Nikola Tesla has always fascinated me and this site gives a good view of the man and his inventions. It also has some other neat 'futures' we NOT did get.
Like flying cars! Darnit! I want my flying car!
Do you, too?
Nikola Tesla has always fascinated me and this site gives a good view of the man and his inventions. It also has some other neat 'futures' we NOT did get.
Like flying cars! Darnit! I want my flying car!
Do you, too?
>>Like flying cars! Darnit! I want my flying car!
>>Do you, too?
No. Too many people are too stupid to drive on the ground. I don't want 'em in the air at all...
Clearly Tesla was both genius and nutjob but that is a common trait among inventors.
"It's the year 2000. But, where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?"
Same diff.
If it wasn't for photoshopped Tesla discharges, the ZOTs here would be much less spectacular....we owe him so much.
Tesla was a genius, with out his ideas we would not have radio,tv,computers ect... His only downfall was teaming up with Westinghouse. That killed Tesla's ideas of free energy. I have heard that his notebooks have been recovered and are now classified top secert by the US goverment. There has been lots of people trying to recreate his experiments though.
Tesla was a genius, 'nuff said. The government screwed him over big time back then. Some of his inventions are still in use today, if I'm not mistaken.
That was a good read.
I am always amazed by those who dream of ways to use science theory in practical ways (applied science).
Good thing Tesla won the "war of currents."
Edison went on to carry out a campaign to discourage the use of alternating current. Edison personally presided over several executions of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs, to demonstrate to the press that his system of direct current was safer than that of alternating current. Edison's series of animal executions peaked with the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant.
Edison opposed capital punishment, but his desire to disparage the superior system of alternating current ironically led to the invention of one of the world's most recognizable killing devices. Low frequency (50 - 60 Hz) AC currents are actually more dangerous than similar levels of DC current since the alternating fluctuations can cause the heart to lose coordination, inducing ventricular fibrillation, which then rapidly leads to death. Eventually, the advantages of AC power transmission outweighed the disadvantages, and it was eventually adopted as the standard.
As pointed out in the articles, Edison was a great proponent of DC power, and he and Henry Ford were great buddies. Therefore, as I understand it, Ford had the huge Rouge plant run by DC. I don't know how long this system lasted, but in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn I saw one of the original generators, a huge machine with two reciprocating power cylinders, one for steam and one for internal combustion of waste gas from a blast furnace or something similar, and both driving a common shaft turning the DC generator. I think about four of these powered the entire Rouge plant. Surely that's about as odd as anything Tesla invented.
