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NIKOLA TESLA (10th July 1856 - 7th January 1943)
"THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE 20th CENTURY"
Tesla was a Serb-American inventor, most famous for his contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th/early 20th century. Ironically, legend has it that this guy was BORN PRECISELY AT MIDNIGHT DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM...not sure about that one! His fame rivaled that of most other inventors simply because many of his discoveries were ground breaking. After he died at the age of 86, the SI unit measuring magnetic field was named in his honour...the TESLA. Throughout his life, Tesla contibuted to robotics, computer science, nuclear physics, ballistics, theoretical physics and much more.
I've sat and research this man but in all honesty, most of what he did is way beyond me. Although I know what he did, I have no idea what it all actually means. SO...I looked into the man himself...what made him who he was???
He was known to many as "the mad scientist," this was down to bizarre claims about possible scientific developments. Since his death, many of his findings have been used with some CONTROVERSY to back up various pseudosciences for example UFO THEORIES!! After leaving school, he studied only one term of electrical engineering, obviously didn't graduate and followed that with one term in Prague studying physics and Maths. That was it for him, he was done, now he was off into the real world inventing real stuff. Clearly very interlligent, he was also lucky enough to have a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. He claimed that he'd often have "blinding flashed of light and hallucinations. Often these visions would be linked to an idea he may have had, just by hearing the name of an item. He'd mentally visualise an invention in precise detail, making improvements, and operating the device in his mind, knowing the exact measurements etc before construction the object. The object was always perfect! PICTURE THINKING.
USED AND ABUSED...
Working with a man called Thomas EDISON had an effect of Teslas PERSONALITY. Edison offered Tesla 50.000 dollars to completely re-design the company's DC generators. After doing the job, Edison took back the promise and said "you don't understand American humor." Tesla obviously resigned and took up a job of digging ditches, ironically for Edisons company, he needed the money to survive and continued to carry out research on Alternating Current, AC. This made Tesal very BITTER.
Tesla set up his own company, Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing but due to disagreements about AC, with his investors, he was relieved of his duties and again, became a COMMON LABOURER. Later he moved on to working with a man called GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE. He invented the AC induction motor and developed the principles of the TESLA COIL. Tesla system would allow TRANSMISSION OF AC ELECTRICITY OVER LARGE DISTANCES. He then looked into developing what would later be referred to as X-RAYS and the HAZARDS of working with X-ray producing devices.
After setting up HIS OWN LABS he investigated a machine for inducing sleep, cordless gas discharge lamps, transmitted elecromagnetic energy with out wires, effectively building the 1st radio transmitter.
WAR OF CURRENTS...
Problems with AC over DC lead Tesla to bankruptcy. Through all his financial difficulties, he was NEVER INTERESTED IN MONEY, if he had none, he would work to get some. He shows himself to be a very modest man, only interested in his work. He sis not actively persew commercial exploitation.
"TESLA NEVER MARRIED, HE WAS ASEXUAL AND CLAIMED THAT HIS CHASTITY WAS VERY HELPFUL TO HIS SCIENTIFIC ABILITIES."
A donation scheme was set up, where American companies could support him but he declined. Instead, he chose to live on a state pension from the government and continued his research. At this point in his life he was also showing signs of OCD....AN OBSESSION WITH THE NUMBER 3!!! Examples of this were needing 3 napkins at diner and walking round the block 3 times.....crazy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gt01CMlFFA
Tesla was critical of even Einsteins work on relativity.
THEORIZE...
Tesla began to theorize about electricity and magnetism's power to CHANGE SPACE AND TIME. His interest in light as a particle wave lead to his invention of a WALL OF LIGHT. This would allow time, space, gravity and matter to be changed at will. The Sci-Fi geeks loved this...they all got on board and engineered an array of proposals including anti gravity airships, teleportation and time travel!
