Tesla Sesquicentennial

It is the Tesla Sesquicentennial!

Happy Birthday!

No, not this Tesla, that Tesla

As his SI unit celebrates he was clearly a very intense guy.
Though I don't know that he was really 10,000 Gauss!

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I celebrated by driving to Milan, Ohio and doing donuts on the lawn of Thomas Edison's birth-home.
When I came back, I calculated the resonant frequency of my apartment and shook it to the ground.