Nicola Tesla

[maryals]

For those of you who have the time and like to research on your own, here is a link http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/tesla.html that'll keep ya busy!

Nicola Tesla was born at exactly the stroke of midnight between July 9 and 10, 1856. It was in the small village of Smiljan, Croatia (then Austria-Hungary), and, forgive my personal ignorance of 21st Century GeoPolitics, I don't know what the Country is called today. Serbia? BosniaHerzgovenia? That durn map keeps changing! Perhaps someone can help us out here

At your leasure, this link is very good: http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla1.htm ATTEN TrueWireless: the picture of Tesla in that link is one I really like. GAWD he was a Handsome Man!
It describes the Man behind the Mind.

Both his parents were extraordinary. "Tesla had an older brother, Dane, whom he considered his superior in every way. When Nikola was five and Dane was twelve, Nikola was jealous of Dane's white stallion, which their father said Nikola was too young to ride. One day Nikola used a blow gun to shoot a pea at the horse, causing it to throw Dane from its back. Dane later died from his injuries. Feelings of guilt over this tragedy haunted Tesla throughout his life. No matter how great his achievements, he always believed that Dane could have outdone him. " cut and pested from the above link

Living with a genius, in the person of RainMaker, I can tell you that one should attempt to try to understand the Person who has been given such a great mind.

I will attempt to make my posts short. I do not promise any chronological order.
I do have several books on Tesla that I can refer to, and, of course, there are the websites.

I am expecting TrueWireLess to jump in

And, sometimes, a subject as complex as "Nicola Tesla" is best covered by answering your questions.

"Nicola Tesla" will generate questions of "conspiracies", the battle between Tesla and Edison, The Robber Barons, genuine Science, a meriad of topics. Therefore, I trust that the Mods will realize this and allow this thread to take the twists and turns that cannot be avoided in a real discussion of this Greatest Genius of all time.

He has also been called "The Man Who Invented the 20th Century"

Thank you

[Maverick]

Maryals, thank you the information on Tesla, from time to time I hear him mentioned on coast to coast and want to look up his works and/or biography but something always comes up. And here it is right in front of me so no excuses :Aliensmil He is indeed a genius, and it is rather sad that he wasn't given more success or acknowledgement for his invention and work.

I wonder though if he was alive today, if the PTB would have accepted his work more if he was given a diagnostic label(perhaps Aspergers, or High functioning Autism?) I say that because then they would know more or less what to expect from Tesla and recognize that he does have some limitations but would not have made him less a genius.

[maryals]

Forgive my ignorance, what is PTB?
Tesla had no time for "Politics" among his fellow Scientists, but he was a very charming, and handsome man, who attracted the money and the publicity that allowed him to work on his inventions.

He was indeed close friends with Samuel Clemens, and was the Darling of the "400". Mrs John Jacob Astor would hold grand parties in the grand ballroom of their grand mansion (isn't that grand?).

This Ballroom would comfortably hold only 400 people. Hence, if you got an invite to one of Mrs Astor's Parties, you were considered one of the "Fortune 400". Don't know when the number got raised to 500. Mebbe it was a device of the Editor of "Fortune Magazine.

But I digress.

So that it could be boasted that the great Nicola Tesla was a good friend, Tesla lived utterly rent free at The Astor Hotel in New York for many years.

I am utterly dumbfounded that I never learned a thing about Nicola Tesla all thru school

Now THERE's a discussion, why American Textbooks ignore Tesla!

Thank you

[Maverick]

For me. "PTB" = government, or just the people who had the means at that time to help finance his inventions or ideas.

Yes, agreed never heard of him until coast to coast.

[True Wireless]

Hi Maryals and thanks for starting a thread about Tesla. He sort of fits in the current 'paradigm' with Col. Bearden and kind. Interesting to note he did what the others didn't do..actually bring 'it' to life.

The fact he could take something directly from mind to reality and have it work correctly seperates him from the rest. The machine about thought photography sounds very similar to Father Ernetti's Chronovisor that I have come across...since we don't know if he made one...but based on his track record..this taken from your link Maryals:

http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla5.htm

The single weirdest invention Tesla ever proposed was probably the "thought photography" machine. He reasoned that a thought formed in the mind created a corresponding image in the retina, and the electrical data of this neural transmission could be read and recorded in a machine. The stored information could then be processed through an artificial optic nerve and played back as visual patterns on a viewscreen.
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Now isn't that fascinating, Art had someone on who talked about how when you know someone is looking at you by feeling their stare..would seem to indicate a base for evolving this as true..and just imagine the implications.

On a grand scale..such as that domain perhaps the realm of alien (as if any thing is really alien) or extra-terrestial intelligence of a higher order can control...it is easy to extrapolate out and comprehend how a solar system or just the planet Earth could be controlled..and in specific the true matrix per human existence and the basis for all conjecture ala 6th sense/Rod Serling to the basis of C2C.

PTB = government? Don't get the acronym, public travesty board? help me out

[True Wireless]

I should have included above when talking about Art's guest...that he indicated that there is something emitted from the eye of the viewer that is discerned by the viewee that causes the person to turn and look...it is from there I extrapolated to where I did in the previous post.

