I often find information in the strangest places. Google is a great place to start and I am not talking about searching for information. The Google picture to the left is a fine example. The Google team choose things (Christmas, Easter, famous people, special events) and change the word 'Google' to represent what they have chosen. Today's (Friday 10th July 09 - in America it's still Thursday 9th July 2009) the team has chosen Nikola Tesla, a famous inventor in the field of electrical power. He was born at midnight on the 9th of July 1856 and died 7th January 1943.
Tesla said about his work, "Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.”
I wish my brain would work this way. keep your eyes open for other dates, people and events that Google think are worth knowing about.
Hi Mel,
ReplyDeleteI cracked up laughing when I read this post. After 20 years of teaching you would think that my brain would be full of amazing innovative ideas like Nikola Testa. But no, multi tasking,as you do- if you are female, while waiting for your site to load I was thinking about the best way to get flour into a balloon to make a squishy sensory toy for one of my students.
I'm so glad that we can't read each other's minds. People who read mine would say, 'Did she seriously spend 6 years at Uni?'
I will now, forever more, check out the 'Google doodle' before I search for anything!