Nikola Tesla - The man who invented the modern world
Here's a task for you to try:
Go check your encyclopedia to find the answers to the following questions: (answers are given in parentheses)
1) Who invented the radio? (Marconi)
2) Who discovered X-rays? (Roentgen)
3) Who invented the vacuum tube amplifier? (de Forest)
In fact, while you're at it, check to see who discovered the fluorescent bulb, neon lights, speedometer, the automobile ignition system, and the basics behind radar, electron microscope, and the microwave oven.
Chances are that you will see little mention of a guy named Nikola Tesla, the most famous scientist in the world at the turn of the century.
In fact, few people today have ever heard of the guy. Good old Tommy Edison made sure of that.
After all, Tesla was considered an eccentric who talked of death rays that could destroy 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles, claimed to be able split the Earth in two, believed that both voice and image could be transmitted through the air (in the late 1800's), and essentially told Edison to take his DC electrical system and stick it you know where.
In other words, anyone that has even heard of Tesla probably considers him to be a first class wacko.
But, the times are a changin'.
The problem is that Tesla probably could do all these things that he claimed were possible. In fact, Tesla invented every single one of the items listed above (but gets no credit) and much more. Look around you and chances are Tesla is somehow responsible for most of the things that make modern life so modern.
No doubt about it, Nikola Tesla is the greatest mind since da Vinci.
So who is this genius?
Little Nicky Tesla was born in Smijlan, Croatia way back in 1856. He had an extraordinary memory and spoke six languages. He spent four years at the Polytechnic Institute at Gratz studying math, physics, and mechanics.
What made Tesla great, however, was his amazing understanding of electricity. Remember that this was a time when electricity was still in its infancy. The lightbulb hadn't even been invented yet.
When Tesla first came to the United States in 1884, he worked for Thomas Edison. Edison had just patented the lightbulb, so he needed a system to distribute electricity.
Edison had all sorts of problems with his DC system of electricity. He promised Tesla big bucks in bonuses if he could get the bugs out of the system. Tesla ended up saving Edison over $100,000 (millions of $$$ by today's standards), but Edison refused to live up to his end of the bargain.
Tesla quit and Edison spent the rest of his life trying to squash Tesla's genius (and the main reason Tesla is unknown today).
Tesla devised a better system for electrical transmission - the AC (alternating current) system that we use in our homes today. AC offered great advantages over the DC system. By using Tesla's newly developed transformers, AC voltages could be stepped up and transmitted over long distances through thin wires. DC could not (requiring a large power plant every square mile while transmitting through very thick cables).
Of course, a system of transmission would be incomplete without devices to run on them. So, he invented the motors that are used in every appliance in your house. This was no simple achievement - scientists of the late 1800's were convinced that no motor could be devised for an alternating current system, making the use of AC a waste of time. After all, if the current reverses direction 60 times a second, the motor will rock back and forth and never get anywhere. Tesla solved this problem easily and proved everyone wrong.
He was using fluorescent bulbs in his lab some forty years before industry "invented" them. At World's Fairs and similar exhibitions, he took glass tubes and molded them into the shapes of famous scientists' names - the first neon signs that we see all around us today. I almost forgot - Tesla designed the world's first hydroelectric plant, located in Niagara Falls. He also patented the first speedometer for cars.
Word began to spread about his AC system and it eventually reached the ears of one George Westinghouse.
Tesla signed a contract with Westinghouse under which he would receive $2.50 for each kilowatt of AC electricity sold.
Suddenly, Tesla had the cash to start conducting all the experiments he ever dreamed of.
But Edison had too much money invested in his DC system, so Tommy did his best to discredit Tesla around every turn. Edison constantly tried to show that AC electricity was far more dangerous than his DC power.
Tesla counteracted by staging his own marketing campaign. At the 1893 World Exposition in Chicago (attended by 21 million people), he demonstrated how safe AC electricity was by passing high frequency AC power through his body to power light bulbs. He then was able to shoot large lightning bolts from his Tesla coils to the crowd without harm. Nice trick!
