I totally missed it! I missed posting about Thursday, the 9th. Know what it was? National Static Electricity Day! No kidding! Who knew, not me! But my desk calendar says so.
Following photos are from the web.
Do you get static shocks much? Do they make you jump or do you not really care? The following is a sweet story about Tesla's Cat and static.
TESLA'S CAT
Nikola Tesla's favorite childhood companion was the family's black cat, Macak.
Macak followed young Nikola everywhere, and they spent many happy hours rolling
on the grass.
It was Macak the cat who introduced Tesla to electricity on a dry winter
evening. "As I stroked Macak's back," he recalled, "I saw a
miracle that made me speechless with amazement. Macak's back was a sheet of
light and my hand produced a shower of sparks loud enough to be heard all over
the house." He asked his father what caused the sparks. His father answered,
"Well, this is nothing but electricity, the same thing you see through the
trees in a storm." His father's answer, equating the sparks with
lightning, fascinated the young boy. As Tesla continued to stroke Macak, he
began to wonder, "Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?
It can only be God," he concluded.
— W. Bernard
Carlson
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