Well, guess who? .... Tesla!

[BlueEyedPersian]

Without this man our world would not be as it is today!


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Last part in the next post

[BlueEyedPersian]

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[778 neighbour of some guy]

Best read of the week:cool:

Ik dank u ;)

[jackovesk]

I Like it BlueEyedPersian...:thumb:

Every time we as 'Humans' acknowledge our 'True Hero's like Nikola Tesla, we are also taking back 'Ownership' of our rightful 'History' that was STOLEN from us...:yes4:

[spiritguide]

This shows that control was working well for a long time don't ya think. Tesla's trials and tribulations are the stories of many great inventors through the centuries that have gone unspoken because it was surpressed by the power hungry, greedy industrialist bankers and their puppets and this continues to this day on a worldwide basis. May the best man win is a fantasy because we know it doesn't work that way any longer. IMHO

[Kindred]

Great Piece BEP! Thank You! Tesla was one of the greatest people to live in modern times, not counting, of course, Gandhi, MLK, Lennon and anyone else you care to think of who made a Positive change for humanity.

However, I'd love to get the Link to this piece of art It would be helpful to be able to download the picture.. unless, of course, it's your own work, which I can understand.

In Unity, Peace and Love

edit; nevermind.. I found it! http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Enjoy!

[Shamz]

Great Post. I will add few things here

Nikolai Tesla has been my HERO ever since I first read about him. I read so many books/articles about him. Read his autobiography couple of times - its amazing piece of first hand information.
In that Tesla explained all that whats mentioned in the OP. Some people and even Tesla himself believed that he was of extra-terrestrial origin ( He gave a hint in his autobiography when he talked about his mother/father - he referred to them as earthly parents )

Like the OP mentioned - most of the current instruments that we use rely on technology that Tesla invented. His design for Hydro-electric motor/turbines which is used in Hydroelectric plant has not been modified/enhanced ever since -- Its just Perfect.

He demonstrated the use of Wireless electricity more than 100+ years ago - something which the modern scientists still fail to understand. Recently in some lab tests there have been little success but only for a small distance. Tesla famously used to light bulb several meters away from the light source.

Electric Car - Yes he made the first electric car in those days and it was GREAT - very efficient. Tesla motors which makes Electric cars here in USA are named after him ( I think read this some time back from the founders himself)

Free power to World -- Tesla figured out the way to send free electricity wirelessly to the entire world. JP Morgan partnered with him and had 51% share or more. Tesla built a huge facility on Long Island NY and built huge towers. But when JP Morgan came to know Tesla's plan about free energy to everyone - that electricity won' be metered -- He pulled all his money from the project. All of that Long Island facility was dismantled.

His inventions are being used in military even these days -- something called Death rays. He worked on the Philadelphia experiment and when he came to know that real people are involved in this experiment, he even sabotaged it - which delayed the actual experiment.

In his auto-biography he mentioned how he nearly drowned 2 times and how he was saved miraculously by visions appearing in his brain/eyes which saved him.
Some people say he used to get kinda of downloads to his brain. In his auto-biography he mentioned that one day he was reciting a poem in the park and suddenly went quite for sometime. After that immediately he designed the AC or electric motor.

I highly recommend reading his auto-biography to anyone who is interested in his work.

[Ilie Pandia]

Tesla is to be praised for all the tech mentioned above, but also for a lot of technology that did not make it to the public market.

I do not have proper references for this, but if I recall correctly, alternative current was not the only form of current that Tesla discovered. AC uses transverse waves, but there is another form of current that uses longitudinal waves. (look up "cold electricity" and "longitudinal waves")

Here is the page with how that looks like: http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/waves/wavemotion.html

I just want to throw this here as food for thought that the AC may not be Tesla's greatest discovery, but you'll have to do the digging :).

And I'd like to comment on Tesla's being crazy: perhaps he appeared to be crazy to those around him that did not understand what he was talking about! Anyone with such great mental capacity may appear crazy to us, but that is no proof that he was. This label is too easily applied to many "heroes that died alone, poor and in anonymity".

[meeradas]

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum

[Menkaure]

Tesla was a Genius and Edison was a common crook! My 2 cents!

