Posted on 07/11/2015 9:08:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
He was an outside the box thinker which naturally leads to lots of dead ends but plenty of realities come about as a by product.
Other than the author’s anti-capitalist screed, sprinkled throughout (and Tesla was a happy capitalist, at the peak of his career—with backing by very big money (Edison’s backers just happened to be bigger))...very interesting.
Number 6 - electric motors.
This is all we have from magnetism? All the great gains with the other technologies and very little advancements with the use and applications of magnetism. It makes me wonder why is that.
Tesla ping.
There’s a series called American Genius. They had an episode on Tesla Edison. They show Edison giving Tesla an “impossible” task to go repair a motor of one of Edison’s clients. He comes back the next day with problem solved. Good stuff in there of his thoughts on motors in college in Europe.
Is it true that Tesla was a space alien?
When Tesla first arrived in NY in the late 1880s, he found it hard to find work and was forced to take a series of brutal day-labor jobs, like ditch-digging (a typical experience for a European immigrant at the time).
Supposedly, one day he was laboring near the large Edison DC plant when Edison - fed up with his generators always breaking down under heavy loads - offered a large sum of money to anyone who could solve the problem.
Tesla took up his offer, and redesigned the generator to make a more natural flow for the electrons - a simple but brilliant solution that, besides increasing the generator’s power, showed his great understanding of the subject. But when he went to collect, Edison brushed him off with a line like “Oh Tesla, you just don’t understand our American sense of humor”.
That was the start of a life-long feud.
depicted in American Gnius TV series.
Thanx
Why BS?
More Tesla: bio, Tesla coil music, Tesla vs Edison rap battle, infographic from The Oatmeal http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2014/07/its-nikola-teslas-birthday-bio-tesla.html
Not BS if you follow the original field equations put forth by the Scottish mathematician James Clerk Maxwell in 1859.
Everything we know about the entire electromagnetic spectrum comes from just four of those equations ... but here’s the really interesting part: Oliver Heavyside (a self-taught momma’s boy) didn’t like Maxwell’s field equations (abominations) and so transformed four of them into vector equations and viola here we are - the other 196 field equations were not transformed - Heavyside threw them out.
“The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.” - Albert Einstein (inspired by Maxwell). {He is referring to the four transformed by Heavyside}
Tesla was also heavily inspired by Maxwell. Today Maxwell is largely ignored much as Tesla has been. Perhaps people will look again at Tesla’s mentor.
Free energy is just one possibility postulated by Maxwell; another was the possibility of stepping from one place to any other no matter the distance; still another the possibility of instantaneous communication across any distance (in both cases light years of distance).
The universe is filled with energy (Gamma, X-ray, etc.), it is literally everywhere, so there exists the possibility of capturing it - much as solar energy is captured.
Everything Tesla: http://teslasociety.com/biography.htm
Everything Maxwell: http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/who_was_maxwell-.html
thank you
Apparently an Italian produced a working a AC motor two years before Tesla. DC motors existed long before so he didn’t invent the electric motor at all.
““Limitless Free Energy” Bullshit.”
Why do you say “bullshit”? Isn’t the sun limitless free energy?
I saw on “The Men Who Built America” that he gave up his patents up to keep George Westinghouse from going belly up.
I don’t know how true that is but it does seem consistent with what you are saying as well.
Regardless of his eccentricities he was brilliant, that is for sure.
Also did a lot of work in my hometown, Colorado Springs, so we consider him a local.
This article is excellent. Sure FREEPERS will quibble with some details but the list itself is staggering, even if it is really only 9 items.
bfl
It is neither limitless nor is it free. There are limits on how much you can acquire in a given period, it's not always available, and there are costs associated with it's collection and storage, just as there are with oil.
Didn’t he invent a machine that cloned people in Colorado Springs?
(Lame reference to the movie The Prestige.)
He powered a grow room with AC.
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