Posted on 02/04/2008 10:39:55 PM PST by BlueSky194
Many inventors are eccentric....look at Bill Gates!
Electric-wet-dreams-ping
Kurzweil is a bright guy, but, he has still got a ways to go if he wants to surpass Tesla’s impact.
The book is much better. The end is completely different.
Great picture! I need a car like that!
I suspect the cops wouldn’t want to tangle with me much... neither would the neighbors.
I was just thinking “What’s that Tesla album...”
Nice
Bill Gates eccentric - yes.
Bill Gates inventor - uh, no.
Bad analogy. Sheisters, con-artists and pitchman were around long before Gates.
>> Electric-wet-dreams-ping <<
After which, you don’t have anything real, but you’ve likely been electrocuted in a very painful place.
Great post! My family and I are huge fans of Nikkola Tesla and are furious that “publik Skools” focus so much on Edison when it was Tesla and his inventions that made the most contribution to science. Heck, I didn’t even learn about Tesla until AFTER I completed publik skool edukashun!
I love reading about him and his works, especially his successful invention of a frequency device (one of its applications is as a weapon). When used as a weapon, the device matches the frequency of any object (inanimate or otherwise), and once the frequency of the object is matched the device will discharge, where it either destroys the object (matching the frequencies cancels them both) or kills the animate object by, again, cancelling its frequency. There are other applications to this invention, but I won’t go into it here.
He and his intellect are legendary and so relevant (to those who are paying attention)! Again, thanks for the great post!
What the heck is THAT!
bookmark
I dont know a thing about that picture....its on Google under Tesla
Tesla ping
Ping
Thanks for that!
From the article, “...the earth has a charge... of 4.5 megawatt hours...”
That’s enough to light ten thousand standard light bulbs for 4.5 hours, or about 0.005 to 0.01 times the output of an average coal, gas or nuclear fired power plant.
In Tesla’s time that probably seemed like a lot of power.
In addition to making one terrible business decision, Tesla lived about 25-50 years too early. Were he able to conduct his experiments, with the knowlege of Einstein, Bohr, Heisenburg and others in hand, the practical results would have been, in my opinion, orders of magnitide greater.
As it is, Tesla’s writings probably contain pointers to advanced phenomena, some of which might be exploitable for useful amounts of cheap energy, but finding and leveraging them is difficult because of Tesla’s pre-standard nomenclature, his secrecy, and his ability to rely on his memory, reducing the quantity of surviving notes.
Thanks for posting this. Tesla is one of the greatest “unappreciated” inventors ever, mainly because of Edison/ GE.
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