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

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• Nikola Tesla - Lord Of The Lightning •

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More than 70 years have passed since his death; now his accomplishments are finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate.

Sadly most world population is wondering was he for real? A looney? A part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?

This Croatian science prodigy was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day — namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius. He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other rulers of the industry. Upon Tesla’s death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, some of which has been released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act.
Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla’s integrity — he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.
But, let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world. For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of our planet in ways that no man ever has.

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Let's take a look at his top inventions:


• Alternating Current

This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago. A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed. The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator). Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general “dangers” of electric current to instill fear in Tesla’s alternative: Alternating Current. As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations. Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla’s attempt to offer safety at a lower cost. Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light. This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla’s inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.


• Light

Of course he didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed. Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. At the World’s Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs. However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial. The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter. All that is needed on the other end is the receiver — much like a radio.


• X-rays

Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role. X-rays, like so many of Tesla’s contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.


• Radio

Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day. However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi. Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association. In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi’s financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.


• Remote Control

This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No. 613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898. Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat’s propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.


• Electric Motor

Tesla’s invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name. While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla’s invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil. However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wrist - watches and compressors.


• Robotics

Tesla’s overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses. He stated: “I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli.” Thus, the concept of the robot was born. However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations — namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce. His extraordinary mind was filled with visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems.


• Laser

Tesla’s invention of the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man. Lasers have transformed surgical applications in an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much of our current digital media. However, with this leap in innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction. From Reagan’s “Star Wars” laser defense system to today’s Orwellian “non-lethal” weapons’ arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy “death rays,” there is great potential for development in both directions.


• Wireless Communication & Limitless Free Energy

These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite — what good is energy if it can’t be metered and controlled? Free? Never. J.P. Morgan backed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text. This represented the world’s first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them. Essentially, the 0’s and 1’s of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed. Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge. But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?

Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased. A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer. If you feel that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion, instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed institutions of higher education, join the world’s call to tell power brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and learn about what our universe really has to offer.
 

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Without a doubt one of the greatest engineers in all of history. Engineers seem to hardly receive any attention or credit compared to Physicists - something Ive always found very odd considering that what they do tends to be some orders of magnitude more useful than the mathematical masturbation that counts for physics these days (and I say that as a physicist by education myself).
 

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Oh, they wanted to get rich off his inventions, but he was too invested in his inventions, that it was losing them money. Not only that, they were selfish and had an ego, so they disown him and took everything he had.

Damn, they were some evil bastards.
 
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Nope all African Radio waves all that good jazz. The thing is when you a religious foreigner on a quest for knowledge, you demonize the intelligence and teach it to your children ironically. Learn yourself
 

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Why did I know it was you from the title? Lol

Anyways, it was a good read and Tesla is indeed one of the best engineer's this planet has ever had. I'd like to see evem more research of his.
 

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Tesla was a great man of Serbian descent and does not need you to suck his ****.

Stop worshiping and build one of his Tesla Coils, or something. Someone as versed in electronics as yourself should have no trouble doing so.

I've built one. It's a rather basic high-voltage project since you're basically using an avalanche-switched air core transformer with turns ratios in the 1:1000 ratio between primary and secondary windings.

Since these devices easily have enough power to kill you, it's no surprise that it took some time for people to develop the florescent bulb. See, there are several problems with how Tesla illuminated fluorescent bulbs. The high energy electrons generated as a product of the high voltage were capable of exciting electrons in the orbit of neon gasses into a higher state before those electrons dropped to a lower state (or shell) and emitted a photon in return. This was done through sheer electrostatic potential - which, while very interesting and worthy of note and research - this is also not exactly what you want in your home.

Fluorescent bulbs as we understand them work on a catalyst in the Cathode and Anode to allow a lower voltage, provided by an inductive unit in the "ballast" (which is still a higher voltage than what is communicated through the line), to excite a gas and pass current to a phosphorous coating (which is actually what triggers the lower-voltage release of light).

While a tesla coil can generate enough voltage on its own to illuminate a 'dead' fluorescent bulb, it does so by generating ionizing voltages that make the picture tube of a TV look like nine volt battery next to a wall outlet. A Tesla coil can easily produce 20 kilovolts or greater. Some of the "old school" variety operating off of spark gaps could reach outputs of over a hundred kilovolts (and some still are designed to work at such high voltages).

It is also the case that Tesla's idea for the transmission of energy would simply not work all that well. It may have been practical for lighting up a town with a massive ass tesla coil in place of the water tower (it would also vaporize flocks of birds and careless airplane pilots) - but it would not have made for a very good transmitter of enough power to heat/cool our homes, cook our food, and operate our power tools.

For that, we have power lines that are much more efficient at transmitting power where it is needed.

But, don't let the resident electronics expert confound wonder with facts.

Tesla was indeed a great man and one who any aspiring electrical-anything should study. But it is an insult to his achievements and personality to treat him as though he were a martyr.
 

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Tesla was a great man of Serbian descent and does not need you to suck his ****.

Stop worshiping and build one of his Tesla Coils, or something. Someone as versed in electronics as yourself should have no trouble doing so.

I've built one. It's a rather basic high-voltage project since you're basically using an avalanche-switched air core transformer with turns ratios in the 1:1000 ratio between primary and secondary windings.

