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posting this article is kinda like preachin to the choir but i thought maybe you guys's would enjoy it anywho
10 September 2012 Last updated at 06:23
Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks?
By Tom de Castella
BBC News Magazine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19503846
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Fans have rallied to buy the lab of inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla to turn it into a museum. But why do so few people appreciate the importance of Tesla's work?
Lots of people don't know who Nikola Tesla was.
He's less famous than Einstein. He's less famous than Leonardo. He's arguably less famous than Stephen Hawking.
Most gallingly for his fans, he's considerably less famous than his arch-rival Thomas Edison.
But his work helped deliver the power for the device on which you are reading this. His invention of the induction motor that would work with alternating current (AC) was a milestone in modern electrical systems.
Mark Twain, whom he later befriended, described his invention as "the most valuable patent since the telephone".
Nikola Tesla was increasingly eccentric in his later years Tesla was on the winning side in the War of the Currents - the battle between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison to establish whether AC or direct current (DC) would be used for electricity transmission. But as far as posterity goes, time has not been kind to Tesla.
Born in what is now Croatia to Serbian parents, he moved to New York in 1884 and developed radio controlled vehicles, wireless energy and the first hydro-electric plant at Niagara Falls. But he was an eccentric. He believed celibacy spurred on the brain, thought he had communicated with extraterrestrials, and fell in love with a pigeon.
Over recent decades he has drifted into relative obscurity, while Edison is lauded as one of the world's greatest inventors.
But his memory is kept alive by legions of "geeks" and science historians. A Tesla museum on the site of his former laboratory is being planned after a crowdfunding project orchestrated by The Oatmeal cartoon site. It raised more than its target of $850,000 - which will be matched by the New York state authorities - in the first week. The total is now well over $1m.
Quirky fan tributes to Tesla have sprung up online.
oh wow.. i missed this david bowie one of my all time favorite humans played him
how'd i ever miss that..
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David Bowie played Nikola Tesla in 2006 film The Prestige
A possible biopic starring Christian Bale and directed by Mike Newell is doing the rounds of the Hollywood rumour mill.
The crowdfunding idea was the brainchild of Matthew Inman, the cartoonist behind The Oatmeal. Inman heard of the museum appeal and decided to help. Tesla is a hero, he argues who "drop-kicked humanity into a second industrial revolution".
His triumph was his work on systems for AC.
Edison's DC worked well for lighting but could not be used to transmit electricity for long distances.
AC was backed by the Westinghouse Corporation. Its voltage could be stepped up and down easily so it could be transported over long distances at high voltage, using a lower current and therefore losing less energy in transit.
The stumbling block for AC had been motors. But Tesla's design for an induction motor and transformer cleared the way.
It's enough to justify a fair measure of adulation, says Inman.
"It's his absolute commitment to being a geek. He's more like Steve Wozniak than Steve Jobs. He's this insane mega genius."
Despite Tesla's lack of popular culture presence, the War of the Currents reads like the stuff of Hollywood film.
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Edison tried to discredit the rival technology as dangerous. He organised public electrocutions of animals - including an elephant - and secretly funded the development of the first electric chair, which he believed showed the dangers of AC.
The publicity campaign was not enough to overcome the clear advantages of AC.
Long-distance powerline systems like the UK's National Grid, transmitting electricity at 400,000 volts, are a testament to Tesla and his fellow AC advocates.
Tesla and Edison were very different types of genius, says Marc Grenther, chief curator of the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan.
Tesla liked to conceptualise and work things out in his head. He cared more about the idea than its practical exploitation.
Edison started with the commercial potential and would repetitively test things out with physical investigation
Thomas Edison tried to discredit Tesla's rival technology
"Tesla was more cerebral. It was like he inhabited the world of philosophy," Grenther says. "Edison was more hands on, it was seat of the pants stuff."
If they were both greats, why is it that Edison's reputation has grown while Tesla's has fallen away?
How we remember scientists isn't always fair, suggests Sir John Pendry, professor of physics at Imperial College London.
Sir Joseph Swann invented a lightbulb in Newcastle at the same time that Edison made his key invention in New York. But it is Edison who gets the credit.