When the royalties owed to Tesla started to exceed $1 million, Westinghouse ran into financial trouble. Tesla realized that if his contract remained in effect, Westinghouse would be out of business and he had no desire to deal with the creditors. His dream was to have cheap AC electric available to all people. Tesla took his contract and ripped it up! Instead of becoming the world's first billionaire, he was paid $216,600 outright for his patents.
In 1898, he demonstrated to the world the first remote controlled model boat at Madison Square Garden. So you can thank Tesla for the invention of those remote controlled planes, cars, and boats (and televisions!), also.
Tesla had a dream of providing free energy to the world. In 1900, backed by $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan, Tesla began construction of his so called "Wireless Broadcasting System" tower on Long Island, New York. This broadcasting tower was intended to link the world's telephone and telegraph services, as well as transmit pictures, stock reports, and weather information worldwide. Unfortunately, Morgan cut funding when he realized that it meant FREE energy for the world.
Many stories claim that the U. S. government destroyed the tower during World War One for fear that the German u-boat spies would use the tower as a landmark to navigate by. In reality, Tesla ran into financial trouble after Morgan cut funding for the project and the tower was sold for scrap to pay off creditors.
The world thought he was nuts - after all, transmission of voice, picture, and electricity was unheard of at this time.
What they didn't know was that Tesla had already demonstrated the principles behind radio nearly ten years before Marconi's supposed invention. In fact, in 1943 (the year Tesla died), the Supreme Court ruled that Marconi's patents were invalid due to Tesla's previous descriptions. Still, most references do not credit Tesla with the invention of radio. (Sidenote: Marconi's radio did not transmit voices - it transmitted a signal - something Tesla had demonstrated years before.)
At this point, the press started to exaggerate Tesla's claims.
Tesla reported that he had received radio signals from Mars and Venus. Today we know that he was actually receiving the signals from distant stars, but too little was known about the universe at that time. Instead, the press had a field day with his "outrageous" claims.
In his Manhattan lab, Tesla made the earth into an electric tuning fork. He managed to get a steam-driven oscillator to vibrate at the same frequency as the ground beneath him (like Ella Fitzgerald breaking the glass with her voice in those old Memorex commercials).
The result? An earthquake on all the surrounding city blocks. The buildings trembled, the windows broke, and the plaster fell off the walls.
Tesla contended that, in theory, the same principle could be used to destroy the Empire State Building or even possibly split the Earth in two. Tesla had accurately determined the resonant frequencies of the Earth almost 60 years before science could confirm his results.
Don't think he didn't attempt something like splitting the Earth open (well, sort of).
In his Colorado Springs lab in 1899, he sent waves of energy all the way through the Earth, causing them to bounce back to the source (providing the theory for today's accurate earthquake seismic stations). When the waves came back, he added more electricity to it.
The result? The largest man-made lightning bolt ever recorded - 130 feet! - a world's record still unbroken!
The accompanying thunder was heard 22 miles away. The entire meadow surrounding his lab had a strange blue glow, similar to that of St. Elmo's Fire.
But, this was only a warm-up for his real experiment! Unfortunately, he blew out the local power plant's equipment and he was never able to repeat the experiment.
At the beginning of World War I, the government desperately searched for a way to detect German submarines. The government put Thomas Edison in charge of the search for a good method. Tesla proposed the use of energy waves - what we know today as radar - to detect these ships. Edison rejected Tesla's idea as ludicrous and the world had to wait another 25 years until it was invented.
His reward for a lifetime of creativity? The prized (to everyone but Tesla) Edison Medal! A real slap in the face after all the verbal abuse Tesla took from Edison.
The stories go on and on.
Industry's attempt (obviously very successful) to purge him from the scientific literature had driven him into exile for nearly twenty years. Lacking capital, he was forced to place his untested theories into countless notebooks.
The man who invented the modern world died nearly penniless at age 86 on January 7, 1943. More than two thousand people attended his funeral.
In his lifetime, Tesla received over 800 different patents. He probably would have exceeded Edison's record number if he wasn't always broke - he could afford very few patent applications during the last thirty years of his life.
Unlike Edison, Tesla was an original thinker whose ideas typically had no precedent in science. Unfortunately, the world does not financially reward people of Tesla's originality. We only award those that take these concepts and turn them into a refined, useful product.
