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Nikola Tesla

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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
 
He doesn't get the credit he deserves. The book "Empires of Light" (which I have yet to read, but my dad talks about it a lot) has a lot about Tesla. I should pick up that book when I have time....
 
There are a lot of books, which I have read but cannot remember the names, that talk about the things that he did but didn't credit for. To think, if we just funded the man, how advanced would we be by now. His tower on the east coast would have been built and working. Wireless transmission of energy...The possibilities are endless.
 
If he was as good as you think, King Edison wouldn't have ran him into the ground.

Tesla was a wus.
 
i have a book about him, but it was some of his inventions and got too technical for me. definitely an awesome guy, shame he didnt leave some documentation for stuff
 
Most well-knowledged engineers of the like, and anything of the sort related to electricity, light, etc etc.... knows Tesla very well. It's the everyday joe who doesn't know who the guy was because he was a footprint in a 7th grade science book and that was the extent of science education they received.
 
There's a thread about him in every internet forum in existence about once every 2-3 months. God knows how many movies, books, and documentaries have featured him. How much credit is enough?
 
You're guilty of crime in the first degree,
Second and third as well.
My jury finds you'll be serving your time
When you go straight to hell.

'Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,
Though "socially fright'ning",
But never out to sell.

Their nickels and pence
Meant more than did sense,
And not the sensible thing.

Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
All along, world was wrong. You was right.

All that he saw, all he conceived,
They just could not believe.
Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,
Along with number three.
He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,
"New Wizard of the West."
But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind,
And said Edison knew best.

He was the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Said you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison's medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
Edison's medicine.

I spent twelve years of hard time,
More like the best years of my life.
Never heard or read a single word
About "the man" and his "wicked mind."
They'll sell you on Marconi.
Familiar, but a phony.
Story goes they sold their souls
And swore that you'd never know...

About the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Swore you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison's medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
Edison's medicine.
 
I've been a Tesla worshiper for many years.

Edison and Marconi definately had the chops too, so I don't harbor any ill feelings to them.
 
Am I the only one who thinks he doesn't get the credit he deserves?
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no. He's totally, "the thing" these day. I suppose ever since The Prestige, it's been super cool to wax on about Tesla.
 
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



 
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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