The History of Nikola Tesla - A Short Story

[Fernbay]

This vid was made for the 154th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth, which was July 10th.

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[Skepticist]

Tesla was a unique genius whose visions + inventions have shaped the world as we see it these days but regardless of all that, he seems to be shunned to some extent even now. Radio is a good example of a principle he developed but the honours (even now in text books) went to Marconi even though Tesla successfully challenged Marconi through the courts.

Seems he went a bit screw-loose in his later years or at least it appears that way. Of course his seemingly wackier ideas like dirigible torpedoes, flying stoves, death rays etc could very well be viable based on his earlier accomplishments and maybe we'll never know the complete truth of all that. His wirelessly powered electric car demo in the 30s is well documented and, as yet, unexplained or duplicated. When a reporter accused him of fraud after that demo he simply packed up his equipment and took it home in disgust, never to be seen again. My view on that one is that he was transmitting the energy for the car from his Colorado Springs lab and picking it up on the 6' antenna he fitted to the vehicle (all on public record). Good thing there were no EM radiation activists back in those days

[didgydont]

A few months ago in google news their was some ppl saying they had transmitted power wirelessly. This was after i had watched some tesla doco's and all i was thinking is they have finaly worked out a way to make it difficult to pick up and put a meter on thier gear and charge for it. Im also pretty sure he packed up and left becuase of mysterious fire that destroyed most of his research.

[Drift]

Im also pretty sure he packed up and left becuase of mysterious fire that destroyed most of his research.

Marie Curie died from radiation poisoning too but that doesn't make her contribution to modern technology any less relevant.

There are those that are happy to live within the confines of the box that society defines for them, and there are those for whom that box is either transparent or all together non-existent. They always make mistakes, but without mistakes there would be no progress.