You beat me to it!! One of my favorite bands!!
Posted on 01/13/2005 8:04:25 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
Yes. And you should read the FOIA PDF I linked to.
One of the most interesting string of threads I've seen on FR. I think the author of the article would prefer to see humanity spin off into some utopian, Godless pursuit of perfection. And speed it up a little, hear. BTW, I could feel all of you getting ready to post what I was thinking. Genetics, you know...... Wha, wha was that?
Thanks! It took us an entire summer to build it.
Any other Tesla experiments you'd care to share about publically or privately?
That was just about the sum total of my Tesla stuff. I lost interest soon after. LOL!
I liked those books. :-)
Really? It wanders off into looney-left land by the end.
That said, Tesla was really the great inventor of the 19th and 20th century: all those inventions, radio, radar, AC current, listed were done essentially solo.
Edison, OTOH, really had only one great invention to his personal credit (ironically one almost never mentioned, and by far his most influential): the industrial research laboratory, and from his, the very first, came the light bulb, the phonograph, . . .
There's a beautiful bronze of Tesla (in heroic scale) on the American side at Niagara Falls. The few times I've ever been, me and my EE pop have been the only two who seemed to know who he was.
Everytime I think of Tesla, I think of a jealous Edison electrocuting elephants (to prove the dangers of AC). LOL
The article started out as a look at one scientist's contribution, and then you could almost hear the plane go into a dive. When the author started getting into the "art science" I felt the jump from Tesla to today and thought "Here we go" and it became a rant about how the socialist state ideal of the state paying for everything would bring us to a Tesla-dream of scientists busily making great discoveries for all the world! Of course the article conveniently sidesteps the points you make and the history of private endeavor.
Don't give them ideas! Telsa never married saying marriage wasn’t good for inventors, enjoyed poetry and the opera, would not share a table alone with a woman, was a fastidious dresser, wore new gloves weekly and a new tie daily, and maintained 142 lbs. his whole life. This info from a good biography at www.frank.germano.com/nikolatesla.htm
Great, when they get bored with Log Cabin Lincoln we're going to have the Telsa Engineers Society.
The boiler/hammer story is much closer to the truth..
Otis (?) McCoy, a railroad engineer, invented an oiling mechanism for Steam Engines...
As it was the best type of system for automatic oiling of crucial parts in a Steam Engine's drive mechanism, it became known as the "Real McCoy"...
He is attributed to have been called to diagnose a problem with a Locomotive, and having arrived and inspected, hit a part of the mechanism with a hammer and left..
The rest of the story follows the formula..
Ahhhh. Thanks.
Interesting bit of history.
You beat me to it!! One of my favorite bands!!
Nice one!
Yes, Tesla made a lot of money, initially, with his patents for AC motors, generators, etc..
What is not often noted is that Westinghouse eventually complained to Tesla that royalty payments were going to "ruin" the business..
Tesla magnanimously (stupidly) surrendered his rights to royalty payments.. just signed them over to Westinghouse.. as well as $MILLIONS$ that was already owed him..
Possibly the biggest rip-off in history..
That is why, in later years, Tesla had to go begging to J.P. Morgan for funding..
The loss of royalties from Westinghouse, and Tesla's own spendthrift habits.. when he had money, he spent it.. lavishly.. on himself, on his experiments and on his freinds.. with no thought or concern for tomorrow..
J.P. Morgan financed Tesla because he thought Tesla would make him Rich(er)...
Morgan cut funding as soon as he found out Tesla's intention was to produce "free" energy for the world..
No profit, no funding..
Your own post says he willingly gave them over. It wasn't a ripoff; he was just stupid.
ping for tomorow
Definately a man before his time.
Over 2,000 people attended his funeral in Manhattan, the small beginning of his big future.
To die penniless is actually what I'm planning on also, via life annuities and maybe a reverse mortgage. I don't know about the 2,000 people showing up though. But at least some will say I died penniless!
What he didn't forsee, sadly, was Mohammadens seeking to destroy it all.
Evil capitalist.
Morgan cut funding as soon as he found out Tesla's intention was to produce "free" energy for the world.. No profit, no funding..
Morgan cut off funding when he found out his money was gone and there was nothing to show for it. How much of your money do you invest expecting nothing in return?
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