Nikola Tesla
- The Forgotten Father of Today & Tomorrow
The life and work of Nikola Tesla is in the focus
of interest above all for his ingenuity and contribution to world
science and engineering. Had the alternating electric current system
been the only thing he ever invented, the name of Nikola Tesla would
still remain permanently inscribed on the list of the most renowned
people whose work has been of pivotal importance for the development
of civilization.
Moreover, knowing that Tesla invented or theoretically
anticipated almost all technical devices people are using today,
with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution,
his role becomes immeasurable.
Tesla wrote more than 1800 patents, most now “missing”.
See 135 Tesla patents. Tesla
gave us alternating current and the first hydro-electric dam powered
from Niagara Falls When Nikola Tesla discovered the electron, he
wrote to J.J. Thomson in 1891 saying his experiments prove the existence
of charged particles ("small charged balls"). After Tesla
died in 1943 the Supreme Court of the USA overturned Marconi's patent
of modern radio in favour of Nikola Tesla. The
Truth.
“Any intelligent fool
can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the
opposite direction”.
That was a quote from Albert Einstein pictured
here with Tesla. Tesla had nothing but contempt for the "physics"
of Einstein. He absolutely believed in the ether and the possibility
of taking electricity out of this ether without splitting
the atom and causing dangerous radiation. Tesla didn't think
about splitting these atoms to obtain enormous power in such
a potentially hazardous manner.
He knew that his system of wireless transmission harnessed to
Niagara Falls was a safe template to be copied again and again
to provide all the safe, clean power that was necessary to run
the modern industrial world.
At the beginning of the war, the US government desperately searched
for a way to detect German submarines. Thomas Edison was put in
charge of the search and when Tesla proposed the use of energy
waves ( what we know today as radar) to detect these ships, Edison
rejected Tesla's idea as completely ludicrous.
A Few of Tesla’s Inventions:
1. Tesla Coil & auto ignition system
2. AC induction engine (no carbon brushes)
3. Solar powered engines
4. Transmitting Power without Wires (called WiTriciity in
2007)
5. Seeing by Telephone and wirelessly (TV & Radio)
6. A Means of Employing Electricity as a Fertiliser
7. Fluorescent Lighting & neon lights.
8. Specialized lighting and a precursor to the X-ray machine
9. Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft
10. Terrestrial Stationary Waves
11. Robotics
12. Meters
13. Valvular Conduit
14. Earthquake Machine
15. Magnifying transmitter
16. Laser
17. Death Rays
18. Thermo-Electric Power
19. X-Ray machine
20. Radar
21. Electrotherapeutics and Biotronics
22. Computing Logic Circuits/Remote Control/Communications
23. Bladeless Turbine
24. Solar Tower
Worlds First Hydro-Electric Powerhouse
At Niagra Falls, Tesla was the first to successfully
harness the mechanical energy of flowing water. Change it to electrical
energy, and distribute it to distant homes and industries. His revolutionary
model set the standard for hydroelectric power as we know it to
day. Since his childhood, Tesla had dreamed of harnessing the power
of the great natural wonder. And in late 1893, his dream became
a reality, when Westinghouse was awarded the contract to create
the powerhouse. It was the most likely power source for Tesla's
wirelessly powered car.... think about that..
In the past NASA used a 12 mile long wire, it charged
freely from the potential electricity in the area above the magnetosphere.
Tesla knew this, and NASA used his research to launch STS 75.. The
tether incident of STS 75 launched in 1997 proved the fact that
electricity can be produced in abundance for free, unexpectedly
it produced many, many more times the voltage than was originally
expected, and calculated. All this power was free energy, the technology
was theorized by the man of light himself, Nicola Tesla.
"All matter comes from a primary substance,
the luminiferous ether," stated Nikola Tesla. He sensed the
universe was "composed of a symphony of alternating currents
with the harmonies played on a vast range of octaves,". To
explore the whole range of electrical vibration, he sensed, would
bring him closer to an understanding of the cosmic symphony. Tesla
understood that the cosmic symphony is resonance. Nothing exists
in the Universe that does not have harmonic vibration.
Tesla Taps the Cosmos Tesla’s patents in
this direction are based on alleged discovery by him that when cosmic
rays or radiations are permitted to fall upon or impinge against
an insulated conducting body P connected to one terminal of a condenser,
such as C in Fig. 4, while the other terminal of the condenser is
made by independent means to receive or carry away electricity,
a current flows into the condenser so long as the insulated body
P is exposed to such rays; so that an indefinite, yet measurable,
accumulation of electrical energy in the condenser takes place.
This energy, after a suitable time interval, during which the rays
are allowed to act in the manner aforementioned, may manifest itself
in a powerful discharge, which may be utilized for the operation
or control of a mechanical or electrical device consisting of an
instrument R, to be operated and a circuit-controlling device d
(Fig. 4).
