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Nikola Tesla

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Originally posted by: Modelworks
I have all his patents in print form, so yeah I am a big fan of his work.
The thing that upsets me is that Tesla is not taught in schools, but they hype Edison to the point that even 5th graders know who he is. If you use a AC motor chances are it uses Tesla's work
Some things he invented that were way ahead of their time.

1892 - radio
1898 - radio controlled boat
1901 - converting of sunlight into electricity
1905 - transmission of power via wireless
1909 - propulsion using fluids in a turbine
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With the radio, he 'stole' 17 patents.
 
Originally posted by: edro
If he was as good as you think, King Edison wouldn't have ran him into the ground.

Tesla was a wus.
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Watch it. Tesla's a vampire, and he'll kill your ass for talking about him like that.
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: Modelworks
The thing that upsets me is that Tesla is not taught in schools, but they hype Edison to the point that even 5th graders know who he is.
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That's what I was getting at. Kids know Edison but not Tesla oh and I know Tesla is in The Prestige but I haven't seen that movie so I can't comment on that.
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The Prestige really doesn't show anything accurate about Tesla, it is all fiction in that movie.

Edison was a businessman first and scientist second. He was mainly concerned with money. That was why he got so upset at Tesla , because Tesla wanted to give away the information and technology and Edison wanted to sell it.


Edison was so upset at Tesla for coming up with AC current vs Edison DC current that Edison electrocuted a elephant in front of reporters to show that Tesla AC current was deadly and too deadly for use.

The downside of all this is that Tesla never had the money he needed to do the work he wanted to.


1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to Edison's own direct current.

Edison had established direct current at the standard for electricity distribution and was living large off the patent royalties, royalties he was in no mood to lose when George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla showed up with alternating current.

Edison's aggressive campaign to discredit the new current took the macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC (a killing process he referred to snidely as getting "Westinghoused"). Stray dogs and cats were the most easily obtained, but he also zapped a few cattle and horses.
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Yeah that is man I want my kids to look up to.
 
Originally posted by: edro
If he was as good as you think, King Edison wouldn't have ran him into the ground.

Tesla was a wus.
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Edison was the Microsoft of his day. He didn't invent half of the things he's credited for- he bought people's ideas (sometimes underhandedly) and claimed them as his own.
 
If I remember reading correctly, many of Tesla's notes and documentation were confiscated by the US government upon his death, and some of his work remains classified to this day. I wonder why that is...
 
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: Modelworks
The thing that upsets me is that Tesla is not taught in schools, but they hype Edison to the point that even 5th graders know who he is.
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That's what I was getting at. Kids know Edison but not Tesla oh and I know Tesla is in The Prestige but I haven't seen that movie so I can't comment on that.
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The Prestige really doesn't show anything accurate about Tesla, it is all fiction in that movie.

Edison was a businessman first and scientist second. He was mainly concerned with money. That was why he got so upset at Tesla , because Tesla wanted to give away the information and technology and Edison wanted to sell it.


Edison was so upset at Tesla for coming up with AC current vs Edison DC current that Edison electrocuted a elephant in front of reporters to show that Tesla AC current was deadly and too deadly for use.

The downside of all this is that Tesla never had the money he needed to do the work he wanted to.


1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to Edison's own direct current.

Edison had established direct current at the standard for electricity distribution and was living large off the patent royalties, royalties he was in no mood to lose when George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla showed up with alternating current.

Edison's aggressive campaign to discredit the new current took the macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC (a killing process he referred to snidely as getting "Westinghoused"). Stray dogs and cats were the most easily obtained, but he also zapped a few cattle and horses.
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Yeah that is man I want my kids to look up to.
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The Prestige was right about one aspect of Tesla. He was a crazy mofo. If he had been as grounded, businesslike, and as social as Edison he would be the man to this day. Unfortunately he's the original mold for the mad scientist.
 
Originally posted by: Kadarin
If I remember reading correctly, many of Tesla's notes and documentation were confiscated by the US government upon his death, and some of his work remains classified to this day. I wonder why that is...
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The government admitted to it in 1980. But nobody knows even today what was taken.

Dr. D Loazado, One of the advisers to vice president Wallace concerning this matter, Lozado told Spanel that the government was vitally interested in the effects of Tesla and requested Spanel to lose no time in doing all he could to preserve them.
Bloyce Fitzgerald, an electrical engineer who had been quite close to Tesla during his life time, advised the New York office that on January seventh, nineteen forty three, Sava Kosanovich, George Clark, who is in charge of the Museum and Laboratory for RCA, and Kenneth Swezey of the one six three Milton street, Brooklyn, NY , went to Tesla's room in the New Yorker, and with the assistance of a locksmith broke into a safe which Telsa had in his room in which he kept some of his valuable papers, including important electrical formula, designs, etc. That within the past month, Tesla told Fitzferald that his experiments in connection with the wireless transmission of electrical power had been completed and perfected.
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Ah, Tesla was amazing. I just asked my room-mate if he knew who he was, he didn't. When you get right into it, it is truly astounding what he did for mankind.

Albert Einstein while providing valuable research, pales in comparison to the practical application of science, yet he is probably the best known scientist to ever live.
 
Originally posted by: Modelworks
I have all his patents in print form, so yeah I am a big fan of his work.
The thing that upsets me is that Tesla is not taught in schools, but they hype Edison to the point that even 5th graders know who he is. If you use a AC motor chances are it uses Tesla's work
Some things he invented that were way ahead of their time.

1892 - radio
1898 - radio controlled boat
1901 - converting of sunlight into electricity
1905 - transmission of power via wireless
1909 - propulsion using fluids in a turbine
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yeap i never heard about him in school. it was not until while in college i read about him in a science fiction book. that i did some research on the man and was amazed.

 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Am I the only one who thinks Nikola Tesla doesn't get the credit he deserves? We wouldn't be where we are today without him. Granted Edison did do things also but Tesla's inventions had more impact and we would have none of this stuff today if not for him. You see kids getting taught about Edison and how great he was but I don't remember ever hearing about Tesla when I was in elementary school and just a little bit in high school. It's always about Edison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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You sound like every other high school/college kid who discovers Nikola Tesla and get overly impressed. It's almost clichéd at this point.
 
Originally posted by: edro
If he was as good as you think, King Edison wouldn't have ran him into the ground.

Tesla was a wus.
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Edison was more of a ruthless businessman than an inventor. I'm sure he did some inventing on his own but the popularity stemmed from the empire he ran. Sort of like Bill Gates.
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Am I the only one who thinks Nikola Tesla doesn't get the credit he deserves? We wouldn't be where we are today without him. Granted Edison did do things also but Tesla's inventions had more impact and we would have none of this stuff today if not for him. You see kids getting taught about Edison and how great he was but I don't remember ever hearing about Tesla when I was in elementary school and just a little bit in high school. It's always about Edison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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You sound like every other high school/college kid who discovers Nikola Tesla and get overly impressed. It's almost clichéd at this point.
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Right umm well I neither in college or highschool and it just popped into my head about him. Didn't watch anything, didn't read anything. Sorry that you feel that way.
 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
Originally posted by: manowar821
Of course you're not the only one, Tesla was a wonderful scientist.
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...and 31 flavors of crazy
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I'm surprised it took so long to mention how much of a psycho he was! I mean, he was an absolutely brilliant psycho, but nutty nonetheless.
 
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