[Discussion] Nikola Tesla - The Genius That Lit The World | The Greatest Mind Of All Time

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Tesla was an idealist who ultimately failed to understand two very important things.

First, when he was wrong.

Tesla began making a number of wild and unsupported claims as to his developments as funding for his experiments began to dry up.

Which leads us to Two; he didn't understand society.

While Tesla made a number of interesting things - very few of them had any real use and involved far too much effort for them to be economically viable. He simply did not understand that economics involves the exchange of product/services for mutual benefit - and that many of his developments, while impressive, were of minimal value with a minimal application.
I completely disagree but your entitled to that opinion.
 

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You go from talking about the basics of the origins of alternating current, which is legitimate (to a degree) to crediting him with things that he never really developed.

Robotics? That's merely a section rambling statement. He didn't truly dabble in robotics.

You also include the phrase "life force" in what he contributed to imagery technologies.

Further, Tesla did not develop the laser. The closest thing he developed to a laser is his rumored "death ray" device that he flamboyantly claimed could wipe out entire armies. He was among one of the first to suggest the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction by making a weapon so powerful that it made the prospect of war with another nation moot.

Of course - no one can actually prove he made such a device and theories abound as to what it may have been and whether or not it ever existed (or if it would even work).

Further, he did not create the electric motor. He created the AC induction motor (or was one of the first to document it, many engineering advancements occur in parallel and in isolation) which had limited applications until the development of solid state devices where "brushless" motors could be better realized.

The problem is that induction motors operate off of alternating current and are heavily influenced by the properties of that alternating current (as determined by the design parameters of the motor). AC induction motors were very limited in the speeds and powers they could produce.

At least until the advent of solid state switching devices where high frequency pulses could be delivered and allow for very small, high power motors with a very wide range of speeds.

The context of your entire post is that "if only we'd have listened to Tesla, we'd have all of this stuff a hundred years ago!" which is just not true.

Even Tesla considered 'radio' a trifling thing that he never really bothered to develop. Further, the difference between Tesla's 'Radio' and Marconi's radio are quite different. Tesla did not really make use of a detector circuit to detect 'information' in a signal. IE - Tesla never really developed the circuity to transmit a voice through a radio - IE - radio modulation and demodulation.

The list could go on.

While Tesla truly was a visionary mind and a very interesting fellow - to argue that he had created things he really did not is just ignorant hero worship.
Ofc he didnt make all that but this post was more along the lines of what his discovery of AC contributed to. No need to get offensive as we all appreciate the man. :/
 

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Firstly this thread was not a hero worship.
Secondly this was just a fragment of his inventions/ideas and they're all factuall.
Now the fact of your indoctrination is a whole another pair of shoes.
 
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