[TheVoyager]

More about Nikola Tesla:
source: http://www.teslametamorphosis.com/p1_7_aboutNT.html

"...There are more that 150 000 documents in Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, but he didn't leave any description of his scientific method, which is comparable only with states experienced by yogis or with things known by saints. Now few people consider Tesla to be a philosopher or spiritual man. They do not think he was a man who inspired physics, technology and science. Finally, he founded a basis of a new millennium civilization with all his life and work. Though now his influence on the modern tendencies in science is minimal, his role heeds overestimation. Only the future will give a real explanation of Tesla as a phenomenon, because he went far ahead and he stands higher than the methods accepted nowadays.

A well-known Indian philosopher Vivekananda, one of the members of Ramakrishna mission, who was sent to the West to find out a possibility to join all existing religions, visited Tesla in his New York laboratory in 1906 and immediately sent a letter to his Indian colleague Alasingh. He rapturously described his meeting with Tesla:

"This man is different from other western people. He showed his experiments with electricity. His attitude to electricity looks like an attitude to a living being. He speaks with it and gives orders to it. I speak about the highest degree of spiritual person. It is no doubt that he has a spirituality of the highest level and can call all our gods. In his electrical multicolored lights, I saw all our gods: Vishnu, Shiva… and I felt the presence of Brahma himself"...

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

This is from WiReD magazine GEEKMOM column:


Interview With The Oatmeal and Tesla Science Center About New Tesla Museum
By Ariane Coffin Email Author (arianegeekmom@gmail.com) August 16, 2012 | 4:59 pm | Categories: Experiments and Science, Travel

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TheOatmealTeslaMuseum.jpeg
Logo for Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum, an IndieGoGo campaign to preserve Tesla’s lab, the Wardenclyffe, as a Tesla museum. (http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum)

It was only a month ago that we celebrated Nikola Tesla’s birthday and already he’s popping back into our news feeds. The famous webcomic The Oatmeal announced yesterday the launch of an IndieGoGo campaign to finance the purchase of Tesla’s lab, the Wardenclyffe, with the goal of turning it into a Tesla museum.

The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (TSC), originally named Friends of Science East, has been in business since 1996 as a non-profit organization trying to share Tesla’s legacy with the world. Comprised of eight board members who share this common passion for Tesla and his work, TSC is the entity which would be receiving the funds from the IndieGoGo campaign. Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, is contributing his Internet mogul wisdom and strong fan base to help launch the campaign’s popularity.

Full story: http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/08/tesla-museum-interview/

[update]
Have just realized that The Oatmeal webcomic is the entity behind OP presentation on Nicola Tesla :)

[DarMar]

Don't get me wrong Tesla is ONLY one human living idol i totally respect for his works and contributions.
Tho books and internet are last place to find any proper and valuable info about him and any patents actually like any of truth.
But i had to just add my few cents on this one to consider a bit:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

[bogeyman]

He also died in strange circumstances, even possibility murdered.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/13/nikola-tesla-was-murdered-by-otto-skorzeny/

[foreverfan]

Best thread ever. Love old Nic. RIP.

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[spiritguide]

If you see the light, thank TESLA !

[TargeT]

I'd donate to moving Eric Dollard to that property (tesla's old lab) to see if he could recreate any magic; he's the only guy I know of that's got a solid grasp on a lot of tesla's ideas

[Bill Ryan]

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Hi, All:

Here is a download link for Prodigal Genius -- a wonderful biography of Nikola Tesla that was written in 1944 by John J. O'Neill, who had known the great man personally.

http://projectavalon.net/Tesla/Prodigal_Genius_-_Biography_of_Nikola_Tesla.pdf

It was once very rare and hard to find, but was republished in 2008. A classic, and probably the most important biography of him.

It describes, among much else, his remarkable abilities, which he'd had ever since he was a child, of visualizing mechanical components so solidly and vividly that they were totally real to him... although no-one else could see what he could.

Later, he would create an entire 'mental machine' (like a motor or a generator) in his mind, leave it "running on a bench", and then come back from time to time to see if it was still going -- and if not, which parts had failed. That way, everything he ever built worked perfectly each time.

