Hi, my name is Tom, I am 54 years old, started fooling around with high voltage at an early age with an old model T Ford spark coil housed in a wooden box, then a Jacob's ladder made from an oil burner transformer. I built my first Tesla coil at age 14, it fogged out the TV reception for the entire neighborhood. I exploded the glass and tin foil capacitor on my 15th birthday, the spark gap was too wide.
A job at Honeywell testing bombs got me enough money to get through Mechanical Engineering school at The University of Minnesota. I graduated in 1968, with the Viet Nam War going full blast, spent six months in the U S Army Reserves, then continued on to grad school at Stanford and got an MS degree in ME and pre-med. Spent the next fourteen years going through med school, general surgery training, playing with nerve gas in a physiology lab, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellowship.
I have been working, in Minneapolis as a Plastic surgeon since 1984, but never forgetting my engineering background, I invented and patented a laser assisted liposuction device.
This IEC stuff is great! I can't wait for one of you guys to make the big fusion break through, fusion is the only way we are going to solve the energy problems of the future.
Created on Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:04 PM EDT by Thomas D Dressel Last Modified on Saturday, March 17, 2001 10:03 AM EDT by Thomas D Dressel