Nickola Tesla - Absolute Pure Genius!
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Forget Edison, this fellow is responsible for AC electricity. He brought the world into the light by electrifying the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with manufacturing help from George Westinghouse.
He demonstrated a flourescent bulb long before it was available.
Tesla conducted succesful demonstartions of wirless electrical transmissions in 1888 in Colorado through use of his patented Tesla Coil.
He invented the first radio controlled device (a model boat).
Later, he proposed the concept of using sound waves to detect objects and determine their speed....17 years before radar was invented.
In 1901, he was disturbed by man's unbridled use of non-renewable energy sources such as coal (oil was just coming into play). He developed the first solar conversion cells; what he referred to as "conversion of radiant energy". It went nowhere as it was looked upon as mad scientist activity.
Some of his work was disturbing, such as his reputed "earthquake machine". A process by which he would determine a particular frequency of an object (everything has one) and generate an amplified replica of it until vibrations broke it up. This is a sound process. It is said that he was working on concentrating particle beams that could destroy aircraft up to 250 miles away. This was in the early 1940s. Tesla died in 1943 in the New Yorker Hotel. He was more and more bizarre toward the end, very much in the Howard Hughes mold. Upon his death, the FBI seized his papers. WWII was in progress and it was a worry that his ideas might aid the Axis powers. The papers were released in the early 1950s to the Tesla Museum in Eastern Europe. I wonder if they were all released?
As it is becoming more evident that this man was ahead of his time, Tesla is being re-investigated and rediscovered. We are apparently realizing that what was seen as madness in his day, is being better understood today.
This was all gone over on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" program. I must admit that, while aware of Tesla, I had no idea of the breadth of his achievements.
He demonstrated a flourescent bulb long before it was available.
Tesla conducted succesful demonstartions of wirless electrical transmissions in 1888 in Colorado through use of his patented Tesla Coil.
He invented the first radio controlled device (a model boat).
Later, he proposed the concept of using sound waves to detect objects and determine their speed....17 years before radar was invented.
In 1901, he was disturbed by man's unbridled use of non-renewable energy sources such as coal (oil was just coming into play). He developed the first solar conversion cells; what he referred to as "conversion of radiant energy". It went nowhere as it was looked upon as mad scientist activity.
Some of his work was disturbing, such as his reputed "earthquake machine". A process by which he would determine a particular frequency of an object (everything has one) and generate an amplified replica of it until vibrations broke it up. This is a sound process. It is said that he was working on concentrating particle beams that could destroy aircraft up to 250 miles away. This was in the early 1940s. Tesla died in 1943 in the New Yorker Hotel. He was more and more bizarre toward the end, very much in the Howard Hughes mold. Upon his death, the FBI seized his papers. WWII was in progress and it was a worry that his ideas might aid the Axis powers. The papers were released in the early 1950s to the Tesla Museum in Eastern Europe. I wonder if they were all released?
As it is becoming more evident that this man was ahead of his time, Tesla is being re-investigated and rediscovered. We are apparently realizing that what was seen as madness in his day, is being better understood today.
This was all gone over on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" program. I must admit that, while aware of Tesla, I had no idea of the breadth of his achievements.
Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 18th November 02:24
tank slapper said:
Tesla was one of those visionaries who come along very rarely. He was years ahead of his time, yet he is relatively unknown by the public despite the huge list of inventions and developments he made.
Odd isn't it? Perhaps the government did find something sinister in his works and worked to keep him obscure. Not to sound a conspiracy theorist, but some of his works were so far ahead of time that they could have understandably unsettled people.Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 18th November 03:06
"Later, he proposed the concept of using sound waves to detect objects and determine their speed....17 years before radar was invented."
You are mixing up sonar and radar. Sonar uses sound wave energy, radar uses radio wave energy.
Although Tesla was an important man, there were plenty of others experimenting in the same field at the same time and can be equally or more so considered inventors of electrical field generators that became radar, Heinrich Hertz was probably more important than Tesla in that field as he effectively invented radio waves, hence we measure radio frequency in Hertz. It was actually Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt who invented radar as we know it.
Sonar was in use practically in 1907, as a method to find icebergs.
You are mixing up sonar and radar. Sonar uses sound wave energy, radar uses radio wave energy.
Although Tesla was an important man, there were plenty of others experimenting in the same field at the same time and can be equally or more so considered inventors of electrical field generators that became radar, Heinrich Hertz was probably more important than Tesla in that field as he effectively invented radio waves, hence we measure radio frequency in Hertz. It was actually Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt who invented radar as we know it.
Sonar was in use practically in 1907, as a method to find icebergs.
johnfelstead said:
"Later, he proposed the concept of using sound waves to detect objects and determine their speed....17 years before radar was invented."
You are mixing up sonar and radar. Sonar uses sound wave energy, radar uses radio wave energy.
Although Tesla was an important man, there were plenty of others experimenting in the same field at the same time and can be equally or more so considered inventors of electrical field generators that became radar, Heinrich Hertz was probably more important than Tesla in that field as he effectively invented radio waves, hence we measure radio frequency in Hertz. It was actually Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt who invented radar as we know it.
Sonar was in use practically in 1907, as a method to find icebergs.
