cylinder labeled "Violin by WKL Dickson with Kineto" was catalogued in the 1964 inventory at the Edison National Historic Site. In 1998, Patrick Loughney, curator of Film and Television at the Library of Congress, retrieved the cylinder and had it repaired and re-recorded at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound, Lincoln Center, New York. Since the Library did not possess the necessary synchronizing technology, Loughney - at the suggestion of producer Rick Schmidlin - sent multi-Oscar winner Walter Murch a videotape of the 17 seconds of film and an audiocassette of 3 minutes and 20 seconds of sound with a request to marry the two. By digitizing the media and using digital editing software, Murch was able to synchronize them and complete the failed experiment 105 years later. This 35mm film was generously made available to the Internet Archive by Walter Murch and Sean Cullen. Dec 18, 2011 4:08 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 2245 Comments: 3 The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors 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, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances. Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics, but soon he became fascinated with electricity. He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881. It was there, as Tesla was walking with a friend through the city park that the elusive solution to the rotating magnetic field flashed through his mind. With a stick, he drew a diagram in the sand explaining to his friend the principle of the induction motor. Before going to America, Tesla joined Continental Edison Company in Paris where he designed dynamos. While in Strassbourg in 1883, he privately built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it successfully. Unable to interest anyone in Europe in promoting this radical device, Tesla accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New York. His childhood dream was to come to America to harness the power of Niagara Falls. Young Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 with an introduction letter from Charles Batchelor to Thomas Edison: “I know two great men,” wrote Batchelor, “one is you and the other is this young man.” Tesla spent the next 59 years of his productive life living in New York. Tesla set about improving Edison’s line of dynamos while working in Edison’s lab in New Jersey. It was here that his divergence of opinion with Edison over direct current versus alternating current began. This disagreement climaxed in the war of the currents as Edison fought a losing battle to protect his investment in direct current equipment and facilities. User: spam_vigilante Dec 12, 2011 9:51 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 1544 Comments: 0 Apple's Think Different Ad, 1997 Apple's Think Different Ad, 1997 The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. Dec 4, 2011 11:22 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 281 Comments: 0 Today in History for November 21St Today in History for November 21St Highlights of this day in history: Thomas Edison says he's invented the phonograph; Gap revealed on Nixon White House tape; Final victim dies in America's anthrax scare; Jonathan Pollard arrested; 'Anything Goes' opens on Broadway. (Nov. 21) Nov 21, 2011 12:04 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 310 Comments: 0 Today in History for October 21St Today in History for October 21St Highlights of this day in history: Thomas Edison perfects workable electric light; Anthrax scare claims first of two U.S. postal workers in Washington, DC; Britain wins Battle of Trafalgar; Actress and author Carrie Fisher born. (Oct. 21) Oct 20, 2011 11:00 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 380 Comments: 0 Today in History for October 18Th Today in History for October 18Th Highlights of this day in history: Inventor Thomas Edison dies; Three scientists share Nobel prize for DNA work; Anthrax scare hits CBS in New York; Two U.S. athletes suspended for Mexico City Olympics protest; Rock star Chuck Berry born. (Oct. 18) Oct 17, 2011 10:01 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 717 Comments: 1 The History of Nikola Tesla: A Short Story The History of Nikola Tesla: A Short Story Today is the 154th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth. In celebration of this event, I decided to make a short video about the history of Nikola Tesla. User: RabidMadness Jul 11, 2010 7:30 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 3621 Comments: 13 Life = Risk: Celebrity Failures Life = Risk: Celebrity Failures Life equals risk. User: RabidMadness Apr 12, 2010 8:49 AM
 
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