Tesla bases his theory on the fact that the earth
is negatively charged with electricity and he considers same to
act as a vast reservoir of such a current. By the action of cosmic
rays on the plate P there is an accumulation of electrical energy
in the condenser C. A feeble current is flows continuously into
the condenser and in a short time it becomes charged to a relatively
high potential, even to the point of rupturing the dielectric. This
accumulated charge can then, of course, be used to actuate any device
desired.
An illustration of a proposed form of apparatus which may be used
in carrying out his discovery is referred to in Fig.4.
Centre to Tesla’s Letterhead was the
antenna of Tesla's "World's radio station" which he constructed
in Long Island in the vicinity of New York, it testifies his farsightedness
and ingenuity. His idea was that this station, build in 1900 should
by remote wireless control transmit throughout the world not only
the news but music and photographs as well. However, that great
plan could not be carried out because when it was realised free
unmetered energy could be made available to everyone Tesla’s
funding was terminated and his tower was destroyed. In 1960 the
International Commission for Electrical Engineering, at its session
in Philadelphia decided that the unit of magnetic induction is to
be universally called “Tesla".
Tesla had a several friends including possibly only one
scientist, Elmer Sperry and several non-scientific friends
the closest of which was probably Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne
Clemens) pictured here with one of Tesla’s lamps in
his laboratory.
Electrotherapeutics - Nikola Tesla discovered
that alternating currents of high frequency (10kHz or greater) could
pass over the body without harm. In fact, levels of electrical energy
that would prove fatal at a reduced frequency could be tolerated
when the frequency was above l0kHz. During his lecture before the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) at Columbia College
on May 20, 1891, Tesla predicted that medical use would be made
of this phenomenon. A year later, d'Arsonval independently reported
similar observations on the physiological effects of high frequency
currents before the Society of Biology in Paris. In early 1892,
Tesla met d'Arsonval on a lecture tour of France where Tesla was
pleasantly surprised to find that d'Arsonval used his oscillators
to investigate the physiological effects of high frequency currents.
It is clear from Nikola Tesla's lectures and publications
beginning in 1891 that he was the first to discover that radio frequency
(rf) currents could be employed safely for therapeutic benefits,
Tesla also suggested that rf currents could be used for other medical
purposes--the sterilization of wounds, as an anesthesia, for stimulation
of the skin, and to produce surgical incisions. As Patton H. McGinley,
Ph.D., of the Emory Cancer Clinic has stated: History has not been
kind to Tesla in the sense that the credit for all of the pioneering
work in the field of electrotherapy has gone almost exclusively
to d'Arsonval.
Logic Circuits/Remote Control/Communications.
Tesla was a pathfinder in rf communication and
communication theory. In the early 1890s, Tesla entertained the
scientist and general public alike with his demonstrations of high
frequency, high voltage experiments. This type of electricity was
virtually unheard of, indeed, even unimaginable, before Tesla developed
the Tesla coil and demonstrated it before the IEE at an 1891 lecture
in London, England.
Tesla's experiments with high frequency, high voltage
electricity continued throughout the decade. During this period,
he invented several types of lights based on this unique power source.
In fact, he utilized fluorescent lighting in his laboratory thirty
years before it was to be in general use in industry. Perhaps it
is because of these experiments, Tesla believed that wireless power
was possible!
In 1898, at Madison Square Gardens he publicly
demonstrated a remote control submersible boat. This clearly established
that Tesla was a man years-decades-ahead of conventional science
and technology! In this amazing feat of engineering, he incorporated
the use AND gates (logic circuits), digital communication, electromechanical
interfacing (robotics), and radio--all of which were virtually undeveloped
(and unimaginable) at the time! Despite the Madison Square demonstration,
the Navy turned its back on Tesla's invention at the time because
it was too advanced for them to comprehend.
Wireless Transmission of Power
Tesla considered his crowning achievement to be
the wireless transmission of power at Colorado Springs in 1899.
In 1900, upon his return to New York, Century Magazine published
Tesla's article, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy which was
amply illustrated with photos from Tesla's Colorado Springs lab.
Tesla's work in Colorado Springs allowed
him to return to New York to pursue the next phase of the
wireless technology development... the construction of a full
scale transmitter at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. To do this
required immense amounts of money... money which Tesla did
not have at the time. To get the money, Tesla approached the
one person in New York who would have the sums necessary...
J. Pierpont Morgan.
In The Problem of Increasing Human
Energy, Tesla laid out his vision for the evolution of power production
and the furtherance of mankind. It is quite a remarkable philosophical
work in that it gives us deep insight to Tesla's thought formation
processes. Perhaps when J.P. Morgan read this fine essay, he realized
how dangerous Tesla was to the status quo and decided to fund Tesla's
work in order to control the direction that Tesla's work took.
