[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tesla Question (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/1/2007 4:00:37 AM EDT
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Tesla holds near god-like status with a guy at work. He was telling me that Tesla was conducting an experiment on the wireless transmission of energy when the Tunguska Event happened. He's convinced that there was a direct connection, and due to the effect (the devestating blast) Tesla stopped those experiments. Tesla is a fascinating character. I just haven't taken the time to study him in depth. When I first started reading a little about him I couldn't figure out how to separate fact from myth. The things that he has verifiably done (like triumphing over Edison on the AC power issue) show that he was an amazing inventor. Other things, like the car that he powered without gasoline, that can't be verified or reproduced, leave one wondering. Question: Do you think there was a connection between Tesla and Tunguska? |
Yes, I think Tesla was working on a weapon..and screwed up.. He was a genius..there are 1000's of papers the FBI carted off from the hotel he died in...that will never see the light of day.. |
I'll see if I can dig up the article but some geologists have recently claimed that they may have found the crater created by the fragments that reached the ground. There is a lake with some odd geological characteristics in a direct line following the trajectory from where the explosion took place. They think this body may have been formed partially or totally from the impact of the surviving fragments. Interesting writeup |
I remember we didnt hear a word about him in school, never knew the name until I saw a show on History channel |
+1 Tesla, rather than Edison, is the father of electricity. Tesla invented alternating current, without which, long distance power transmissson is impossible. Edison's direct current power plants needed to be located only city blocks away from the end users. |
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Tesla was probably the greatest genius in human history if you consider that he was equally gifted with both theory and application engineering (very rare). Myself, I've always had a problem when pure thoerists like Einstien or Hawking are held in such high regard - someone like Tesla actually applied himself to making practical use of his theories. Here's a list of Tesla's Patents from Wikipedia. Imagine what the world would be like today without Alternating Current. |
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If you're interested in Tesla, there's a biography entitled "The Prodigal Genious" that's pretty definitive. If he were alive today, it's beyond imagination what he could accomplished being that he could build on the existing knowledge base rather than having to work from the ground up. |
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my Dad was an electircian, apprecenticed as a boy..born in 1902 and an electrical engineer with a PHD he recieved after WWII, said he even met Edison as a youngerster.. He worked with Lingberg on a project sometime in the 1930's and was heavilly involved in government work until the mid 1960's on a world wide arena..then over 25 years with NASA. I tried to get him to discuss Tesla once upon a time..he said,, "Brilliant Man, the the true father of Modern Electicty. Very sad what they did to him...." and would discuss no more... I believe the Govt shut him down and made a mockery of him,,beyond the fact of his own eccentricties and possible bi-polar disorders...including schizophrenia |
Tesla on working with Edison:
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Tesla was working with either Edison or Westinghouse on electricitc theriories and their applicaations but when Tesla's goal to provide "FREE ELECTRICITY TO THE AVERAGE MAN" free and wireless. Well, this completely threatened thier wealthy sponsor, I believe a 'Hunt' so Westinghouse totally pulled out because he was threatened by Hunt of cutting off all funding and so Tesla was left with out a a backer and a collegue. There was one tower built in 1907 or later, not sure but what could one tower do? Point being, free wireless transmition of electricity would destroy the rich Capitalists (carpet baggers) power over the common man and completely knock out the extensive infrastructure to create and deliver electricity. No copper wire or factories to produce such to the coal we use to make 85% of the US's total production of electricity!! The names of Tesla's associates and his financial backer's names may be wrong but this inccident of Tesla's history is accurate. They say he developed a machine that could cause controlled and directed earthquakes but this may be one of the many Tesla "tales" that one reads. It is kind of difficult finding indepth information on Tesla. I came across one report and when I came back to it, it was gone-404 and that was that. Anyway, I had to put my .02 cents in. WindRunnerII |
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I worked for a company in Nevada called PolyPhaser Corp. They manufactured surge protection devices. The owner was a Tesla fan. He got the name of the company from one of Tesla's inventions. He even had a framed picture of Tesla in his office. Is it possible to request information on Tesla using the Freedom of Information Act? Has anyone tried yet? |
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The New Wizard of the West-1899...LINK The man was a genius, but I also suspect he possesed a certain intuition of the things he worked on and how they related to one another. |
Meh, he'd probably be sucked into posting on ARFCOM all day like me rather than using his considerable talents, like me, for the greater good. 
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Wireless Power Charging Over the Air |
If you're sure you can handle it, here's the video, from 1981. "Little Suzi's on the Up" by PhD. Compared to the Tesla version, it's full of suck (much keyboard). www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1535994&vid=98192 |
Thanks. With all the radio waves out there. Now all we need is a circuit that would charge up batteries for your home and help everybody get off the grid.  Edit to add. Isn't that why the Power companies discredited Tesla to foil his plans? |
You are way off in your assertion that 85% of the U.S. electricity production comes from coal. |
Red alert in 3d? |
I'm guessing its a mod to CC Renegade. |
| I've read several books about Tesla, and while the man was a genius, towards the end of his life he seems to have become unhinged. He would write about death rays and earthquake machines, and at the same time he became a recluse. The guy did a lot, but towards the end he wasn't all there. |
Edison was a better businessman and a better showman. |
Well, the FBI has all of his documents.  |
Edison was an American and Tesla was not. |
tesla was a time traveler escaped into his time, tracked down and driven insane. the tangusta thing was a time traveling war machine that he was able to shoot down at great risk.. a lone survivor was able to eventually reach tesla and give him a brainworm that did its work as is well documented (farther along). |
My world is shaken.
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I never understood WHY Tesla and the U2 spyplane was associated with the USSR in C&C: Red Alert. 
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While he wasn't born an American, Tesla was an American citizen |