Scientists today continue to scour through his notes. Many of his far flung theories are just now being proven by our top scientists. For example, the Tesla bladeless disk turbine engine that he designed, when coupled with modern materials, is proving to be among the most efficient motors ever designed. His 1901 patented experiments with cryogenic liquids and electricity provide the foundation for modern superconductors. He talked about experiments that suggested particles with fractional charges of an electron - something that scientists in 1977 finally discovered - quarks!
Wow!
Maybe history will finally recognize a true genius when it sees one.
Edison was a patent clerk and a thief. Tesla demonstrated the high voltage ac current we use today and this was leapt on by the money lenders, Winston Churchill and others. Tesla however later made many good devices that ran on 12v dc but this was largely ignored as the Central Electricity Board (in Britain at any rate) forced everyone to have the high voltage supply pumped into everyone's home. Tesla's free transmission of electricity using the natural electro-magnetic waves that pulse through the earth, was funded by J.P. Morgan who later withdrew funding and the amazing mushroom structure was never finished.
There's a torrent somewhere with all tesla's patents in pdf format.
Edison was a patent clerk and a thief. Tesla demonstrated the high voltage ac current we use today and this was leapt on by the money lenders, Winston Churchill and others. Tesla however later made many good devices that ran on 12v dc but this was largely ignored as the Central Electricity Board (in Britain at any rate) forced everyone to have the high voltage supply pumped into everyone's home. Tesla's free transmission of electricity using the natural electro-magnetic waves that pulse through the earth, was funded by J.P. Morgan who later withdrew funding and the amazing mushroom structure was never finished.
There's a torrent somewhere with all tesla's patents in pdf format.
Edison was a patent clerk ?
I thought he started as a telegraph boy or something ...
Isn't interesting to note that IBM didn't appear to care that Bill stole from them? Could it just be a covert wise business practice among cohorts? If IBM made it's own OS for it's own computers; the computers would come with the OS, and the overall package would be cheaper (to stay competitive). We know that when components are broken up they can sell for more for the sum of the parts.
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Isn't interesting to note that IBM didn't appear to care that Bill stole from them? Could it just be a covert wise business practice among cohorts? If IBM made it's own OS for it's own computers; the computers would come with the OS, and the overall package would be cheaper (to stay competitive). We know that when components are broken up they can sell for more for the sum of the parts.
It's possible that IBM was completely myopic in their deal with Gates or it was actually
done intentionally ... strange that Buffet would give him billions of dollars to go to
charity ... even stranger to think of all those commercials showing how much you can
do offering 1$ a day to the poor when they have billions and the problems persist.
Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:26 am
Mystica
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 226 Location: Australia
Re: Nikola Tesla - The man who invented the modern world
I'm glad to find someone else who reveres Tesla as the greatest scientist who ever lived ... Bar none.
Benjamin Freedman wrote:
Tesla had a dream of providing free energy to the world. In 1900, backed by $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan, Tesla began construction of his so called "Wireless Broadcasting System" tower on Long Island, New York. This broadcasting tower was intended to link the world's telephone and telegraph services, as well as transmit pictures, stock reports, and weather information worldwide. Unfortunately, Morgan cut funding when he realized that it meant FREE energy for the world.
Tesla was literally burned at the stake for his Free energy dream .... From as high up as top of the pyramid he was hounded and ridiculed ... the last thing the masters wanted was Free anything.
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In his Manhattan lab, Tesla made the earth into an electric tuning fork. He managed to get a steam-driven oscillator to vibrate at the same frequency as the ground beneath him (like Ella Fitzgerald breaking the glass with her voice in those old Memorex commercials).
The result? An earthquake on all the surrounding city blocks. The buildings trembled, the windows broke, and the plaster fell off the walls.
Tesla contended that, in theory, the same principle could be used to destroy the Empire State Building or even possibly split the Earth in two. Tesla had accurately determined the resonant frequencies of the Earth almost 60 years before science could confirm his results.
In his Colorado Springs lab in 1899, he sent waves of energy all the way through the Earth, causing them to bounce back to the source (providing the theory for today's accurate earthquake seismic stations). When the waves came back, he added more electricity to it.
The result? The largest man-made lightning bolt ever recorded - 130 feet! - a world's record still unbroken!
