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There are three influential figures that inspired me to illustrate this first volume of the Electromotive Force Review; Nikola Tesla, Ernst Willem van den Bergh, and David Macaulay.
The legendary engineer, Nikola Tesla and his prolific electromotive works ignited the electrical industrial revolution and the groundwork for many positive years to come.
Without the diligent research, archiving, experimentation, and online sharing by Ernst Willem van den Bergh, I would have not arrived at Nikola Tesla as my prime focus for myself. Ernst made clear of the ever growing importance within Tesla’s body of work and the great value of avoiding misleading interpretations that regularly surround it.
My patience and eye for sharing with others the ability to intuitively see the unseeable electrical forces of nature so strange and so wonderful, was planted in my childhood mind long ago from a book “The Way Things Work” a 1988 illustrated children's book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is an entertaining introduction to everyday mechanisms, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. This book catalyzed my personal curiosity and illustrative eye for the natural world and the technology we have built upon it. I discovered that David Macaulay received his bachelor’s degree at the very same school that I was attending at the time for my studies in Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. I knew that I was in the right place to share my thoughts.
This first volume is dedicated to all those who inspired and encouraged me throughout life. With this publication, I hope to inspire, grow and perhaps follow similar minds for the positive momentum of human creativity. The Electromotive Force Review can be a home for those who want the same. I believe this is what the next generation of thinkers deserve.
-Kyle Longean Dell’Aquila
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