It is not enough to have ideas, says Will Stewart, fellow of the Royal Institution of Engineering and Technology. "As an engineer you have to understand what is practical. The hard thing is whether it can be done with the technology you can get your hands on."
Tesla was "brilliant" but would relentlessly pursue an idea like wireless energy transfer, even when it appeared unachievable to others. Edison on the other hand was a forceful character who could win people over and turn ideas into a product.
"It's the nature of history that a few people get credited or debited with everything," Stewart adds.
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Today it's Albert Einstein not Hendrik Lorentz who is best known, even though some science historians see Einstein as having essentially tied up a series of threads Lorentz had first worked on.
Edison's lightbulb, the mass market car developed by Ford, or the computing products of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were things people could touch or see.
Tesla has a unit of measurement for magnetic field named after him. He is celebrated in Croatia and Serbia, where a power plant is named after him. Science "geeks" worship him. He has a rock band and a crater on the moon named after him. Then there's the range of electric cars. His is the classic cult following.
He died a penniless recluse in Suite 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. The mainstream cultural fame of an Einstein or an Edison still eludes him.
There's also the intangibility of what Tesla did, says Grenther
Local hero
>Serbia's main Belgrade airport re-named Nikola Tesla International Airport in 2006, the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth
>Tesla memorial complex, including museum inside his restored childhood home, opened in Smiljan village, Croatia, in 2006
>Power plant complex TPP Nikola Tesla about 24 miles (40km) from Belgrade.
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kjq6d
I have said elsewhere, that there are three things in this world, which have brought me to literal tears of joy.
Kali Ma, BSD UNIX, and Mr Tesla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29e5L1oQL8
Thank you, Otter. :D
QuoteTesla has a unit of measurement for magnetic field named after him. He is celebrated in Croatia and Serbia, where a power plant is named after him. Science "geeks" worship him. He has a rock band and a crater on the moon named after him. Then there's the range of electric cars. His is the classic cult following.
I think the main reason why I've always valued Tesla, possibly more than any other, is that his life was probably the single greatest example of how, from everything I've ever read, scientific study was really divinely meant to be engaged in.
As Max Planck also observed, the real great ones, the true masters, worked alone. Hinduism never saw any distinction or seperation between science and spirituality; and as an extension of this, I think it can be said that science belongs to the cave to the same extent that mysticism always has. As I could perhaps have expected, Mr Tesla is supposed to have spent some of the last nights of his life, listening to the lectures of Swami Vivekananda, a practitioner of and writer about raja yoga, in New York.
This is not the place for my usual ranting on the subject; but I will always repudiate atheism, and I will also always reject the idea that scientific research should be performed collectively. For me, the recent article about organic food, has been about the last nail in the coffin, for the establishment's credibility.
The outcasts, the recluses, those who work and remain alone in the cave and meditate or study while the rest of the world continues its' endless debauchery; they are mocked, rejected, and spat on while alive, but given enough time, they are always vindicated in the end.
It took nearly 500 years for Joan of Arc to be canonised by the Vatican. I am confident that eventually, Mr Tesla will have his own justice at last.
Marconi also stole the Radio from Tesla...
an error that has now been corrected... but way to late for Tesla
In hindsight Tesla might want to allow Mr. Macaroni to have that 'honor' after all -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgHBAmUBxp4
;)
But "radio waves" is the Tesla secret of wireless power transmission :D
a magnificent write up there Sky Otter, nice one.
As Tesla is my all time hero i appreciate any nice words paid tribute to the
great genius that he was.
epic. ;D
for pwm and the rest of us too
interesting thought when they mentioned mark twain..my brain jumped to his story of a yankee in king authur court..did he get the idea from talking with tesla on his ideas of moving matter?
get a nice beverage and sit back..not really new info but well done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5uiK_QnyrE
ok..had to go look up when it was written
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Croatian Military Frontier, in the territory of today's Croatia, he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen.[2] After his demonstration of wireless communication through radio in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.[3] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture,[4] but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist.[5][6] Tesla never put much focus on his finances. It is said he died impoverished, at the age of 86.
From Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_T...
turn the sound off for this one
TESLA LAB FOUND!!! - Wardenclyffe Tower .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHPQq_dxq6U
and just for fun..sound again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30
ah ha.. had to add this here.. a film coming about about Tesla and from a pgh guy.. what could be better...here's the article from the local paper
http://triblive.com/aande/somanyquestions/4689147-74/tesla-edison-really#axzz2fxFcTaBK
Filmmaker uncovers some truths about Tesla
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Michael Anton
By Kate Benz
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, 9:00 p.m.
Updated 24 hours ago
Nikola Tesla sparred with Thomas Edison, rubbed J.P. Morgan the wrong way and counted the likes of Mark Twain and George Westinghouse as close friends. His inventions came so fast and furiously that people began to doubt they were even real. Throughout history, he's been described as everything from "The Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived" to the "True Father of the Electric Age" to, simply stated, a "Badass."
Tesla, the man, the myth, the legend, is the subject of a biopic being written and directed by Pittsburgh's Michael Anton. Once cameras start rolling, filming will take place here, as well as in Belgrade, Serbia. During the course of his research, Anton found himself doing what a lot of people do once they get to know the eccentricity of this so-called "mad scientist": crushing on Tesla. It's easy to do. The quirks of the Serbian-born genius have a way of making you fall in love with him.
Although fans will have to wait for the release of the film (projected as sometime late 2014), a red carpet event Oct. 18 at 301 Fifth Ave., Downtown, will promote the project and raise awareness of the life and works of the mad scientist via a "mini-Tesla museum." (Tickets are available via Showclix.com).
Anton will be a featured guest at the ComiCon event being held at the Monroeville Convention Center from Sept. 27 through 29.
Question: Nikola Tesla has been dubbed the "True Father of the Electric Age" by many, yet he didn't seem to achieve the notoriety that Edison did. Why?
Answer: I always say you end up going through a process, when you start researching Tesla, of realizing that you really aren't taught everything there is to know about science and about who really invented different aspects of the 21st century. It's quite fascinating ... and that was my passion going into the film — having the same burden as most Tesla supporters of "Why doesn't anyone know this guy?"
The truth is, it has a lot to do with disassociation. He wasn't from here. The first person he worked for was Edison. I would put it under the preface of basically picking a fight with a rock star. At the time, Edison was significantly tied with politics, he was one of the most powerful men in the world and he happened to be doing something that was what everyone wanted to see and that was invention. At that point in time, what was in the papers was what new invention would come out, what was the hottest thing, and Tesla threatened that. And also, he was not one to really boast. He was definitely out there and could be relatively eccentric in that he would just say what he was thinking. In the war of currents, Tesla won, but he lost in the court of public opinion. He was such an unbelievable person in regards to what he created that people just stopped believing in him. That's really what happened. ... It's kind of amazing.
Q: How intense did the Edison-Tesla rivalry become?
A: It was absolutely ruthless. I understand where Edison was coming from. At the time, he invested his entire life savings in direct current and that is what he focused on. He had, obviously, the monopoly on that. So, basically, in my opinion, (Edison) was trying to protect the empire he created. And because of that, he tried to make (Tesla's) alternating current illegal. He tried to say it was dangerous. The very first electrocution in the electric chair in the United States was a failure. Not a lot of people talk about it. Although Edison and H.P. Brown were the ones that helped build and design that chair, they were using alternating current, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it took seven minutes for the first execution, for the person to eventually die. So basically, he was burning and cooking from the inside, and Edison utilized that. And no one blamed Edison, who helped design the chair . They ended up blaming George Westinghouse, and they ended up blaming Tesla. So, it was nasty. It was a nasty battle.
Q: Was Tesla his own worst enemy when it came to promoting his ideas with the world?
A: Absolutely. He was unreserved, and he was honest. But he was honest about what he felt of the potential of things. He talked about the idea of us being able to communicate, send a message to Mars. Of course, that turned into, "Tesla speaks to man on Mars." The way people look at him now and compare it to what we're used to in modern-day society, we would have absolutely loved him. We would have loved him for his quirks and for his honesty — he would have been a great interview. And he still was, he was a very articulate man, and people really did respect him. But, when he was angry or upset, he would let you know it, and he wasn't afraid to challenge anyone and everything. And J.P. Morgan was one of those. And when you challenge Edison, that's one thing, and that's a battle that was nearly impossible to win. But, when you challenge J.P. Morgan, it's another.
Q: Was there something about Tesla that surprised even you?
A: I think the relationship with Mark Twain and also Westinghouse. Tesla was very loyal, and I always thought that he was this loner, and he really wasn't. He really coveted his friendships. And these are such unique characters. I talk about Tesla and the project, and what's been fascinating to me is the amount of passion people have for Tesla, who've known about him, who start to learn about him. You start to understand in researching how people could fall in love with Tesla because he really is so unique.
Q: He's been called everything from "The Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived" to "Mad Scientist" to a "Badass." What would you call him?
A: "Father of the 20th Century." I like that one the most because it's so true. If you go down the list of what he created ... it's amazing. He shaped the 20th century. He even talked about text messaging, obviously, before we even had that option.
Kate Benz is the social columnist for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at kbenz@tribweb.com
i cant resist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1Mz7kGVf0
This is worth a read kids.
Its the 4th chapter from a book called
"Lost Science" by Gerry Vassilatos
Entitled "Broadcast Power"
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_24.htm
Here is the linky to the full book.
enjoy
Elvis
http://ebookbrowsee.net/44412023-gerry-vassilatos-lost-science-complete-edition-pdf-d305222450
somedaze i wonder how many teslas have been lost to us because they were different freaky to most others..?
lots of pics with the link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/nicola-tesla-love-pigeon-facts-inventor_n_4320773.html
Nikola Tesla Fell In Love With A Pigeon--And Six More Freaky Facts About Iconic Inventor
The Huffington Post | Posted: 12/03/2013 8:07 am EST | Updated: 12/03/2013 3:48 pm EST
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is best known for his pioneering research in electricity and robotics and for his numerous inventions, which include the eponymous Tesla coil.
But the Serbian-born scientist-inventor is also known for his strange obsessions and some truly bizarre behavior. (How many people do you know who have fallen in love with a bird?) Keep reading to learn the details about that and six other strange facts about the man who some consider one of science's great unsung heroes...
1. Tesla had a thing about the number three. A genius, for sure, but Tesla had more than his share of quirks. He was absolutely fixated on the number three, washing his hands three times in a row, and even walking around a building three times before entering it. The obsession may have been a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
2. Tesla detested pearls. Couldn't stand the sight of them. In fact, he hated pearls so much that he refused to speak to women who wore them. What explains his pearly aversion? No one knows for sure--though it, too, might have been evidence of OCD.
3. He was celibate. Married life was not for Tesla, who once said: "I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men." He reportedly thought that sex would hinder his scientific work.
4. He lived in a hotel room. Tesla lived many years in New York City, and spent his last decade living there in the Hotel New Yorker. He lived in room 3327, a two-room suite on the 33rd floor. It's where his peculiar fondness for pigeons played out (see below).
5. He was unusually fond of pigeons. Lots of folks feed pigeons in the park. Tesla didn't stop there. He used to find ailing pigeons and bring them back to his hotel room. One pigeon, in particular, stole his heart. As he wrote about her, "I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life."
6. He believed in eugenics. Tesla seemed to think that some people just weren't fit to produce offspring. According to Smithsonian.com, he wrote in a 1935 magazine article:
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
7. He claimed to have invented a death ray. Tesla may have loved animals, but he wasn't all about loving-kindness. In fact, he claimed to have invented a death ray he called "Teleforce," which he said would "send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks."
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Nikola Tesla's Quotes
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
- "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petkovi? in Politika (April 1927)
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
-A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)
"To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world..."
-Man's Greatest Achievement (1907;1930)
"What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife."
-My Inventions (1919)
"What has the future in store for this strange being, born of a breath, of perishable tissue, yet Immortal, with his powers fearful and Divine?"
-Man's Greatest Achievement (1907;1930)
"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains."
-The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900)
"This planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball."
-"The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires" in Electrical World and Engineer (5 March 1904)
"Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them."
-The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900)
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up... His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."
-"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in
Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
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Nikola Tesla Predicted Smartphones In 1926
The Huffington Post | By Damon Beres
Posted: 07/10/2015 4:03 pm EDT Updated: 46 minutes ago
People called Nikola Tesla a futurist, but maybe "psychic" would have been more accurate.