Unfortunately, Tesla's funds ran out halfway through
the project and the Morgan interests refused to further fund Tesla's
work. Tesla was forced into bankruptcy and his beloved Wardenclyffe
tower was destroyed on the pretext of "national security!"
Bankrupted and cut off from funds, Tesla nevertheless continued
his work in a new field... mechanical engineering.
Means of Employing Electricity as a Fertiliser
Not the least ingenious of Tesla's great schemes
is was an invention to fertilise impoverished land by electricity.
No longer would it be necessary for the farmer to spend half his
year's receipts in purchasing fertilisers, he only had to buy an
electric fertilizer machine of his own. Dumping a few loads of loose
earth into the fertiliser machine, it comes out at the other end,
ready to be spread over the surface of the impoverished ground,
where it will insure for the following season the luxurious crop
of the virgin soil.
The explanation which Tesla gave of just why
so simple a piece of work should be productive of such wonderful
results is not difficult to comprehend. " Everyone knows,"
said Tesla, " that the constituent of a fertiliser which makes
the ground productive is its nitrogen. Everybody knows also that
nitrogen forms four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere above
that piece of unfertile land. This being the case it occurred to
me: 'Where is the sense in the farmer buying expensive nitrogen
when he has it free of cost at his own door? All the agriculturist
needs is some method by which he can separate some of this nitrogen
from the atmosphere above the ground and place it on the surface.'
And it was to discover this means that I set to work."
As far as the non-technical eye can perceive, the
working model of the electric fertiliser consists of nothing but
an upright copper cylinder with a removable top, with a spiral coil
of wire running throughout the length of the cylinder. Through the
bottom of the cylinder are two wires, which connect with a specially
constructed dynamo. A quantity of loose earth, treated by a secret
chemical preparation in liquid form, is shovelled into the cylinder,
a high frequency electric current is passed through the confined
atmosphere; the oxygen and hydrogen are thus expelled, and the nitrogen
which remains is absorbed into the loose earth. There is thus produced
as strong a fertiliser for a nominal price at home, rather than
purchase at a large cost miles and miles away.
Tesla Bladeless Turbine
In an effort to return to profitability, Tesla
developed a new type of bladeless pump and turbine that would have
reduced the conventional pumps and turbines to the scrap heap. His
initial work at the Watertown Power Station in New York indicated
that his method could take advantage of the latent power of vaporization
by using saturated steam. Later, he worked with Allis-Chalmers engineers
in Milwaukee to develop the turbine. However, internal friction
led to the disruption of the project and it was abandoned. Scientists
today continue to scour through his notes. Many of his far-flung
theories are just now being proven by our top scientists. For example,
Tesla’s bladeless disk turbine engine, when coupled with modern
materials, is proving to be the most efficient motor ever designed.
Teslas 1901 patented experiments with cryogenic liquids and electricity
provide the foundation for modern superconductors. He talked about
experiments that suggested particles with fractional charges of
an electron - something that scientists in 1977 finally discovered
- quarks!
When Albert Einstein turned the world upside down with his theory
of relativity, the only one who opposed him was Tesla. According
to Tesla, Einstein’s relativity wasn’t sufficiently
relative. He proved to Einstein that he could create velocities
that are much greater than the speed of light. He considered Constant
C the basis, and not the fastest velocity in the universe.
HAARP
There are three things to think about Tesla
when talking about this particular project. The first ... we should
think of Tesla every time we look at a microwave oven; again the
radiation frequency of the microwave oven and the concept
of the microwave oven was Tesla's.
The second thing is, it is a frequency transformer.
Tesla, with the Tesla coil, changes one frequency to another frequency.
What we are doing up there, we're taking at 5 megahertz a frequency
which radiates in the ground and we transform it into 1 hertz,
5 hertz, 10 hertz, or whatever it is. So we have really a frequency
transformer similar to what Tesla was thinking. Third, and most
important, once we create the waves they propagate exactly the
way Tesla conceived it through the earth ionosphere waveguide.
(Source: Selections from
an interview with Dr. Dennis Papadopoulos Professor of Physics,
University of Maryland Senior Science Advisor, H.A.A.R.P (High
Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)
Tesla was one of the world's most original and
greatest inventors and thinkers, but because he was so original
and out of his time, his genius was mistaken for insanity and
science fiction. Tesla technology is still promising, it continues
to run up against a wall of "organized opposition".
Tesla was a “true” inventor in that he did not merely
improve on existing technology, but instead he had a tendency
to create entire new industries with his radical ideas. Although
much of Tesla's work remains to be reconstructed, he will at least
be an active topic of discussion well into the 21st century.
