Tesla was right
08 Sep 2010, 8:44 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
Dalton_Man321 wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
Dalton_Man321 wrote:
Nikola Tesla - That guy who invented the plasma ball and made pretty lights.
Along with the AC electricity system all households today use, of course...
Nikola Tesla - That guy who invented the plasma ball and made pretty lights, and the electricity thing that powers the laptop I'm typing this on. The electrician version of Chuck Norris.
And radio. His assistant Marconi attempted to claim credit; the Supreme Court eventually found that Tesla's claim on the basic patents was superior, but by that time the name "Marconi" had become synonymous in the public mind with "wireless", because Tesla was lousy at self-promotion.
And remotely-controlled devices (in 1898, he couldn't interest the US Navy in his demonstration of a radio-controlled boat; his plan was to load such a boat with explosives, pilot it remotely to a point next to an enemy craft, and detonate it, sinking the enemy. Apparently, the navy just could not conceive at the time of warfare not conducted with great hulking cannon).
And beamed-power devices. Reportedly, Tesla's entire Colorado ranch was powered by a central tower broadcasting electrical power to the whole place. He also had a scheme to electrify the entire planet, so that if you needed power all you needed to do was sink a metal pole into the ground and attach one of his converters; the project fell by the wayside when its primary funder, J. P. Morgan, realized that there was no practical way to charge customers for the electricity used.
And... you know, it might be quicker to list those devices employing electricity and radio waves that Tesla didn't invent...
So, White Star line should of thanked Tesla?
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08 Sep 2010, 8:58 pm
One cannot power the entire earth electrically from a single source. The iron core will dissipate the current flow. There was a lot about earth geology that Tesla did not know. And his scheme to transmit electric power wirelessly is extremely inefficient. Electrical energy, however, can be beamed by transforming into microwave emission transmitted as a tight beam. Broadcasting electric power is simply too inefficient to work.
Even so, Tesla was a genius, the father of A.C. power and the true inventor of practical radio transmission of data. The courts ruled that Tesla, rather than Marconi had precedence in 1942.
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