Posted on 02/06/2013 6:44:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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This guy was so much more brilliant than Edison.
In some regards, Edison was a punk and a copycat.
***Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White in New York.***
Ah yes, the Stanford White of THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING scandal. Shot dead by her hubby.
The entire North East is still being powered by Tesla’s first power plant.
Morgan Jr was a short-sighted prick. We could sure use a man like Tesla today. My abdo-lute hero. Halfway through Margeret Cheney’s book for the third time. His contributions to the science of electricity have molded the way we live today!
Indeed, but Edison was a ruthless SOB when it came to business.
“Tesla, by comparison, invented AC and WiFi decades ago.”
And early computer guys kept running into his patents! He invented the “and” gate.
Edison was a creep! He paid boys to grab peoples cats and dogs and then “Westinghoused” them using AC power, trying to scare people away from AC.
The Wardenclyffe Tower.
Thank God he convinced Morgan that AC was the way to go for powering the home. But such a shame that he died broke.
Wifi is actually based upon frequency hopping spread spectrum technology and the inventor of that has a story that bests even Tesla. She (yes, she) was widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world. She used her range of acting talent and God-given beauty to set the standard by which all other Hollywood starlets were measured. Her incredible beauty and intellect(specifically mathematics) made her a force of nature, capturing the attention of heads of state and movie fans alike. She married and arms merchant named Friedrich Mandl, the third richest man in Europe when she was 19. He used her for arm candy when hosting the likes of Hitler and Mussolini in order to sell munitions. She left him and escaped to continue pursuing her acting career in America. She worked and married a composer named George Antheil. Together they devised a secret wireless communication system based on the 88 keys of a piano, driven in large part to help the US military in WWII.
Lamarr’s and Antheil’s frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as Bluetooth, COFDM used in Wi-Fi network connections, and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones.[25] Blackwell, Martin, and Vernam’s 1920 patent Secrecy Communication System seems to lay the communications groundwork for Kiesler and Antheil’s patent, which employed the techniques in the autonomous control of torpedoes. In other words, Hedy Lamarr is likely the most influential woman in history and most people don’t know her story. Not just another pretty face!
“The entire North East is still being powered by Tesla’s first power plant.”
That statement contains a bit of truth, an oversimplification and no small amount of exaggeration. All rolled into one.
yup, and a damn fine actress...
“which employed the techniques in the autonomous control of torpedoes.”
Wasn’t that a Tesla invention? Around 1894?
Can you recommend a bio of Lamarr?
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Perhaps you’re thinking of Tesla’s radio controlled submersibles, first demonstrated at the 1893 Columbian Exposition (it was in 1893 because they were a year late in the planning etc), giving him priority over Marconi (Tesla sued over Marconi’s unlicensed use of his radio patents).
The thing is, AC is actually now becoming a liability...
.. not knocking Tesla, AC was the best tech at the time. But most appliances (including washers and dryers) convert AC over to DC — sometimes just to convert it back to 3-phase AC for precise induction motor control (one of Tesla’s inventions that will never die, more than likely).
Also, the power companies lose tons of money due to capacitance in everything from the big lines (up to million volts or more), and small systems (your block).
With the advent of power electronics that can work on the power levels involved now, you will see more and more DC systems going on line, at least to the substation. They have a dramatic drop in line loss due to capacitance and inductance in the system. At the termination point, you have a monster inverter to convert it back to pure sine wave AC current, 3-phase.
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