The accompanying thunder was heard 22 miles away. The entire meadow surrounding his lab had a strange blue glow, similar to that of St. Elmo's Fire.
Here's a video that supports his claims .... HAARP was built to Tesla's spec's, I will also be posting this link in another post I have prepared, but thought this was a good place to post it first as it IS Tesla's technology they use.
Industry's attempt (obviously very successful) to purge him from the scientific literature had driven him into exile for nearly twenty years. Lacking capital, he was forced to place his untested theories into countless notebooks.
Many of which went missing at the time of his death, and began to emerge over the years ... Guess who used them first?
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The man who invented the modern world died nearly penniless at age 86 on January 7, 1943. More than two thousand people attended his funeral.
I guess that's why I feel an affinity towards him, he not only advocated free energy for the world in order to HELP mankind but he also died 2 days before my 2nd birthday.
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Unlike Edison, Tesla was an original thinker whose ideas typically had no precedent in science. Unfortunately, the world does not financially reward people of Tesla's originality. We only award those that take these concepts and turn them into a refined, useful product.
The way of the Hydra!! They don't reward freethinkers who has the benefits to mankind as his reasoning, PROFIT is everything and those who make profits must join the Hydra's hide. I'll explain that terminology to anyone who hasn't read my theory of the Hydra. I call it mine because I formed the theory years before it was ever mentioned by journalists etc ... (but not before Corporations used it as corporate headings, logos and symbols, which is what alerted me to their way of thinking)
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Scientists today continue to scour through his notes. Many of his far flung theories are just now being proven by our top scientists. For example, the Tesla bladeless disk turbine engine that he designed, when coupled with modern materials, is proving to be among the most efficient motors ever designed. His 1901 patented experiments with cryogenic liquids and electricity provide the foundation for modern superconductors. He talked about experiments that suggested particles with fractional charges of an electron - something that scientists in 1977 finally discovered - quarks!
And not forgetting the soapless (sonic) washing machine ... that can't get onto the market because of companies like Lever and Kitchen, Palmolive et al :evil3:
Hey Mystica, if you could shed some light on your theory I would love to read up on it.
Thanks,
Mario
Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:47 am
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glendalegolfs
Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Glendale California
Tesla A Genius Taken Advantage of , Yugoslavian Viewpoint
It is interesting how such an inventive genius of a human being - or rather beyond an inventive genius should manage to meet and attract a group of people , not just one , who took the credit for his inventions and ideas.
I can well understand the viewpoint of Tesla that he lived to figure things out and solve problems.
It is interesting that it was not just one person who took credit for Tesla's inventions ( perhaps a go between, a manager so to speak between the artist and the outside world) but many people who each took credit for one or a few of Tesla's works.
You would think that the mindset of such predatory people would lead them to take credit for many of Tela's inventions. Such people are often driven exlcusively by ego and bragging rights.
It is interesting that during the Cold War Yugoslavia ( now a number of "Balkan" Countries - Bosnia, Croatia and a whole host of ethnic countries that I cannot spell the names of ), or rather Yugoslavian people whe emmigrated to the west were somewhat perplexed about expounding the Tesla story , experience and legacy.
No one in the west seemed to know about their hero Nicolas Tesla , no one would believe their viewpoint and information, they would of be accused of insulting the heros of the western world with its leading edge technologies and utltimately people might think that "They were crazy".
Finally the proper story is getting out.
Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:24 am
Mystica
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 226 Location: Australia
Re: Tesla A Genius Taken Advantage of , Yugoslavian Viewpoin
glendalegolfs wrote:
Finally the proper story is getting out.
The story has been out for decades, unfortunately the ones who 'knew' didn't have the ability or the notoriety to inform the rest of the 'little' people. The bigg'uns have always known, as the story indicates.
There are several small 'free energy' groups still trying to put Tesla's technology into practice ... most get knocked out by the big guns.
Do a google on 'free energy' and 'Tesla technology' and see how many sites you come up with. There is also an official Nikola Tesla website
Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:47 am
false flag VIP
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 445 Location: melbourne, Australia
Build a Tesla turbine engine that can run on steam or compressed air.
http://www.fuellesspower.com/tesla.html
You have to pay for the plans but if you are serious about building the stuff the $11 is pretty cheap.
