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In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold.Â
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Nikola Tesla stunned audiences when he wirelessly lit up glass tubes filled with gas. He called it cold light.Â
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A hundred years before the world went "wireless," Nikola Tesla invented his Tesla coil, and wirelessly lit up his inventions.
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At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 160,000 light bulbs lit up the evening sky over Chicago.
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Don Hume wasn't a physically imposing athlete, but he had a gift for rowing that helped lead the University of Washington rowing team to Olympic victory in 1936. Â
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The boys from Washington had to win one more time to become the first Washington crew to represent the United States in the Olympics.Â
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The 1936 Olympic Opening Ceremony was held on August 1 at the Reichssportsfeld in Berlin.
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The national rowing championship was June 22nd, and Washington’s strategy was to exercise patience in the four mile race.Â
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On July 15, 1936 more than 300 members of the U.S. Olympic team boarded the SS Manhattan to travel to the Olympic Games in Berlin.Â
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U.S. Air Force aviation doctor John Paul Stapp tested the limits of human physiology both on the ground and in near-space.
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Using spare parts and ingenuity, a tiny team assembled a capsule they hoped would carry a man to heights over 100,000 feet above the Earth's surface.
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Beginning in 1783, balloonists risked their lives trying to view the Earth from a brand new vantage point.