TESLAS FLYING MACHINE...he wanted to invent something that would fly, without wings, propellers, an engine r an on board fuel source, suggesting it would run mechanically. The appearance would be that of a cigar or saucer...again, later enticing UFO conspiracy theorists.
DEATH...
Found dead in a New York hotel room, heart failure, aged 86. Although he sold his AC electricity patents, he was DESTITUTE and had significant debts. It was not until he had died that he was recognised as the INVENTOR OF THE RADIO. Although most of his work conformed with principles accepted by science, his EXTRAVOGANT PERSONALITY and sometimes unrealistic claims, combined with genius all made him a popular figure with theorists and believers in conspiracies and HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE.
"HE WAS AN ANGELIC BEING SENT FROM VENUS TO EARTH TO REVEAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO HUMANITY."
WIRELESS...
Teslas objective was to PROVIDE ENERGY/POWER EQUALLY TO ALL, he saw the distinction between the people who did have and the people who din't and wanted to erase it. He wanted free energy to everyone, without fuel...TESLA DISCOVERED WIRELESS TRANSMISSION!!! He sought to REMOVE DISTANCE eg in communication and in doing so hoped to ensure friendly international relations.
"A WORLD WITH OUT WIRES, A WORLD WITH FREE UNLIMITED ENERGY"
DEATH WAEPON...
2 million dollars would be the construction cost of 12 of these weapons. He believed that they could end all wars. The machine would take one particle and accelerate it using high voltage to great velocity, therefore causing lots of destruction. The US government took an interest because that saw that the world was on the verge of WW1. Different segments of the plans for this weapon were given to different countries so that they'd have to solve the problem together. Nobody knows what happened to these weapons, they disappeared after he died.
Nikola Tesla was ridiculed his whole life, he was so advanced in his thinking and his radical and eccentric statements did not help him. He was PERSEEVED as snobbish and over confident, therefore ostracized. It was after his death that many of his scrutinized statements were then adopted.
Basics of energy...NOTHING THAT GIVES US SOMETHING.
NIKOLA TESLA (10th July 1856 - 7th January 1943)
"THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE 20th CENTURY"
Tesla was a Serb-American inventor, most famous for his contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th/early 20th century. Ironically, legend has it that this guy was BORN PRECISELY AT MIDNIGHT DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM...not sure about that one! His fame rivaled that of most other inventors simply because many of his discoveries were ground breaking. After he died at the age of 86, the SI unit measuring magnetic field was named in his honour...the TESLA. Throughout his life, Tesla contibuted to robotics, computer science, nuclear physics, ballistics, theoretical physics and much more.
I've sat and research this man but in all honesty, most of what he did is way beyond me. Although I know what he did, I have no idea what it all actually means. SO...I looked into the man himself...what made him who he was???
He was known to many as "the mad scientist," this was down to bizarre claims about possible scientific developments. Since his death, many of his findings have been used with some CONTROVERSY to back up various pseudosciences for example UFO THEORIES!! After leaving school, he studied only one term of electrical engineering, obviously didn't graduate and followed that with one term in Prague studying physics and Maths. That was it for him, he was done, now he was off into the real world inventing real stuff. Clearly very interlligent, he was also lucky enough to have a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. He claimed that he'd often have "blinding flashed of light and hallucinations. Often these visions would be linked to an idea he may have had, just by hearing the name of an item. He'd mentally visualise an invention in precise detail, making improvements, and operating the device in his mind, knowing the exact measurements etc before construction the object. The object was always perfect! PICTURE THINKING.
USED AND ABUSED...
Working with a man called Thomas EDISON had an effect of Teslas PERSONALITY. Edison offered Tesla 50.000 dollars to completely re-design the company's DC generators. After doing the job, Edison took back the promise and said "you don't understand American humor." Tesla obviously resigned and took up a job of digging ditches, ironically for Edisons company, he needed the money to survive and continued to carry out research on Alternating Current, AC. This made Tesal very BITTER.
