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 10:00 am-7:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
OFFICIAL OPENING OF TESLA EXHIBITION
Saturday, November 18, 2006
12:00 pm
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.
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EXHIBITION:
The exhibition will present the chronological events in Tesla’s life and work, as follows:
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.