Since these devices easily have enough power to kill you, it's no surprise that it took some time for people to develop the florescent bulb. See, there are several problems with how Tesla illuminated fluorescent bulbs. The high energy electrons generated as a product of the high voltage were capable of exciting electrons in the orbit of neon gasses into a higher state before those electrons dropped to a lower state (or shell) and emitted a photon in return. This was done through sheer electrostatic potential - which, while very interesting and worthy of note and research - this is also not exactly what you want in your home.

Fluorescent bulbs as we understand them work on a catalyst in the Cathode and Anode to allow a lower voltage, provided by an inductive unit in the "ballast" (which is still a higher voltage than what is communicated through the line), to excite a gas and pass current to a phosphorous coating (which is actually what triggers the lower-voltage release of light).

While a tesla coil can generate enough voltage on its own to illuminate a 'dead' fluorescent bulb, it does so by generating ionizing voltages that make the picture tube of a TV look like nine volt battery next to a wall outlet. A Tesla coil can easily produce 20 kilovolts or greater. Some of the "old school" variety operating off of spark gaps could reach outputs of over a hundred kilovolts (and some still are designed to work at such high voltages).

It is also the case that Tesla's idea for the transmission of energy would simply not work all that well. It may have been practical for lighting up a town with a massive ass tesla coil in place of the water tower (it would also vaporize flocks of birds and careless airplane pilots) - but it would not have made for a very good transmitter of enough power to heat/cool our homes, cook our food, and operate our power tools.

For that, we have power lines that are much more efficient at transmitting power where it is needed.

But, don't let the resident electronics expert confound wonder with facts.

Tesla was indeed a great man and one who any aspiring electrical-anything should study. But it is an insult to his achievements and personality to treat him as though he were a martyr.
Since when is admiring a man and talking about his discoveries "sucking ****" or treating him like a mathyr?
 

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Why did I know it was you from the title? Lol

Anyways, it was a good read and Tesla is indeed one of the best engineer's this planet has ever had. I'd like to see evem more research of his.
Hhahaha, is it the style of the titles or am I that boring with threads? But I mentioned somewhere that I'll do this.
Phenomenal engineer indeed, Blazing should be the next Nikola Tesla. :cool:
Indeed. I got no idea who's Blazing though.
He was amazing too bad the evil men and women of this world did not want his genius to be used to benefit mankind.
Well majority of his work did benefit mankind on a humongous scale, ofc there's the other side of the coin too sadly. I.e. weaponry, H.A.A.R.P....
Since when is admiring a man and talking about his discoveries "sucking ****" or treating him like a mathyr?
He probably has a small we-we syndrom which he cures on here, as visible from most of his posts I've read on NB. Just ignore the poor fella.
Oh and Nikola was born in Smiljan - Croatia, and was proud both of his Croatian nationality and Serbian heritage.
 

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Well majority of his work did benefit mankind on a humongous scale, ofc there's the other side of the coin too sadly. I.e. weaponry, H.A.A.R.P....
His biggest work is the free energy thing he was working on, his experiments proved it worked he even built machines that worked using this ambient energy. Of course bankers that want to make money off ordinary men and women with the help of their politician subordinates seized his work after his death and hid it from the public. Sad.
 

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Since when is admiring a man and talking about his discoveries "sucking ****" or treating him like a mathyr?
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.
 

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Great thread, Tesla had an amazing mind.
I find Edward Leedskalnins' work with electromagnetism very interesting as well. He reminds me of Tesla. We should know more about men like these, that have knowledge and ideas that could truly free us from our energy dependency.
 

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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.
Considering Teslas' ideas and inventions spanned many areas and that he was more interested in the workings of the Universe as a whole than anything else, he may not have been interested enough or had the time to develope or perfect every idea that he had.
 

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I wonder why he wasn't mentioned in my Physics class.

An interesting read.
Along with a plethora of other people stealing his ideas and his patents; there's also the fact that Tesla wanted the entire world to benefit from his work, and he wanted to abolish war. These are two very anti-capitalist ideas.

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Along with a plethora of other people stealing his ideas and his patents; there's also the fact that Tesla wanted the entire world to benefit from his work, and he wanted to abolish war. These are two very anti-capitalist ideas.

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In that case, I'm not surprised they would do him like that.
 

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Considering Teslas' ideas and inventions spanned many areas and that he was more interested in the workings of the Universe as a whole than anything else, he may not have been interested enough or had the time to develope or perfect every idea that he had.
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.
 

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While I agree that Tesla was a genius, your opening post was copied (word for word in most places) from a biased activist site and that makes me question what you've written.

Excluding a few slightly edited sentences, this seems to be the site you got your information from.
I'm not sure if this counts as advertising off-site links so I've spoiler'd it and a moderator is welcome to remove it if need be.


That site is filled with topics like vaccine conspiracies and the faking of Bin Laden's death. The thing that interested me most was the flashing "Tesla Secret" advert which redirects you to a video where they try to sell you the updated plans to Tesla's free energy idea, telling you to act quickly as the power industry is trying everyday to get their video removed.
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I won't contest that Tesla achieved some amazing feats but at the same time I think some of his ideas were lunacy.
 
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