Nikola Tesla
[Nikola Tesla was born July 10th, 1856, in Smiljian, Croatia, back then the Austrian Empire, and his parents were both Serbian by origin. His father, Milutin, was a priest and a poet, and he wanted him to join the priesthood but he was devoted to science. [Tesla's mom Ducca developed appliances to ease her labor including a mechanical egg beater, Nikola later credited her for his inventiveness at this up by the parents in link one section.⁵ ] He went to schools in Germany, Graz, Austin, and Prague, then he moved to Budapest, Hungary, and worked while his inductor motor idea came to him. Then at 28, he left to America. Nikola pictured a wheel run by Niagara Falls for electricity and told his uncle he would go and do it, 30 years later it was accomplished. The Niagara Falls for electricity(a hydro electric plant) was a hydroelectric power plant.]¹ [They tried to discredit his discovery of AC(alternating current). The main worldwide electrical system we all now use, and they tried to call him crazy for predicting the radio. He used mechanical therapy to heal himself and his friends including Mark Twain, who he said his books saved his life. He had only a few close friends, writers Robert Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, Francis Marion Crawford, and Walter Russell supported Tesla when his soul was low from doubting and attacks by lesser minds. He had an idea for a peace ray, which they called a death ray, [offering every country in a visible Chinese wall.⁴] Nikola said Edison would have been wiped out of existence without his invention, and yet they never acknowledged him. George Westinghouse in 1888 purchased his patents and gave him stock, and in 1893 he had Nikola's AC system run the lighting for the world's Columbia exposition. [When Westinghouse was facing ruin he begged Nikola for relief, and Nikola tore up the royalty contract which would have given him millions and even billions in the future to save Westinghouse's company.⁵] Nikola patented the Tesla Coil laying the foundations for wireless technologies, still used in radios today.]² [Nikola made a RC boat debut at Madison Square Garden in 1898 which he said was equipped with a borrowed mind. He asked the cubed root of 64 to the audience which he flashed four times wirelessly on the boat with red lights. He lit 200 lamps wirelessly from a 25-mile distance. He won the Edison medal, ironically named the highest honor in 1917, the AIEG could bestow.]³ [Edison promised Tesla $50,000 to improve his DC power plants when Nikola finished Edison didn't pay him and said it was a joke, and sent him to hard labor digging ditches. Investors found out and financed for him the Tesla electric light company, though all the money went to the investors for his unique arc-lamp designs and efficiency and wireless and worthless stock certificates. Mr. A.K. Brown invested in a lab for him where he invented his imagined AC motor. Then Nikola wanted to transmit low signals between the ionosphere and calculated it as 8 Hertz, 8 Hertz, and in 1950 they discovered this to be true. Also he wanted to transmit power in the ionosphere which he thought was conductive, he was correct again. JP Morgan offered him $150,000 to build a transmission tower and power plant, though Nikola needed a lot more and when Marconi transmitted the letter S from England to Newfoundland. Which Nikola said he did using 17 of his patents, which Tesla in 1899 said he would do from Pikes Peak to Paris also, which there's no information on. Morgan began to doubt and Nikola’s project was a demise. In 1909, Guglielmo Marconi was awarded a Nobel Prize for the radio which Tesla invented and held the patent he filed in 1897 which they erroneously reversed in 1943 after Nikola's death after Nikola had already sued Marconi for the radio, they upheld his radio patent. In after a 1912 he invented a turbine engine that ran off steam or vaporized gas and turned at such high speeds the metal distorted for he needed better materials. After that he was led to rescue pigeons at the beginning of World War I. He invented what we call the radar, and in 1922 he still dressed impeccable. He was a consulting engineer who some thought impractical. He spoke out against theories of Einstein insisting energy is not contained in matter but space between the particles of an atom. In 1912 he dedicated upon “Fragments of Olympian” Gossip to George Viereck In 1928 at 72 he met his last patent resembling a helicopter and an airplane. The tilt rotor or VSTOL plane though he didn't have money for a prototype. In 1939 he made a proposal for the peace beam and the USSR paid $25,000 for it. He wanted to light up the upper atmosphere at night with it and create a man made or aurora borealis. His ideal resembles the USA and Soviet Union charged particle beam weapon. The FBI after Nikola's death seized all his possessions and the Air Force started Project Nick for the peace beam, the details were never published and the papers lost. In 1952 the remaining possessions were released to his nephew and displayed to museum in Yugoslavia. [Tesla died of coronary thrombosis, January 7th 1943 at New York, at 86 in New York.²]] ⁴
References
Audio Files
Quotes
“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”
“Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.”
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
“So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...”
"Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists"
"The question now is why do people conform? The obvious reason we can all agree to is “Fear Of Rejection”. People want to be accepted because it gives them a sense of validation, and sadly this is actually how a lot of us have been brought up. We are taught to shut down a passion or skill because it might not be generally accepted or understood by the public, forgetting that it is the non-conformist who brings forth new ideas, creations and ways of living which produce a vibrant society"
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
"I may say, also, that I am deeply religious at heart, although not in the orthodox meaning, and that I give myself to the constant enjoyment of believing that the greatest mysteries of our being are still to be fathomed and that, all the evidence of the senses and the teachings of exact and dry sciences to the contrary notwithstanding, death itself may not be the termination of the wonderful metamorphosis we witness. In this way I have managed to maintain an undisturbed peace of mind, to make myself proof against adversity, and to achieve contentment and happiness to a point of extracting some satisfaction even from the darker side of life, the trials and tribulations of existence."
"My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made."
"that light propagates with the same velocity irrespective of the character of the source."
"The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea."