Posted on 09/29/2005 6:49:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
Tesla is being proclaimed as by the cult worshippers as the greatest mind every. They claim many of his inventions were stolen from him and claimed by others. The radio comes first to mind.
The Tesla coil is claimed to be the greatest invention in history by those who worship Tesla. It is claimed that vested interestes are keeping the value of the coil from being passed on to mankind.
There are a number of Tesla devotees who feel that much of Tesla's work has been deliberately hidden or suppressed because the applications of his work would bring about energy independence FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL. He also was reputed to have created the first directed energy beam weapons but had trouble aiming them....some wags(get your tin foil hat on for this one) even claim that on one such testing, that it went off at the same time as the Tunguska Siberian....a real oops moment.
Tesla allowed himself only a few close friends. Among them were the writers Robert Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, and Francis Marion Crawford. He was quite impractical in financial matters and an eccentric, driven by compulsions and a progressive germ phobia. But he had a way of intuitively sensing hidden scientific secrets and employing his inventive talent to prove his hypotheses. Tesla was a godsend to reporters who sought sensational copy but a problem to editors who were uncertain how seriously his futuristic prophecies should be regarded. Caustic criticism greeted his speculations concerning communication with other planets, his assertions that he could split the Earth like an apple, and his claim of having invented a death ray capable of destroying 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles (400 kilometres).
His papers are supposedly in a museum in Belgrade....but cultist devotees feel that the real "juicy stuff" has been deliberately hidden and suppressed!
Maxwell, smart?
Sorry, Don Adams passing is still on my mind. *grin*
This *is* fascinating. You can learn a lot on this website; sometimes it makes up for the time we waste!
I think I will forward the article to my close friend who is a surgeon.
Thanks for the post. Fascinating!
Thank you! I was racking my brain trying to remember who the other guy was that claimed credit for inventing calculus. You just saved me a brain cramp (or a Google search at the very least).
Hiram Maxim...Population control
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Hey...I'm with you, I was just explaining to a previous poster who was asking about this Tesla cult thing...
It becomes cult like when you have some devotees claiming that Tesla's energy weapon or wave propagation/ manipulation experiments may have caused the Tunguska blast!
Way cool...
Thank you for your posts. Raising Tesla's name always seems to call up a broad spectrum of reactions. That in itself is impressive and makes me all the more curious!
In certain darker quarters of our various governments, especially where black ops or black projects are in volved his name and accomplishments probably make folks sweat with fear as they perfect certain aspects of his ground breaking accomplishments!
I think that's why you see such a broad range of reactions at his name....this man was into "everything", including the possibility of interplanetary communication at a time when it was not fashionable to discuss these things.
Tesla was most certainly into things that certain folk don't want openly discussed....I'll wager there are some Freepers who frequent this board that know of some of these things...but hey. I'm just glad he invented AC transmission personally!
That's about my humor level!
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