Long-Dead Inventor Nikola Tesla Is Electrifying Hip Techies - His Name Is Branding Magic; Thomas...

Wall Street Street ^ | JANUARY 14, 2010 | DANIEL MICHAELS

[Kansas58]

Nice statue of Tesla at Niagara Falls.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Oh please....

[MaxMax]

[dfwgator]

Good band.

[SmokingJoe]

A truly great man.
Too bad he died childless and did not pass on his genes.

[higgmeister]

Standing on a giant dynamo!!!

[Talisker]

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. The government was "vitally interested" in preserving Tesla's papers and two days after his death, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to Tesla's hotel room and seized all his possessions. - pbs.org

[Talisker]

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. The government was "vitally interested" in preserving Tesla's papers and two days after his death, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to Tesla's hotel room and seized all his possessions. - pbs.org

[Moonman62]

Too bad he didn’t stick to what he was good at, rather than trying to be another Edison. Tesla brought about his own misfortune.

[Mmogamer]

Well they did take his papers,,, and have them to this day.

[ThomasThomas]

Just the thought of Tesla makes my hair stand on end.

[ThomasThomas]

He would also be a good brand of energy drink. NiKola!

[RideForever]

Most people don’t realize that the reason Tesla died penniless was because J.P. Morgan, who was backing Edison, saw more merit in the George Westinghouse / Nikola Tesla AC venture. But Tesla held all the patents for generators and motors run by AC. Morgan got Westinghouse to talk to Tesla, and Tesla tore up all his patents in order that the world could accept his vision of power utilization.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Neither of the visionaries Edison and Tesla had all their screws tightened down. Edison pooh-poohed the idea of alternating current for power transmission although he could have had rights to it if he had wished. Edison also built room sized horns for his acoustic phonograph recording machines believing (contrary to physics and empirical evidence) that this would somehow make those recordings significantly better. (The advent of the electronic amplifier ate Edison’s lunch in phonograph recording but Edison stayed acoustic to the bitter end.) In turn, Tesla ceded low-frequency alternating current technology to George Westinghouse believing THAT to be worthless. Tesla wanted to fill the air with radio frequency energy which would be free, not thinking about either the physics or the practical problems that would pose.

[esarlls3]

Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard, 9:53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0

[NormsRevenge]

Too bad he died childless and did not pass on his genes.

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Charlie Callas might be one candidate.

VVVuTttt VVVuTttt

[matthew fuller]

"Tesla wanted to fill the air with radio frequency energy which would be free, not thinking about either the physics or the practical problems that would pose."

The way I understood his intentions about electrical transmission was through the GROUND. I think that he even lit some lights on the other side of a river with underground transmission.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[matthew fuller]

"A global system for "the transmission of electrical energy without wires" dependant upon the high electrical conductivity of the earth was proposed by Nikola Tesla as early as 1904.[67]"

See wireless energy transfer, Wikipedia.