NIKOLA TESLA
1856 - 1943
FORGOTTEN AMERICAN SCIENTIST
BUST OF TESLA--
(sculptor: Ronald Farrington Sharp)
My 3rd and 4th Grade class project resulting in duplicates of our $6,000 bronze bust (mounted on granite) being donated to major universities.
Page 4 shows photographs of our bust installations:
1. Harvard (Physics Dept.)
2. Yale (EE Dept.)
3. Princeton (EE Dept.)
4. MIT (EE Dept.)
5. Cal Tech (Physics Dept.)
6. U. Michigan (EE Dept.)
7. U. Wisconsin (Physics Dept.)
8. U. Maryland (Physics Dept.)
9. U. Illinois (EE. Dept.)
10. Purdue U. (EE. Dept.)
11. U. Pennsylvania (Physics Dept.)
12. Georgia Tech (EE Dept.)
13. Cornell U. (Physics Dept.)
14. MIchigan State U. (Physics Dept.)
15. Johns Hopkins U. (Physics Dept.)
16. Penn State U. (Physics Dept.)
17. Duke U. (EE Dept.)
18. Carnegie Mellon U. (EE Robotics Dept.)
19. ?????? U. (?????? Dept.)
3rd and 4th Graders undertook this project
because Tesla is America's
FORGOTTEN SCIENTIST OF EPOCH DIMENSIONS
and merely
A FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY AT THE SMITHSONIAN
(But that's OK, who needs the Smithsonian?)
TESLA:
OMITTED IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS
OMITTED IN TECHNICAL JOURNALS
UNKNOWN EVEN TO SOME ENGINEERS
HIS WORK UNKNOWN OR UNDER APPRECIATED
(This does not speak well for our media.)
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THIS IS OUR SCHOOL
Dicken Elementary School
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
I am John W. Wagner, teacher...and I have a story to tell you about my successive classes of third and fourth grade students whose efforts are focused on preserving Tesla's memory in history.
Along the way, my students somehow learn to write...and enjoy their newly acquired skill. Is this not one of the grand purposes of school?
Our class hero is Nikola Tesla because he is the underdog of electrical history, yet his scientific discoveries brought us the prosperity we enjoy today.
I encourage you to continue reading our incredible story of how my students are making their mark on history for Nikola Tesla. Perhaps you will even want to give us a helping hand in some small way. We can certainly use all the help we can get.
I provide only five links to outside web pages: (1). Cornell University; (2). University of Maryland; (3). University of Illinois; (4). Yale University; (5). Johns Hopkins University. (Yale's page is a more detailed account of Tesla's life and a short synopsis of our efforts.)
Click HERE to go to the Cornell University site.
Click HERE to go to the University of Maryland site.
Click HERE to go to the University of Illinois site.
Click HERE to go to the Yale University site.
Click HERE to go to the Johns Hopkins University site.
Please continue below as indicated.
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