Posted on 01/13/2005 8:04:25 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
Inventor Nikola Tesla is beginning to remind me of the Michigan Mushroom—that underground fungus, nearly as large as its native state. He keeps cropping up unexpectedly like a truth suppressed. In 2004 this once forgotten scientist peppered films as motley as the smoky Coffee and Cigarettes, the silicone-sleek Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and the shoestring Primer. Tesla, beside inventing the radio (check with the Supreme Court, Marconi fans), the radar, remote control, and alternating current (AC electricity), also tinkered with a series of dreamy though equally ingenious ideas: plans to light the oceans, photograph thoughts, use insects to create a harnessable power supply, communicate with life in outer space, harvest free energy from the Earth's atmosphere, control the weather with electricity, even build a ring about the equator that, by remaining stationary while the planet rotates, would make it possible to travel around the entire world in one day.
At the start of the last century, Tesla's mind-bending inventions foreshadowed a future in which an enlightened citizenry, wardrobed in silver space suits, would travel about a world where no one was ever hungry and war existed only in memory—where scientific wonders were invented every day in backyards, garages, and small workshops. Tesla, the cult hero of independent invention, is materializing again, a bright-red streak on the gray background of corporatized science, to remind us that something went awry.
(Excerpt) Read more at villagevoice.com ...
Hmm.
I guess I was right aboot you.
Nice try. You tried to wave off the other poster for his "glib" inclusion of Bush, when he was accurately commenting on the article.
You were wrong. Sorry to see you're not grown up enough to admit it.
That doesn't logically rule out the possiblity that he made millions with Westinghouse. Ulitimately it was the Tesla/Westinghouse alternating current that won out over Edison's direct current system.
Be sure to send me the link when you get it done... who knows... Art Bell might feature it ;)
I'm not worng. Wrong.
I'm a big fan of Tesla (the man, not the band). But this article was crap. Tesla was bad with money, but a big fan of capitalism. The author's segue into a mini-tirade on the president was unfitting and uncalled for.
Edison and Tesla is another story.
We didn't!! LMAO!!
BTW - that doesn't negate the fact that his Apt was raided as soon as he was dead. And you'll never see those papers.
Hehe!
They will be on my home page. :-)
Tesla stole Tesla's thunder. He had no interest in radio. At least Marconi turned the invention into something useful.
If Tesla had been able to chase his demons, who knows where we'd be this day.
Tesla did chase his demons and he ended up broke. It's too bad he didn't remain partnered with people who knew business better than he did.
Thank God my GF isn't watching this thread. She'd swoon. lol
Hollyweird is only interested if he can be portrayed as a homosexual.
***he ended up broke.***
Uh huh.
*** Tesla stole Tesla's thunder. He had no interest in radio. At least Marconi turned the invention into something useful.***
Go to Google; enter the search string: tesla radio history
I knew someone would beat me to it.
Hmmmm
According to Spider Robinson, Tesla is alive and well at Callahan's. ;-)
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