Lets not forget he was an obsessive compulsive individual, with a few hints of deeper neurosis on multiple levels.
Though some of his core concepts are sound his abstract rationality and practical experiments had no scientific value in the end. They amount to in the end parlor tricks.
Especially the remote power ideas which are more commonly referred to as near field power that exhibit triple exponent power loss over radiative emissions (which are only squared). I've heard the term in popular culture and in 'new wave' technologies referred to as evanescence coupling. The same inductive coupling that's been used in transformers for years...
Anyone claiming any different knows nothing about the science involved.
Lets not forget he was an obsessive compulsive individual, with a few hints of deeper neurosis on multiple levels.
Though some of his core concepts are sound his abstract rationality and practical experiments had no scientific value in the end. They amount to in the end parlor tricks.
Especially the remote power ideas which are more commonly referred to as near field power that exhibit triple exponent power loss over radiative emissions (which are only squared). I've heard the term in popular culture and in 'new wave' technologies referred to as evanescence coupling. The same inductive coupling that's been used in transformers for years...
Anyone claiming any different knows nothing about the science involved.
Sceadwian said:Though some of his core concepts are sound his abstract rationality and practical experiments had no scientific value in the end. They amount to in the end parlor tricks.
Nikola Tesla said:... man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct .... The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
tvtech, just cranky? Have you ever read anything about Tesla outside of that joke of an Oatmeal post? Oatmeal isn't journalistic, they make comics.. that's it, if you take that post seriously and want to idolize Tesla so be it, but it has nothing to do with reality!
It seems there is a growing group of people these days always ready to jump the gun and put a scientist or engineer down for his failures and personal life, completely negating the great accomplishments.
Tesla did some great work, and you can not deny that.
No one is denying that - but he also did a huge amount of absolute rubbish - but there seems a growing number of people who seem to revere everything he ever did, and claim that his failures were no such thing, and that it's just that modern science isn't clever enough to duplicate what he did.
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$850000 in one Week. Target met way before time.
For the lazy ones, it is here: https://www.electro-tech-online.com...ive-tesla-the-recognition-he-deserves.129227/. Scroll down and look for the pdf attachment that says TESLA. If it looks like a book, it most likely is one. Click on the book to download the whole thing.
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I happen to think he helped the whole world with his insistence about using AC over DC for the main power lines for homes and industry. There are very very few places in the world that use DC and that's good because we would all be much worse off it we had to pipe DC all over the country instead of AC, and we couldnt use transformers without a matching chopper circuit. This alone i think shows how he was a benefit to mankind.
Yes he did get rather strange later on in life but that's typical for his type of personality, and i dont think these problems should be the focal point of his career. I would bet that there are similar stories for other well known inventors too but they havent been exploited as much as this guy's has. Edison was quite a nasty guy for example and didnt care about anything but his own profits whereas Tesla i believe had an innate desire to help mankind. We didnt hear about Edison's dark side until years later after he was so glorified for his so called inventions. It's also interesting that Edison's major inventions are being slowly but surely phased out of existence.
We used to have the Edison complex right here in NJ and i was able to visit it long time ago before they moved it to Chicago. Very interesting stuff but it said nothing about the true personality and i have to say it was all very misleading as to who he was in reality.
When i read about Tesla i always get the impression he really wanted to help mankind more than profit from his inventions.
They hit the $1M mark!
Thank you for this. That is exactly how I feel, and I'm glad so many other people see it the same way I do
Hi,
When i read about Tesla i always get the impression he really wanted to help mankind more than profit from his inventions.
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