Category Archives: Tesla valve

Burning Propane Beautifully Illustrates How a Tesla Valve Works

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

When you hear the name “Tesla”, chances are good that thoughts turn instantly to the company that’s trying to reinvent the motor vehicle and every industry that makes it possible. While we applaud the effort, it’s a shame that they chose to appropriate the surname of a Serbian polymath as …read more

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Making Microfluidics Simpler With Shrinky Dinks

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Fernando Gomes

It’s as if the go-to analogy these days for anything technical is, “It’s like a series of tubes.” Explanations thus based work better for some things than others, and even when the comparison is apt from a physics standpoint it often breaks down in the details. With microfluidics, the analogy …read more

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