The inventor died in 1943 -- and would have been 159 years old on Friday -- but a look back at his musings reveals a startlingly accurate description of our modern life. In a 1926 interview with Collier's magazine reproduced by Twenty-First Century Books -- titled, amazingly, "When Woman Is Boss" -- Tesla basically predicted the smartphone.
Take a look (emphasis ours):
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
We shall be able to witness and hear events--the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle--just as though we were present.
When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires--they were telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train.
He also had a pretty interesting view on women:
The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
It is true that more women than men complete college and graduate school. Way to be prescient, Tesla!
The man's uncannily accurate predictions have certainly been documented before.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nikola-teslas-incredible-predictions-for-our-connected-1661107313
But, if you were looking for something to think over on the occasion of his 159th birthday -- perhaps while dining on Tesla coil cake -- the entire Collier's article is well worth a read.
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the entire Collier's article is well worth a read.
and here it is ;D
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm
WHEN WOMAN IS BOSS
An interview with Nikola Tesla by John B. Kennedy
Colliers, January 30, 1926
The life of the bee will be the life of our race, says Nikola Tesla, world-famed scientist.
A NEW sex order is coming--with the female as superior. You will communicate instantly by simple vest-pocket equipment. Aircraft will travel the skies, unmanned, driven and guided by radio. Enormous power will be transmitted great distances without wires. Earthquakes will become more and more frequent. Temperate zones will turn frigid or torrid. And some of these awe-inspiring developments, says Tesla, are not so very far off.
AT SIXTY-EIGHT years of age Nikola Tesla sits quietly in his study, reviewing the world that he has helped to change, foreseeing other changes that must come in the onward stride of the human race. He is a tall, thin, ascetic man who wears somber clothes and looks out at life with steady, deep-set eyes. In the midst of luxury he lives meagerly, selecting his diet with a precision almost extreme. He abstains from all beverages save water and milk and has never indulged in tobacco since early manhood.
He is an engineer, an inventor and, above these as well as basic to them, a philosopher. And, despite his obsession with the practical application of what a gifted mind may learn in books, he has never removed his gaze from the drama of life.
This world, amazed many times during the last throbbing century, will rub its eyes and stand breathless before greater wonders than even the past few generations have seen; and fifty years from now the world will differ more from the present-day than our world now differs from the world of fifty years ago.
Nikola Tesla came to America in early manhood, and his inventive genius found quick recognition. When fortune was his through his revolutionary power-transmission machines he established plants, first in New York, then Colorado, later on Long Island, where his innumerable experiments resulted in all manner of important and minor advances in electrical science. Lord Kelvin said of him (before he was forty) that he had contributed more than any other man to the study of electricity.
"From the inception of the wireless system," he says, "I saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit to the human race than any other scientific discovery, for it virtually eliminates distance. The majority of the ills from which humanity suffers are due to the immense extent of the terrestrial globe and the inability of individuals and nations to come into close contact.
"Wireless will achieve the closer contact through transmission of intelligence, transport of our bodies and materials and conveyance of energy.
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
"We shall be able to witness and hear events--the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle--just as though we were present.
"When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires--they were telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train.
Woman--Free and Regal
ALL railroads will be electrified, and if there are enough museums to hold them the steam locomotives will be grotesque antiques for our immediate posterity.
"Perhaps the most valuable application of wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying machines, which will carry no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the present airplanes and dirigibles. We shall ride from New York to Europe in a few hours. International boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great step will be made toward the unification and harmonious existence of the various races inhabiting the globe. Wireless will not only make possible the supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it will be effective politically by harmonizing international interests; it will create understanding instead of differences.
"Modern systems of power transmission will become antiquated. Compact relay stations one half or one quarter the size of our modern power plants will be the basis of operation--in the air and under the sea, for water will effect small loss in conveying energy by wireless."
Mr. Tesla foresees great changes in our daily life. "Present wireless receiving apparatus," says he, "will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all forms of interference will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that the household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during the night. Domestic management--the problems of heat, light and household mechanics--will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power.
"I foresee the development of the flying machine exceeding that of the automobile, and I expect Mr. Ford to make large contributions toward this progress. The problem of parking automobiles and furnishing separate roads for commercial and pleasure traffic will be solved. Belted parking towers will arise in our large cities, and the roads will be multiplied through sheer necessity, or finally rendered unnecessary when civilization exchanges wheels for wings.
The world's internal reservoirs of heat, indicated by frequent volcanic eruptions, will be tapped for industrial purposes. In an article I wrote twenty years ago I defined a process for continuously converting to human use part of the heat received from the sun by the atmosphere. Experts have jumped to the conclusion that I am attempting to realize a perpetual-motion scheme. But my process has been carefully worked out. It is rational."
Mr. Tesla regards the emergence of woman as one of the most profound portents for the future.
"It is clear to any trained observer," he says, "and even to the sociologically untrained, that a new attitude toward sex discrimination has come over the world through the centuries, receiving an abrupt stimulus just before and after the World War.
"This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fermenting in the bosom of the race.
"It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
"Through countless generations, from the very beginning, the social subservience of women resulted naturally in the partial atrophy or at least the hereditary suspension of mental qualities which we now know the female sex to be endowed with no less than men.
The Queen is the Center of Life
"BUT the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
"The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee."
The significance of this lies in the principle dominating the economy of the bee--the most highly organized and intelligently coordinated system of any form of nonrational animal life--the all-governing supremacy of the instinct for immortality which makes divinity out of motherhood.
The center of all bee life is the queen. She dominates the hive, not through hereditary right, for any egg may be hatched into a reigning queen, but because she is the womb of this insect race.
We Can Only Sit and Wonder
THERE are the vast, desexualized armies of workers whose sole aim and happiness in life is hard work. It is the perfection of communism, of socialized, cooperative life wherein all things, including the young, are the property and concern of all.
Then there are the virgin bees, the princess bees, the females which are selected from the eggs of the queen when they are hatched and preserved in case an unfruitful queen should bring disappointment to the hive. And there are the male bees, few in number, unclean of habit, tolerated only because they are necessary to mate with the queen.
When the time is ripe for the queen to take her nuptial flight the male bees are drilled and regimented. The queen passes the drones which guard the gate of the hive, and the male bees follow her in rustling array. Strongest of all the inhabitants of the hive, more powerful than any of her subjects, the queen launches into the air, spiraling upward and upward, the male bees following. Some of the pursuers weaken and fail, drop out of the nuptial chase, but the queen wings higher and higher until a point is reached in the far ether where but one of the male bees remains. By the inflexible law of natural selection he is the strongest, and he mates with the queen. At the moment of marriage his body splits asunder and he perishes.
The queen returns to the hive, impregnated, carrying with her tens of thousands of eggs--a future city of bees, and then begins the cycle of reproduction, the concentration of the teeming life of the hive in unceasing work for the birth of a new generation.
Imagination falters at the prospect of human analogy to this mysterious and superbly dedicated civilization of the bee; but when we consider how the human instinct for race perpetuation dominates life in its normal and exaggerated and perverse manifestations, there is ironic justice in the possibility that this instinct, with the continuing intellectual advance of women, may be finally expressed after the manner of the bee, though it will take centuries to break down the habits and customs of peoples that bar the way to such a simiply and scientifically ordered civilization.
We have seen a beginning of this in the United States. In Wisconsin the sterilization of confirmed criminals and pre-marriage examination of males is required by law, while the doctrine of eugenics is now boldly preached where a few decades ago its advocacy was a statutory offense.
Old men have dreamed dreams and young men have seen visions from the beginning of time. We of today can only sit and wonder when a scientist has his say.
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http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nikola-teslas-incredible-predictions-for-our-connected-1661107313
cute pictures at link
Nikola Tesla's Incredible Predictions For Our Connected World
Matt Novak
Filed to: nikola tesla 1/06/15 2:30pm
We might complain that it's 2015 and we're still waiting on our hoverboards. But if Nikola Tesla were alive today, he'd probably wonder where the hell our fuel-free, super fast airplanes were. And who could blame him? Fuel-free planes aside, he actually predicted a lot of 21st century technologies quite accurately.
The January 30, 1926 issue of Collier's magazine included an interview with the legendary inventor. In it, Tesla relayed his amazing predictions for the future — a world of flying machines, wireless power, and female superiority. Some of the predictions were spot on. Others, not so much.