From Amazon:





This book tells the fascinating story of an amazing Serbian boy, Nikola Tesla, who was born in 1856, in the area we now call Bosnia. The author explains how Tesla's accomplishments brought forth our modern electrical power era and provide the foundation for the industrial system on which the entire world is built.

Tesla's mother could repeat, without error or omission, thousands of verses of the national poetry of her country. Tesla shared her retentive memory. He had another ability that he only revealed to his mother. If Tesla thought of an object, it would appear before him exhibiting the appearance of solidity and massiveness. He used this ability to visualize the solution to creating the first alternating current generator.

The first time Tesla's ability to visualize helped him in his quest to develop an alternating current generator, occurred when he suggested to a college professor that alternating current would solve some of the problems with a piece of electrical equipment that could be used either to generate electricity or if supplied energy could operate as a motor.

As his professor demonstrated the machine, the solution to the problem came to Tesla in such a vivid, illuminating flash of understanding that he knew his visualization contained the correct and practical answer. He saw both the equipment operating without the problems and doing so efficiently, however, he could not see the essential details of how this could be accomplished.

In February of 1882, Tesla took a walk in the city of Budapest with a former classmate. While a glorious sunset overspread the sky, Tesla engaged in one of his favorite hobbies - reciting poetry. The setting sun reminded Tesla of some of Goethe's beautiful lines:



The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil,
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring...
Suddenly, Tesla snapped into a rigid pose as if he had fallen into a trance. "Watch me!" he said, "Watch me reverse it!"

Tesla's friend said: "I see nothing. Are you ill?"

"You don't understand," said Tesla, "It's my alternating-current motor I'm talking about. Can't you see it right here in front of me, running almost silently? It's the rotating magnetic field that does it. See how the magnetic field rotates and drags the armature around with it? Isn't it beautiful? I have solved the problem..."

[TargeT]

I cannot think of a better topic for people to focus energy on, resurrecting this man's work & spreading his ideas is actually a very easy thing to do as he himself did most the "hard work" (via his amazing abilities as described above)

Tesla's technology is already (for the most part) functional -- working to bring it back is a very approachable thing in my mind; much like resurrecting LFTR (liquid fluoride thorium reactor) that was also a working item (ran for over 10 years! producing safe clean heat (which can be converted to power of course).

anyone who feels they need a direction for their energy could do much worse than focusing on those two topics; they are tangible and have a much higher probability of influence than most topics discussed on this forum.


Modern day understanding of this man's work is nearly impossible to find, as I mentioned Eric Dollard is one person who has a good grasp, Mr Dollard's speeches and papers have taught me how little I personally know about electricity & how little is known by modern day "electrical engineers", for anyone even remotely interested in Tesla's this man's contributions should not be missed ( here's a good start: http://www.borderlands.com/dollardandtesla.htm , Google will find you more )

[Aurelius]

Patrick Flanagan claimed (http://pesn.com/2012/07/10/9602131_Did_Tesla_Reincarnate_as_Patrick_Flanagan/) to be the re-incarnation of Nikola Tesla recently ...

[Jean-Luc]

For anyone interested and who can drop in on Sept 21 in Ninove, Belgium, I've got the feeling this conference day will be very interesting.


In this lecture and day event at the Kf Center, Prof. Dr. Ing. Konstantin Meyl will examine and explain the differences and similarities between the Keshe Technology and Tesla Technology.

Prof. Dr.-Ing Konstantin Meyl teaches the subjects power electronics and alternative energy technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen. Being a 15-year-old pupil he already carried out the first measurements on eddy current brakes. His dissertation at the Technical University of Munich (1979), as well as his doctoral theses at the University of Stuttgart (1984) were dedicated to the three-dimensional calculation of eddy current.

As development leader and licenser of the company Bauknecht AG (ATB) he relocated to the Black Forest to the Technologie Zentrum ("technology center") of St. Georgen where he has conducted a transfer center of the Steinbeis Stiftung (?Steinbeis foundation)? for economic promotion of Baden-Württemberg since 1988 until March, 2003.

Since April 2003 the 1th transfer center for scalar waves is being perpetuated without interruption with the same employees in the identic spaces of the technology center, but without the Steinbeis foundation.