Whew..sometimes hard to get enough of one's thoughts out on a post.

[maryals]

For me. "PTB" = government, or just the people who had the means at that time to help finance his inventions or ideas.

Yes, agreed never heard of him until coast to coast.

PTB could also mean "Powers that be"? In his early years Tesla had little trouble getting the funding and backing he needed. Westinghouse was in competition against JP Morgan, among others. He saw, you should pardon the pun, the "potential" of this young man's ideas. Westinghouse was Tesla's first financial backer.

Ever since electricity was discovered, and put to use, the accepted, "proven" scientific "fact" was that only Direct Current or DC is safe and economical.
The greatest minds of the time declared that Alternating Current or AC was dangerous and in fact a myth, impossible to achieve.

In a word, Tesla proved them all wrong. He broke the mystery of making AC safe and affordable.

I'll save the Edison vs Tesla Wars for another time.

Westinghouse won the contract for the lighting for the World Fair held in New York, 1893. The success of AC used for this World Fair ended what has been called "The War of the Currents".

Skipping way ahead, if you don't mind finding out how the story ends and THEN go back and fill in the blanks: Tesla had not only a dream but also the solid scientific means for making electricity FREE.

Imagine, if you will, that the inventors and developers of the World Wide Web charged a fee from the get go to use it. And that they were making a great deal of money from it.

Then along comes some genius who says, "but I know of a way to make access to and use of the WWW absolutely free". We've all listened to enough C2C to know what would happen.
Ditto non cable TV and radio.

JP Morgan et al were already "selling" electricity, whether DC or AC. They were not about to dismantle all those meters and suddenly give this commodity away for free.

That was when the funds began to dry up.

OK consider this post as a sort of "Preview", like the Previews we see at the movies

Thank you
Mary

[Maverick]

Hi TrueWireless:

I'll try, PTB=powers that be. I belong to a forum for children with special needs. Whenever we post about availability of government funding we use this short form. For e.g, If only the PTB would fund this...we wouldn't have to go and do it privately..blah, blah, blah. It got me the first time also, I thought it mean "parent, teacher, board

Sorry about the confusion. It's forum speak and I should know better. One time I had to ask what "aunt flow" meant as I actually thought that a poster was really talking about her aunt. Later I found out that "aunt flow" meant the women's menstrual period. :Aliensmil

[maryals]

Hi True Wireless, glad you finally jumped in
That link you posted gives another especially good example of how Tesla was way ahead of his time.

Personal note here: the basis of an on going argument between RainMaker and me is science and physics, what's possible, what's impossible, according to the known laws of physics. I point out Tesla, among others, and RM just shakes that off saying, that, well, since then there has been discovered and proven all that is to be discovered and proven grrrrr he is so intelligent but I fear his "mind like a steel trap" is rusted shut on certain things!
I am afraid that there is no true scientific thought around today. "Scientists" are afraid of loosing their standing within "the Community". The Professors are afraid of loosing their Tenure.
I am afraid that personal ego and fear has put mankind into a kind of "Dark Ages" where Science is concerned. No one wants to come forward with a Theory or even experiments that may disprove something held as "Scientific Fact" by their "Peers".

What does all this have to do with Nicola Tesla? IMO he was one of the last genuine pioneers in practical scientific discovery.

Oh yes, we have Dr Miccio Kaku and Steven Hawkings, but their Theories, "proven" by mathematics, are on such a grand scale that they cannot be proven or disproven in a laboratory or by any other practical means.

OK that's my soapbox speech....now, back to Nicola

[maryals]

Nicola Tesla had his first taste of Single Malt scotch in America. He fell in love with the amber libation! Not to the point of abusing Scotch, but of genuinly appreciating it

Another sign of his Genius

[Shecoda]

http://www.apc.net/bturner/coils.htm

The first time I heard of Tesla was in high school science class. The first time I saw a real Tesla coil was at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, in San Diego.

My kids and I read about the coil which was towering over us, then went on to other exhibits. When this baby went off we all jumped. It was totally a trip to watch.

A few years ago, a riding partner of mine was showing me around her house. To her amazement, I recognized a small Tesla coil that her husband had in his office in the basement. No demonstration as hubby was out flying his experimental plane. I didn't know you could buy them through Edmund Scientific.

This is a great catalog for anyone who is scientific minded. They used to sell a small seismograph that does work if there are earth tremors locally.

[maryals]

Very good link shecoda, thank you! I am convinced that it was a Tesla Coil that Art Bell inadvertantly created when he wound wire round and round his Short Wave Antenna.

I don't know about "Zero point energy", but Tesla has proven that resonance can and does make a relatively small amount of electrical energy grow to larger and larger voltages.

Again, thank you

[True Wireless]

I don't know about "Zero point energy", but Tesla has proven that resonance can and does make a relatively small amount of electrical energy grow to larger and larger voltages.

Voltage isn't what hurts you...soo..next time your expending some personal "voltage"...turn it up, some folks in Timbukto what to see ya and it won't hurt a bit!