Tesla on TV and portable phones
July 1922 cover of Science and Invention imagining broadcast TV
At the beginning of 1926, when this interview with Tesla was published, television was barely making its first baby steps. But Tesla was already looking into the distant world of videophones, broadcast TV, and worldwide mobile communication.
Tesla explained:
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
We shall be able to witness and hear events—the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle—just as though we were present.
When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires—they were telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train.
Wireless transmission of power was of particular interest to Tesla, but it's his predictions around mobile phone technology that have proved most prescient here in the early 21st century.
1925 Postcard of Future New York
Tesla was incredibly optimistic about the future of flying machines from the perspective of 1926.
Perhaps the most valuable application of wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying machines, which will carry no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the present airplanes and dirigibles. We shall ride from New York to Europe in a few hours. International boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great step will be made toward the unification and harmonious existence of the various races inhabiting the globe. Wireless will not only make possible the supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it will be effective politically by harmonizing international interests; it will create understanding instead of differences.
The idea of zipping from New York to London in just a few hours would remain a fantasy until the jet age, but we're still waiting on airplanes that "carry no fuel," as he predicted.
Tesla on wireless power and printing newspapers in the home
April 1934 cover of Radio Craft magazine
Tesla was way ahead of his time in so many ways. And since he and Hugo Gernsback were friends, one can draw a direct line between some of the ideas that Tesla had and the fascinating predictions that would show up in Gernsback's many tech and sci-fi magazines. One perfect example is that of the wireless newspaper:
Present wireless receiving apparatus will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all forms of interference will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that the household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during the night. Domestic management—the problems of heat, light and household mechanics—will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power.
Tesla was predicting wireless newspapers in the 1920s, but the folks at companies like RCA would actually get test runs of wireless newspaper printing in the home by the 1930s. Aside from being incredibly noisy and slow, the things actually worked.
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Tesla on female superiority, for better and worse
Four women on the beach at Southsea via Getty
Nikola Tesla proclaimed in the article that one day soon women would rise to be superior to men. But he didn't exactly mean that as a positive thing. In fact, within the context of his beliefs at the time, he was downright terrified that women would become "victims" of their own success.
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From Collier's:
It is clear to any trained observer and even to the sociologically untrained, that a new attitude toward sex discrimination has come over the world through the centuries, receiving an abrupt stimulus just before and after the World War.
This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fermenting in the bosom of the race.
It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
Through countless generations, from the very beginning, the social subservience of women resulted naturally in the partial atrophy or at least the hereditary suspension of mental qualities which we now know the female sex to be endowed with no less than men.
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and
and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee."
Nikola Tesla had a complicated relationship with women. By many accounts he didn't know how best to communicate with them. He even had one secretary fired because he believed she was too fat. He told her as much.
Tesla on eugenics and the perfection of humanity
Eugenics tree from 1921
At the end of the Collier's article we see hints of Tesla's ideas around eugenics that would pervade the later part of his life.
Imagination falters at the prospect of human analogy to this mysterious and superbly dedicated civilization of the bee; but when we consider how the human instinct for race perpetuation dominates life in its normal and exaggerated and perverse manifestations, there is ironic justice in the possibility that this instinct, with the continuing intellectual advance of women, may be finally expressed after the manner of the bee, though it will take centuries to break down the habits and customs of peoples that bar the way to such a simply and scientifically ordered civilization.
We have seen a beginning of this in the United States. In Wisconsin the sterilization of confirmed criminals and pre-marriage examination of males is required by law, while the doctrine of eugenics is now boldly preached where a few decades ago its advocacy was a statutory offense.
Old men have dreamed dreams and young men have seen visions from the beginning of time. We of today can only sit and wonder when a scientist has his say.
Tesla's advocacy of forced sterilization and government approval of marriage partners wasn't that bizarre in some circles, but they're certainly an aspect of Tesla's belief system that many people here in the 21st century would like to forget.
Tesla was a brilliant inventor and visionary thinker. He was a complex man with ideas about women and eugenics that may have been fashionable to some at the time, but cause modern thinkers to recoil. Same as it never was, I suppose.
did a wrong click and found this.. what a way to start the new year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATzLkr9JXk
Wardenclyffe Tower was never turned onhttp://anengineersaspect.blogspot.com/2013/12/teslas-wardenclyffe-tower-is-demolished.html
Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower is Demolished - 1917
Nanette South Clark 5 years ago Hugo Gernsback, Nikola Tesla, The Electrical Experimenter, Wardenclyffe Tower
QuoteOn July 4, 1917, the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, Long Island, New York, was demolished by the federal government. The following article claims the government thought that it was being used as a communication tower by German spies.
According to pbs.org, J.P. Morgan was the original source of funding for the Wardenclyffe Tower: "Morgan offered Tesla $150,000 to build a transmission tower and power plant. A more realistic sum would have been $1,000,000, but Tesla took what was available and went to work immediately. In spite of what he told his investor, Tesla's actual plan was to make a large-scale demonstration of electrical power transmission without wires. This turned out to be a fatal mistake."
Tesla acquired the land for the tower from James S. Warden, a lawyer/banker. Mr. Warden believed the resort community he built, "Wardenclyffe-On-Sound," would become one of the world's first "Radio Cities." He donated 200 acres to Tesla's project.
In 1901, it became clear that the tower was severely underfunded. Then, asserts pbs.org, "on December 12, 1901, the world awoke to the news that Marconi had signaled the letter "S" across the Atlantic from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland. Tesla, unruffled by the accomplishment, explained that the Italian used 17 Tesla patents to accomplish the transmission. But Morgan began to doubt Tesla. Marconi's system not only worked, it was also inexpensive." This statement is summarily contradicted by Nikola Tesla in The Electrical Experimenter in 1919.
Tesla begged for funds but could find none. This was closely followed by the stock market crashing and prices for building materials doubling. In 1905, the Wardenclyffe Tower project had to be abandoned. The newspapers called it, "Tesla's million dollar folly." (pbs.org)
In the June, 1919, edition of The Electrical Experimenter, Tesla talks about the Wardenclyffe Tower: "A plant was built on Long Island with a tower 187 feet high, having a spherical terminal about 68 feet in diameter. These dimensions were adequate for the transmission of virtually any amount of energy. Originally only from 200 to 300 K.W. were provided but I intended to employ later several thousand horsepower. The transmitter was to emit a wave-complex of special characteristics and I had devised a unique method of telephonic control of any amount of energy."
a very long and interesting read quoting from the pbs. org article
herehttps://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_todre.html
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower#/media/File:Tesla_Broadcast_Tower_1904.jpeg
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Tesla_Broadcast_Tower_1904.jpeg)
QuoteNikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe wireless station, located in Shoreham, New York, seen in 1904. The 187 foot (57 m) transmitting tower appears to rise from the building but actually stands on the ground behind it. Built by Tesla from 1901 to 1904 with backing from Wall Street banker J. P. Morgan, the experimental facility was intended to be a transatlantic radiotelegraphy station and wireless power transmitter, but was never completed. The tower was torn down in 1916 but the lab building, designed by noted New York architect Stanford White remains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
QuoteIn an attempt to satisfy Tesla's debts, the tower was demolished for scrap in 1917 and the property taken in foreclosure in 1922. For 50 years, Wardenclyffe was a processing facility producing photography supplies. Many buildings were added to the site and the land it occupies has been trimmed down to 16 acres (6.5 ha) but the original, 94 by 94 ft (29 by 29 m), brick building designed by Stanford White remains standing to this day.
In the 1980s and 2000s, hazardous waste from the photographic era was cleaned up, and the site was sold and cleared for new development. A grassroots campaign to save the site succeeded in purchasing the property in 2013, with plans to build a future museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla. In 2018 the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
pssst does this look at all familiar? dang aliens...bhahahahahahah(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/US_patent_1119732_Nikola_Tesla_1907_Apparatus_for_transmitting_electrical_energy.png/220px-US_patent_1119732_Nikola_Tesla_1907_Apparatus_for_transmitting_electrical_energy.png)
Tesla's Magnifying "Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy" U.S. Patent 1,119,732 covered the basic function of the device used at Wardenclyffe
this is short enough to watch and some good tesla info if you didn't already know it
en~joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L5rKNC7kHc