He's a virtualy unknown in the United States, despite his accomplishments. I'm not sure why. Some people feel it's a dark plot, the same people who are into conspiracy theories. I feel it's more that Tesla, while a brilliant inventor, was also an awful businessman; he ended up going broke. Businessmen who go broke fade out of the public eye; we see this in the computer industry all the time. Edison, who wasn't near the inventor Tesla was, but who was a better businessman, is well remembered as is his General Electric. Still, let me list a few of Tesla's works just so you'll understand how bright he was. He invented the AC motor and transformer. (Think of every motor in your house.) He invented 3-phase electricity and popularized alternating current, the electrical distribution system used all over the world. He invented the Tesla Coil, which makes the high voltage that drives the picture tube in your computer's CRT. He is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla
Tesla, in short, invented much of the equipment that gets power to your home every day from miles away, and many that use that power inside your home.
He was of Serb descent and most of his work was conducted in the United States.
You've heard of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars". We're searching for a way to stop a nuclear attack. Right now, we've got all sorts of high powered research projects, with the emphasis on "new technology". Excimer laser, kinetic kill techniques, and even more exotic ideas. As any of you know that have written computer programs, it's darned hard to get something "new" to work. Maybe it's an error to focus on "new" exclusively. Wouldn't it be something if the solution to SDI lies a hundred years ago, in the forgotten brilliance of Nikola Tesla? For right now we can immobilize the electronics of installations half a planet away. The technology to do it was achieved in 1899, and promptly forgotten.
Tesla's investors dropped the project when they realized there was no way to meter the power to make money on the end user. We've been trying to catch up for 100 years and are still far behind where he was with his understanding of radiant energy. With reportedly over 700 patents awarded him worldwide, no wonder it has taken us so long to catch up. The man who shaped the twentieth century, with his invention of the radio, radar, x-ray, AC power, and the induction motor, is now shaping the twenty-first century as we finally begin implementing his methods of tapping and distributing free energy.
Dr. Nikola Tesla not only wanted to give the world free energy, Tesla developed components of technology whereby it could be accomplished. Tesla was a physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer of unusual intellectual brilliance and practical achievement,who contributed to later developments in a number of fields, including robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics and theoretical physics.
Remember, we're not talking vague, unproven theories here. We're talking the world's record for lightning, and the inventor whose power system lights up your house at night.
How many people on this Planet can boast about having their life work can be seen from outer space ?
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----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: NIKOLA TESLA Date: Feb 16, 2008 10:29 AM
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Military Frontier, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen.
According to legend, Tesla was born precisely at midnight during an electrical storm, to a Serbian family in the village of Smiljan near Gospic, in the Lika region of the Croatian Krajina in Military Frontier (part of the Austrian Empire), in the present-day Croatia.
His baptism certificate reports that he was born on June 28 (N.S. July 10), 1856, and christened by the Serbian Orthodox priest Toma Oklobdzija. His father was Rev. Milutin Tesla, a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church Metropolitanate of Sremski Karlovci. Milutin was born on 19 February 1819 in the village of Meduc, county Medak in Lika, Austrian Empire, as son of Nikola Tesla (b. 1789 in the military frontier, settled after his service in the Napoleonic Wars in Gospic in 1815) and Ana Kalinic, from the famous frontier Kalinic family. Tesla's family asserted its last name as such in Lika. His paternal origin is thought to be of the Draganic family from the Tara valley area below the geographical entity known as Old Vlach, from one of the local Serb clans; however genealogical research shows that Nikola is from the Herzegovinian noble Komnenovic (modern-day Old Herzegovina in Montenegro), from its Orlovic subgroup that traces its origin from the semi-mythic Pavle Orlovic that bore Prince Lazar's banner at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. His mother was Djuka Mandic, herself a daughter of a Serbian Orthodox Church priest. She came from a family domiciled in Lika and Banija, but with deeper origins to Kosovo. She was talented in making home craft tools. She memorized many Serbian epic poems, but never learned to read. His godfather, Jovan Drenovac, was a captain in the army protecting the Military Frontier.
Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have deemed him "the man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity."
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943.) Serbian inventor The patron saint of modern electricity
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Technological advances will, in times to come,
remove the causes of war the chief of which is the vast extent of this planet
on which we live.
Only through the annihilation of distance…
will the conditions be brought about some day,
insuring permanency of friendly relation. The gradual annihilation of distance will put the human beings in closer contacts and harmonize their views and aspirations. The harnessing of the forces of nature will banish the misery and want and provide ample means for a safe and comfortable existence. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races .
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So, as you work on a computer, remember Tesla. His "Tesla Coil" supplies the high voltage for the picture tube you use. The electricity for your computer comes from a Tesla design AC generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer, and gets to your house through 3-phase Tesla power.
Tesla's inventions ... they have a way of working.
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Do you know the three easier to live of all?
The first is the wheel. That was about 5 000 years ago.
The second was movable typing press.
That was invented in about 1 500.
The third is Tesla.. s polyphase alternating current.
I plunge into thought... the idea comes as a flashing lightning.In an instant I see all.
Just as I believe in any physical truth, I believe also that the motivating impulses must come from the out side.
I was about twelve years old when I first succeeded
in banishing an image from my vision by willful effort,
but I never had any control over the flashes of light
to which I have referred. They were, perhaps,
my strangest experience and inexplicable.
They usually occurred when I found myself in a dangerous
or distressing situation or when I was greatly exhilarated.
In some instance I have seen all the air around me
filled with tongues of living flame...
My name is Tesla. Nikola Tesla ...
I'm Discoverer.
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he
despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these
three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does
not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. ~Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
Happy birthday, Nico. If it were not for your discovery of AC(Alternating Current), people might couldn't have the life just as "current". Wish you have peaceful days with your dove. Spana
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