Travelling Tesla exhibit, Nov 11-16 Vancouver BC

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Nikola Tesla's Wonderful World of Electricity
Exhibition from the
Nikola Tesla Belgrade Museum
November 16  30, 2006

BC Hydro Lobby
333 Dunsmuir Street
Vancouver, BC, V6B 5R3

Monday-Friday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday 12:00 pm-5:00 pm

OFFICIAL OPENING OF TESLA EXHIBITION
Saturday, November 18, 2006,  12:00 pm


MORE INFO:

A traveling exhibition from the Nikola Tesla Museum, is shown in only 4
cities in the world: Perth, Vienna, Paris and Vancouver. The Exhibition,
under the technical sponsorship of IEEE Vancouver Section, will arrive to
Vancouver on November 14th and will be set up in the Foyer of the BC Hydro
Head Office which has been generously donated by BC Hydro.

To learn more about how you can Donate to enable this and other related
events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Tesla's birth,
click HERE  http://www.teslavancouver2006.com/Links.html

EXHIBITION:

The exhibition will present the chronological events in Tesla
   1. Tesla's heritage and family (Gospic, Karlovac, Graz, Prague);
   2. Employment in Europe (Budapest, Paris, Strasburg)
   3. Early period of his work in USA
   4. Scientific contribution in various fields (power engineering,
      communications, circuits, control systems, mechanical engineering)
   5. The most important Awards and Recognitions

The exhibition includes 55 panels 1m x 2m of reproduced photographs from
different segments of Tesla's life and work, four models of facilities and
plants, five working models of his inventions and three computer 3D
presentations of inventions.

The contents of models and 3D animations are as follows:

Facilities and Plant Models:

   1. Niagara Hydro Power Plant
   2. Colorado Springs Laboratory
   3. Long Island Laboratory
   4. Airplane with vertical take-off

Working Models (interactive):

   1. Induction motor with rotating egg
   2. Induction motor with disc rotor
   3. Tesla's Transformer
   4. Tesla's Pump
   5. Principle of operation of turbine and pump

3D computer animations:

   1. Tesla's Pump
   2. Tesla's Fan
   3. Airplane with vertical take-off

The official opening of the Traveling Exhibition is planned on November
18, 2006. The closing of the exhibition will be on November 30, 2006.


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