Posted on 01/07/2023 7:10:02 AM PST by EEGator
80 years ago today, the greatest electrical engineer ever passed away. Feel free to share any nerd comments, or arguments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Wish I had half his smarts.
Killed by the government?
I don’t know..
If Tesla were alive today he’d probably agree with me that that the best thing about the Iron Man movie is the background music played by AC/DC. LOL
Was he croat or serb, the world will never know.
He represents both genius and an early example of an inventor being screwed. Badly.
Aside from the technical details of Tesla’s mind, his experience is a life lesson for those paying attention.
Born: July 10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire, (modern-day Croatia)
Died: January 7, 1943, New York City, U.S.
Highly unlikely that he was killed by the government.
I think he said Serb, but he was very proud to become an US citizen.
Badly screwed.
He was an unbeliever in Consensus Science, so it happily ruined and ignored him.
Such heresy faces the same punishment in the Woke World of today, where Science has become Superstition and state-sanctioned ideology.
He ripped up his agreement with Westinghouse that would have paid a ridiculous amount of money.
Tesla likely had some type of legitimate mental illness.
Pearls disgusted him, he wanted things divisible by three, and seemed to prefer pigeons to humans...
Still a genius that helped shape our country.
2nd greatest.
James Clerk Maxwell was the greatest and without whom Tesla would never have done anything of note.
Maxwell unified the theories of electricity and magnetism; he also advanced Kinetic gas theory, took the first color photograph, developed ways to analyze stress in a structure, and even laid the foundations of cybernetics. Predicted how the rings of Saturn were made of and how they are stable. Maxwell made his prediction in 1859
My wife and I both have a great respect for him and he literally made the world a better place.
Not my intent to assign fault or blame.
He got screwed. Again, life lesson.
Can anyone recommend a book about his life that is fairly straight forward?
Theory vs practice.
As usual, we disagree on essentially everything in life.
Prodigal Son by John O’Neill
A Man out of Time by Margaret Cheney
The Wizard of Electricity by Kent
There’s more...
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