True, but he forwarded that theory as a side thought. His work in electricity, wireless electricty transmission, solar energy concepts, flourescent bulbs, and radio control soundly place him ahead of all others in those fields, IMO.You are mixing up sonar and radar. Sonar uses sound wave energy, radar uses radio wave energy.
Although Tesla was an important man, there were plenty of others experimenting in the same field at the same time and can be equally or more so considered inventors of electrical field generators that became radar, Heinrich Hertz was probably more important than Tesla in that field as he effectively invented radio waves, hence we measure radio frequency in Hertz. It was actually Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt who invented radar as we know it.
Sonar was in use practically in 1907, as a method to find icebergs.
Jimbeaux said:
Colonial said:
As usual, PR is unfortunately more important than the invention itself.
Public Relations? Absolutely. I put that down to him being so far ahead of his time that he was seen as a crackpot, thus, ignored.On a side note, been a few months, how's it been going?
Colonial said:
Jimbeaux said:
Colonial said:
As usual, PR is unfortunately more important than the invention itself.
Public Relations? Absolutely. I put that down to him being so far ahead of his time that he was seen as a crackpot, thus, ignored.On a side note, been a few months, how's it been going?
Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 18th November 03:32
Jimbeaux said:
This was all gone over on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" program. I must admit that, while aware of Tesla, I had no idea of the breadth of his achievements.
I've never even heard of him Jimbeaux, I'll have to read up on him when I'm not so tired, bloke was a genius by the sound of it.ZR1cliff said:
Jimbeaux said:
This was all gone over on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" program. I must admit that, while aware of Tesla, I had no idea of the breadth of his achievements.
I've never even heard of him Jimbeaux, I'll have to read up on him when I'm not so tired, bloke was a genius by the sound of it.It seems the more of a genius a person is the more outlandish they are viewed by others, and possibly become to themselves eventually. Spike milligan was an example of a comedy genius, yet sailed close to the wind of madness, perhaps a negative side prevalent in such people, who, because of how clever they are become isolated.
ZR1cliff said:
It seems the more of a genius a person is the more outlandish they are viewed by others, and possibly become to themselves eventually. Spike milligan was an example of a comedy genius, yet sailed close to the wind of madness, perhaps a negative side prevalent in such people, who, because of how clever they are become isolated.
I gather Tesla was close to madness also. sadako said:
ZR1cliff said:
It seems the more of a genius a person is the more outlandish they are viewed by others, and possibly become to themselves eventually. Spike milligan was an example of a comedy genius, yet sailed close to the wind of madness, perhaps a negative side prevalent in such people, who, because of how clever they are become isolated.
I gather Tesla was close to madness also. The man was a genius and quite rightly called the inventor of the modern world. There's a lot of good information on Wikipedia about him as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Also supposedly invented quite a few things that Thomas Edison took the plaudits for.
Also supposedly invented quite a few things that Thomas Edison took the plaudits for.
It's always a shame such people are held back, think how much more advanced we'd be if we accepted and worked with the ideas from the start.
I think we should have a world day for people like him, who really do advance the human race.
We still can't manage wireless electricity on a decent scale yet Tesla effectively done that with the Tesla coil. I believe the Tesla coil has many more uses we've not realised yet either...
Same with Leonardo da Vinci, it is said about 85% of his work has been 'lost', and we'd be about 200years ahead of ourselves if it wasn't. He invented things as simple as the humble pair of scissors, to a helicoptor+ tanks. Also spotted in specsavers the other day he came up with the idea for contact lenses too.
I think we should have a world day for people like him, who really do advance the human race.
We still can't manage wireless electricity on a decent scale yet Tesla effectively done that with the Tesla coil. I believe the Tesla coil has many more uses we've not realised yet either...
Same with Leonardo da Vinci, it is said about 85% of his work has been 'lost', and we'd be about 200years ahead of ourselves if it wasn't. He invented things as simple as the humble pair of scissors, to a helicoptor+ tanks. Also spotted in specsavers the other day he came up with the idea for contact lenses too.
Xaero said:
It's always a shame such people are held back, think how much more advanced we'd be if we accepted and worked with the ideas from the start.
I think we should have a world day for people like him, who really do advance the human race.
We still can't manage wireless electricity on a decent scale yet Tesla effectively done that with the Tesla coil. I believe the Tesla coil has many more uses we've not realised yet either...
Same with Leonardo da Vinci, it is said about 85% of his work has been 'lost', and we'd be about 200years ahead of ourselves if it wasn't. He invented things as simple as the humble pair of scissors, to a helicoptor+ tanks. Also spotted in specsavers the other day he came up with the idea for contact lenses too.
That's easy to say with hindsight, what about the millions of inventors who have been and gone with fantastic ideas that turned out to be junk? Which ones do we accept and work with from the start?I think we should have a world day for people like him, who really do advance the human race.
We still can't manage wireless electricity on a decent scale yet Tesla effectively done that with the Tesla coil. I believe the Tesla coil has many more uses we've not realised yet either...
Same with Leonardo da Vinci, it is said about 85% of his work has been 'lost', and we'd be about 200years ahead of ourselves if it wasn't. He invented things as simple as the humble pair of scissors, to a helicoptor+ tanks. Also spotted in specsavers the other day he came up with the idea for contact lenses too.
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