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stlsaxman

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11. that thing about transmitting electricty through the air was GENIOUS...

Reply to True Earthling (Original post)

Mon May 21, 2012, 05:35 PM

May 2012

and it worked great-

until you touched a water pipe or anything grounded (like a toilet) and died.

"That's a GREAT IDEA, Nikola- glad I thought of it!" Thomas A Edison.

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that thing about transmitting electricty through the air was GENIOUS... stlsaxman May 2012 #11