Tesla

[sr71blackbird]

How many of you have heard of Nikola Tesla? He has touched every part of your lives and his memory was obscured and rarely is he talked about as anything but a crackpot, yet he was a super genius and could have provided all of mankind with limitless free power.


http://www.mosafilm.de/CF/heftbesprechung/www/032/tesla/tesla-1-v.jpg

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There is a space within the Earths atmosphere, a layer, where charged particles lie, and his vision was to use these towers to nudge this atmospheric sheath and charge these particles with with power and this power would have circled the earth and we all could have tapped off it anytime we wanted, wirelessly and for free. But because the funding people saw no benefit to the plan, and no meters to spin and thus generate a profit, they abandoned funding. This was almost 100 years ago! Nikola Tesla had mankinds interest at heart and nothing more.

http://www.accionchilena.cl/images/nikola.jpg

[IamFogHat]

I give you The Prestige.
http://www.solarnavigator.net/music/music_images/David_Bowie_as_Nikola_Tesla2.jpg
One of the best fictional depictions of a real life person ever.

[jab]

I give you The Prestige.
http://www.solarnavigator.net/music/music_images/David_Bowie_as_Nikola_Tesla2.jpg
One of the best fictional depictions of a real life person ever.

great performance. bowie as warhol also ruled in basquiat. how many of you have heard of andy warhol?

[RhinoinMN]

Little Suzie's on the up!

[SatCam]

Wasnt he the dude who also talked about walking heaven's trail?

[SatCam]

http://www.mosafilm.de/CF/heftbesprechung/www/032/tesla/tesla-1-v.jpg


And the sign said wavy-haired freaky people need not apply current to a circuit

[FezsAssistant]

I want to read about him.

I shall read about him.

[instrument]

someone must've just seen the prestige.

[sr71blackbird]

Just bought it on eBay. Thanks. The man had vision. From what I see though, I think he was a bit of a savant too. He had similar afflictions as others I have heard about. His imagination was such that what he could think about he could visualize completely.

[tanless1]

just imagine if he'd been successful- none of us would be able to maintain a respectable haircut- doors would have to be larger to cope w/ longer hair, of course. and carpets ? forget about it.

[Hottub]

Fucking modern day cowboy, he was.

[biozombie]

"Thomas Edison ripped me off, hoo hoo"
-Nikola Tesla

[IMSlacker]

Fucking modern day cowboy, he was.

He would have been nothing without Edison's Medicine.

[Hottub]

He would have been nothing without Edison's Medicine.

:thumbup:

[boosterp]

He would have been nothing without Edison's Medicine.

:laugh:

[burrben]

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[TripleSkeet]

Even back then if you came up with a way to give people energy for free you were stopped.

[hedges]

When Tesla died, the FBI raided his house and laboratory and took all of his scientific paperwork.

[TripleSkeet]

I just watched that video and it was awesome.

Charged particle beam weapon??? This mothafucka invented the Death Star!

[sr71blackbird]

Seriously, there is a lesson here. His dream was twarted by the greed of his financiers who saw that his goal would not have benefitted them financially, even though their lives would have been made easier and the lives of everyone else in the world. JP Morgan cut his funding and without that, he could not continue his plan. Maybe JP wondered how he would be paid back, and maybe that is a legitimate factor in lending anyone money, but by tht point he had proven himself as I viable inventor. His flaw was that he did not have a great business sence, but his mental abilities and inventiveness and imagination. Were was propelled him. I think I may be right about him being a functional savant.

[A.J.]

I walked along Nikola Tesla Street when I was in Zagreb, Croatia.

[ANC]

http://hardrockhideout.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/tesla1986.jpg

Oops, wrong Tesla :unsure:

[Furtherman]

Tesla was a fascinating character. He was just in the news again recently, as his Long Island laboratory is up for sale. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html?_r=2&ref=science) Unfortunately, they plan on leveling the facility. Telsa was working on wireless electricity when his bankers backed out after Marconi invented radio.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/04/science/28015708.JPG

[sr71blackbird]

He was intending to use that tower to inject electric into that atmospheric layer with the particles I was talking about earlier. That layer surrounds the Earth and he wanted a tappable current in that layer, without wires. This was before airplanes were invented! It would have circled the globe.

[BinaryTaoist]

Tesla is the man, responsible for giving us:

Alternating current (opposed to Edisons direct current), which allowed for the transmission of power over larger distances.

Radio - Although this credit often goes to Marconi... Marconi used a Tesla oscillator in order to make the transmissions...

Remote control

He has a shitload of patents for generating energy utilizing geothermal heat and water...

His theories were taken on by others to develop radar...

The more you study Tesla, the more Edison looks like a dick.

Tesla was certain that the ability to transmit power/energy wirelessly was possible and that his tower in Long Island was meant to do just that.

[Snoogans]

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[Furtherman]

Google's home page today has a nice nod to Tesla.

[sr71blackbird]

I saw that! I work at the electric company and I update electric maps. They have us use a default "bogus" date of 2 11 1847, which is Thomas Edisons birthday whenever we update a feature that existed before our current GIS system. I sent an email to the manager with a fake complaint that I feel the date should be 7 10 instead, in honor of Tesla. He thought it was funny, but there is nothing that could be done. At least I tried to honor him in my own way.

[TooLowBrow]

someone must've just seen the prestige.

reading this thread is freaking me out cause i just watched it last night

[sr71blackbird]

I hoped that the Prestige would be more about it than it was.

[SatCam]

I saw that! I work at the electric company and I update electric maps. They have us use a default "bogus" date of 2 11 1847, which is Thomas Edisons birthday whenever we update a feature that existed before our current GIS system. I sent an email to the manager with a fake complaint that I feel the date should be 7 10 instead, in honor of Tesla. He thought it was funny, but there is nothing that could be done. At least I tried to honor him in my own way.

