Posted on 07/06/2015 1:32:17 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
I still believe he figured out how to tap a resonance of the Earths magnetic field to generate electricity.
“I still believe he figured out how to tap a resonance of the Earths magnetic field to generate electricity.”
As I recall, he used resonance while trying to use the earth as a tuned capacitor to store electricity. That was the occasion when his huge coil burned out the power station of Colorado Springs.
Thanks for the ping. Tesla said he saw the design of the AC motor-generator as a moving picture in his mind.
Well, technically that wouldn’t be generating anything, just collecting it from a natural source, but maybe he accomplished it. It’s certainly something he seems to have been attempting with his “lightning towers”.
Please pull 46. Not meant as post but rather a private reply. Personal Info.
Thanks a bunch.
Read a book on Tesla. Let’s see IIRC. The day after he died in his hotel, naval intelligence locked up his papers and took a model of a gadget out of the hotel vault. He had turned it over to the hotel as collateral against his room bill. Tesla thought he could send an electrical wave out and stop enemy ships and planes from attacking the US. His papers have all been released, but the model has never been.
BFL
What did he mean?
He almost surely meant simplicity of use - of portability. He clearly understood technology advancing, ie, becoming more complex technically - he also realized that it would make using them simpler.
It’s far far far easier to make a call today from almost anywhere...a boat out at sea, in the middle of Africa, or in your home or office....than it was to make a call from your home back in his day....
That's not what he said. His statement was - "the instruments through which we shall be able to do [t]his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone".
I suspect he envisioned a system akin to his idea of power transmission to everybody with no moving parts, just a bunch of antennae put up to catch electricity from the air.
Your analysis is in a vacuum IMO....taking the literal statement but NOT putting it in context of everything else he nailed! Context matters. We’ll never know....but I am confident I got this....
“Predicting the future” is simply a matter of observing and understanding the present to the point that “predicting” what comes next is trivial.
There are few humans throughout history with this type of brain/mind construction capable of far exceeding “normal” capacity to observe and understand.
True and most of them are thought crazy while they’re alive.....by most folks.
“Crazy” is thinking things that “normal” people don’t think.
Those things could be brilliant, or delusional, but the “normal” thinker sometimes has trouble discerning between the two.
Thanks for the tip on Defiance. All caught up and enjoying Season 3. "Come with me if you want to live!" cracked me up.
Agreed. If I remember correctly he was communicating with Martian’s.
In the late 1940’s it used to take several hours to communicate with our relatives in the Midwest. One would tell the local operator the number wanted and they would tell you they would call you back when contact was established.
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