Tesla set up his own company, Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing but due to disagreements about AC, with his investors, he was relieved of his duties and again, became a COMMON LABOURER. Later he moved on to working with a man called GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE. He invented the AC induction motor and developed the principles of the TESLA COIL. Tesla system would allow TRANSMISSION OF AC ELECTRICITY OVER LARGE DISTANCES. He then looked into developing what would later be referred to as X-RAYS and the HAZARDS of working with X-ray producing devices.
After setting up HIS OWN LABS he investigated a machine for inducing sleep, cordless gas discharge lamps, transmitted elecromagnetic energy with out wires, effectively building the 1st radio transmitter.
WAR OF CURRENTS...
Problems with AC over DC lead Tesla to bankruptcy. Through all his financial difficulties, he was NEVER INTERESTED IN MONEY, if he had none, he would work to get some. He shows himself to be a very modest man, only interested in his work. He sis not actively persew commercial exploitation.
"TESLA NEVER MARRIED, HE WAS ASEXUAL AND CLAIMED THAT HIS CHASTITY WAS VERY HELPFUL TO HIS SCIENTIFIC ABILITIES."
A donation scheme was set up, where American companies could support him but he declined. Instead, he chose to live on a state pension from the government and continued his research. At this point in his life he was also showing signs of OCD....AN OBSESSION WITH THE NUMBER 3!!! Examples of this were needing 3 napkins at diner and walking round the block 3 times.....crazy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gt01CMlFFA
Tesla was critical of even Einsteins work on relativity.
THEORIZE...
Tesla began to theorize about electricity and magnetism's power to CHANGE SPACE AND TIME. His interest in light as a particle wave lead to his invention of a WALL OF LIGHT. This would allow time, space, gravity and matter to be changed at will. The Sci-Fi geeks loved this...they all got on board and engineered an array of proposals including anti gravity airships, teleportation and time travel!
TESLAS FLYING MACHINE...he wanted to invent something that would fly, without wings, propellers, an engine r an on board fuel source, suggesting it would run mechanically. The appearance would be that of a cigar or saucer...again, later enticing UFO conspiracy theorists.
DEATH...
Found dead in a New York hotel room, heart failure, aged 86. Although he sold his AC electricity patents, he was DESTITUTE and had significant debts. It was not until he had died that he was recognised as the INVENTOR OF THE RADIO. Although most of his work conformed with principles accepted by science, his EXTRAVOGANT PERSONALITY and sometimes unrealistic claims, combined with genius all made him a popular figure with theorists and believers in conspiracies and HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE.
"HE WAS AN ANGELIC BEING SENT FROM VENUS TO EARTH TO REVEAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO HUMANITY."
WIRELESS...
Teslas objective was to PROVIDE ENERGY/POWER EQUALLY TO ALL, he saw the distinction between the people who did have and the people who din't and wanted to erase it. He wanted free energy to everyone, without fuel...TESLA DISCOVERED WIRELESS TRANSMISSION!!! He sought to REMOVE DISTANCE eg in communication and in doing so hoped to ensure friendly international relations.
"A WORLD WITH OUT WIRES, A WORLD WITH FREE UNLIMITED ENERGY"
DEATH WAEPON...
2 million dollars would be the construction cost of 12 of these weapons. He believed that they could end all wars. The machine would take one particle and accelerate it using high voltage to great velocity, therefore causing lots of destruction. The US government took an interest because that saw that the world was on the verge of WW1. Different segments of the plans for this weapon were given to different countries so that they'd have to solve the problem together. Nobody knows what happened to these weapons, they disappeared after he died.
Nikola Tesla was ridiculed his whole life, he was so advanced in his thinking and his radical and eccentric statements did not help him. He was PERSEEVED as snobbish and over confident, therefore ostracized. It was after his death that many of his scrutinized statements were then adopted.
Basics of energy...NOTHING THAT GIVES US SOMETHING.
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