At least the memory of Tesla will live on in the hearts of Electric Cartographers everywhere

[west milly Tom]

He discovered the property of electromagnetisim, huge breakthrough in the history of mankind. Now, scientists are able to manipulate electromagnetic properties of different elements throug the use of nano-conductors which are super strong. They have literally made an invisibility cloak at the university of So Cal. Super scientifically cool.

[sr71blackbird]

He should be honored in a more dignified way. Only a small amount of people know him, and its a shame the way he died and the state he was in. He is responsible for the comforts we now enjoy, the safety we have, the effectiveness of our machines and military and TV and radio and all that. Edison is remembered by most people as bringing us into the age of light, but if Edison had he way and we followed it at that time, we would be no where near as advanced as we are now. So instead, we went Teslas way and the benefits started coming in and he was forgotten and Edison got the credit. Instead of being broken and bitter though, Tesla continued working on his own and developed all kinds of cool shit. When he died pennyless and alone, his lab was raided by the government and his notes confiscated. They in turn probably employed their own scientists to continue on with whatever projects they felt would have the best military use. I just feel bad he is an unsung hero.

[Recyclerz]

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Well, I guess you can't hold that video against Tesla himself.

I believe Tesla is seen as the bigger deal in Europe (and maybe in other parts of the world) than the US, where a combination of culture, lazy media, corporate utility names and old textbooks still give Edison alpha dog status. Maybe things will change if that electric car company named after Tesla is successful.


I give you The Prestige.

Maybe that explains the mystery of GVAC's missing hat.

[Furtherman]

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[KC2OSO]

One of my heroes and I've built a few tesla coils and jacob's ladders over the years.
The voltages on these things get pretty high.

A much misunderstood guy but just amazing. Another genius from that era who got squashed by big business. Philo Farnsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth) was another of those guys as was Allen B. DuMont (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_B._DuMont). Farnsworth was just destroyed by Sarnoff imo.

[booster11373]

One of my heroes and I've built a few tesla coils and jacob's ladders over the years.
The voltages on these things get pretty high.

A much misunderstood guy but just amazing. Another genius from that era who got squashed by big business. Philo Farnsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth) was another of those guys as was Allen B. DuMont (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_B._DuMont). Farnsworth was just destroyed by Sarnoff imo.

Sarnoff also killed Armstrong in a sense

[KC2OSO]

Sarnoff also killed Armstrong in a sense
Oh totally. Sarnoff supposedly stole things from Armstrong to the point that he had to leave NY and head for NJ. The Armstrong tower up by Alpine is pretty amazing to see if you go in for that stuff.

[Barnaby Jones]

He was the electric Jesus!

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[KnoxHarrington]

He should be honored in a more dignified way. Only a small amount of people know him, and its a shame the way he died and the state he was in. He is responsible for the comforts we now enjoy, the safety we have, the effectiveness of our machines and military and TV and radio and all that. Edison is remembered by most people as bringing us into the age of light, but if Edison had he way and we followed it at that time, we would be no where near as advanced as we are now. So instead, we went Teslas way and the benefits started coming in and he was forgotten and Edison got the credit. Instead of being broken and bitter though, Tesla continued working on his own and developed all kinds of cool shit. When he died pennyless and alone, his lab was raided by the government and his notes confiscated. They in turn probably employed their own scientists to continue on with whatever projects they felt would have the best military use. I just feel bad he is an unsung hero.

Yeah, DC electrical service was really shitty, but Edison fought like hell to keep the vastly superior AC from being adopted.

In neighborhoods that Edison did wire for DC, if you walked around the streets after a rainstorm, you could get the hell shocked out of you. Yet Edison spread total bullshit about how dangerous AC was, including distributing a film of the electrocution of an elephant.

Edison is one of the biggest scumbags in American history, yet he's still considered a hero. Go figure.

[KC2OSO]

Yeah, DC electrical service was really shitty, but Edison fought like hell to keep the vastly superior AC from being adopted.

In neighborhoods that Edison did wire for DC, if you walked around the streets after a rainstorm, you could get the hell shocked out of you. Yet Edison spread total bullshit about how dangerous AC was, including distributing a film of the electrocution of an elephant.

Edison is one of the biggest scumbags in American history, yet he's still considered a hero. Go figure.

Thomas Edison was not a scumbag. He had it wrong. DC sucks. I've been shocked by it and it is no fun. I prefer being shocked by AC.

I have several Edison machines playing around my house at least 50 years after they were supposed to be gone. They work fine. Better than you Asian car easily.

Talk about scumbags and burglars...
SARNOFF was one of the biggest scumbags in American history. Sure Edison, Tesla, and all the others tried to capitalize...

Sarnoff didn't think, invent, own, or invent, any of this.

PLEASE NAME A DAVID SARNOFF INVENTION. You can't.

There aren't any.



Get to the Sarnoff Library on Route one in Princeton. (http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/)

SARNOFF STOLE EVERYTHING
Yes, this is how things really happened.

QUOTE:
NBC
Sarnoff was also involved in the strategic RCA-NBC partnership. Sarnoff notoriously stole ideas from competitors and used the legal capabilities of his giant corporation to protect his maneuvers in court.
UNQUOTE

from:

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/David_Sarnoff

speaking of scumbags and those who fed off the work of others...this pretty much says it.

Legacy
http://www.digitalworld.fr/upload/image/agrandissement/1984_Orwell.jpg

SEX!

[hanso]

I heard that he said aliens had told him about most or all the stuff he came out with.

[PapaBear]

I heard that he said aliens had told him about most or all the stuff he came out with.
Aliens told you that.