After he had adopted a professorship (1986) in the nearest academy, Prof. Meyl could turn again to the research of electromagnetic field eddies. The discovery of the potential vortex which occurred at the desk and not in the lab in the night of the 1.1.1990 brought the desired success. The books with the title ?Potentialwirbel? volume 1 (1990) and volume 2 (1992) have been awarded in 1994 with the technology price of the German society of EMV technology. The award handover took place in Munich in the course of the exhibition Electronica. The award prooves the importance of the theory for the sector of the EMC.

More info on Prof. Meyl: www.meyl.eu
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Konstantin_Meyl


Info & registration : http://www.keshefoundation.org/en/events?view=event&id=27

I will attend.

[lorien]

I donated $333 for the Tesla museum! Everyone should do it. Now is the time to bring attention to the works of Tesla!

[Hughe]

One great man or god-like being can't change the world at fundamental level.
I'm thankful for Nikola Tesla but he failed to fulfill his true destiny IMHO.

Why he did not share his knowledge as good will for humanity? He was fell into rubbish, absurd patent scam business. Maybe selfishness, egocentric nature is biggest obstacle humanity needs to overcome at collective level for the big jump. I mean it. I have so many unanswered questions about him.

Why he would not move to Europe for carrying on his vision when he got trapped, locked down by corrupted, money driven world, United States of America?

He possessed such super intelligence during his time. What if he trained or taught handful of brilliant scientists/engineers from different countries, made them establish wireless power transmission, free energy technologies he perfected at the age of 40s? Tesla knew that humanity will be free from physical limitation when the human can harness clean/unlimited energy in nature. Wasn't it the true goal he embraced?

Why is that so important of being recognized as "I'm the one of something"?
This mentality is major drawback why humanity is struggling from advancement. In any field people are busy to win the pathetic game. Arts, sciences, sports, business. Maybe this is brilliant mind control work done by non-human entities which only look at Earthlings as usable resources over thousands years.

[Ilie Pandia]

Hello Hughe,

Tesla did not have internet, nor did he have any kind of mass distribution on information.

I really doubt he was into patents much. He may have been forced to ask for patents so that he could get some funding for his projects.

It is not his fault that the world did not embrace him for what he was. He was forced to work with what he had... and that was capitalism and money. He was not a business man, but rather an inventor. I can easily imagine him not knowing how much raw materials costs :). His job was innovation and creation, not accounting.

I suspect that even today, other scientist feel just as trapped in the system. They have in them inventions begging to get out into the world, to make this a better place, but they need to get the money! And so they sign they life away...

IMO, it's not the scientist's fault, but rather or own fault for now providing a better context for inventors to work in. We as a society, by valuing money and profit above all else, make it impossible for someone like Tesla to work in the open, and have all the resources he requires freely available.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Another piece on Tesla from WiReD magazine:


Tesla’s Revenge: Filmmakers Kickstart Electrifying Docudrama About Cult Genius
Inspired by maverick genius Nikola Tesla, Wil Cashen invented an electric pickup truck. Now the Los Angeles-based engineer and entrepreneur wants to pay homage to his role model by making a docudrama about the eccentric Serbian-American inventor.

Cashen’s film project Electricity: The Story and Life of Nikola Tesla, which is currently up for funding through Kickstarter, would help educate mainstream audiences about the brilliant scientist whose system for distributing free wireless electricity got squashed by established business interests led by Thomas Edison.

Writer Carol Bourgeois, who began researching Tesla 12 years ago and finally completed her final script early this year, told Wired by phone that when she interviewed people on the streets of Los Angeles, nine out of 10 drew a blank at the mention of the Tesla name.

“It’s time for him to shine,” she said, citing several incidents in which the obsessive-compulsive Tesla got cheated out of profits and patents. “This is a dude that got screwed and didn’t get a penny for any of his patents. That’s where our passion comes in.”

The movie will feature dramatic re-enactments, interviews, vintage film sequences and archival photographs filmed in slow-panning “Ken Burns style,” according to project rep Zach Taiji. Kickstarter funders can snag cool swag including Nikola Tesla action figures.
(...)

Full story: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/tesla-docudrama/