Nikola Tesla
The genius physicist, engineer, inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the village of Smiliany, Austrian Empire, now it is the territory of Croatia. He died on January 7, 1943, in New York, USA.
The first half of the life of Nikola Tesla (XIX century)
Project Wondercliff
The second half of the life of Nikola Tesla (XX century)
Nikola Tesla's inventions and scientific works
Dates of the life of Nikola Tesla
The death of Nikola Tesla
Perpetuation of the memory of Nikola Tesla
Modern application of Tesla's ideas
10 amazing predictions
According to some testimonies
Five lessons we can learn
Project Wondercliff
The second half of the life of Nikola Tesla (XX century)
Nikola Tesla's inventions and scientific works
Dates of the life of Nikola Tesla
The death of Nikola Tesla
Perpetuation of the memory of Nikola Tesla
Modern application of Tesla's ideas
10 amazing predictions
According to some testimonies
Five lessons we can learn
Attitude towards science and people
His greatest love was science for the betterment of humanity.
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
The first half of the life of Nikola Tesla
(XIX century)
Tesla grew up in Austria-Hungary, and in his mature years mainly worked in France and the USA Tesla is widely known for his scientific and revolutionary contribution to the study of the properties of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work provided the basis for the invention and development of many modern AC devices, polyphase systems and an electric motor, which made it possible to accomplish the so-called second stage of the industrial revolution. Nikola Tesla is known as a supporter of aetheric physics: his numerous experiments and experiments are known to show the presence of aether as a special form of matter that can be used in technology.
The unit for measuring the density of magnetic flux (magnetic induction) is named after N. Tesla. Among the many awards of the scientist are the medals of E. Cresson, J. Scott, T. Edison.
Contemporaries-biographers considered Tesla "the man who invented the 20th century" and the "patron saint" of ether and modern electricity. After demonstrating radio and winning the War of the Currents, Tesla was widely recognized as an outstanding electrical engineer and inventor. Tesla's early work paved the way for modern electrical engineering. His early discoveries were innovative. In the United States, Tesla's fame could compete with any inventor or scientist in history or popular culture.
The Tesla family lived in the village of Smilyany, 6 km from the city of Gospic, the main city of the historical province of Lika, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father - Milutin Tesla (1819-1879), priest of the Sremsk diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serb. Mother - Dahlia (Juka) Tesla (1822-1892), nee Mandich, was the daughter of a priest. On June 28 (July 10), 1856, the fourth child, Nikola, appeared in the family. In total, the family had five children: three daughters - Milka, Angelina and Maritsa and two sons - Nikola and his older brother Dane. When Nicola was five years old, his brother died after falling from a horse.
The unit for measuring the density of magnetic flux (magnetic induction) is named after N. Tesla. Among the many awards of the scientist are the medals of E. Cresson, J. Scott, T. Edison.
Contemporaries-biographers considered Tesla "the man who invented the 20th century" and the "patron saint" of ether and modern electricity. After demonstrating radio and winning the War of the Currents, Tesla was widely recognized as an outstanding electrical engineer and inventor. Tesla's early work paved the way for modern electrical engineering. His early discoveries were innovative. In the United States, Tesla's fame could compete with any inventor or scientist in history or popular culture.
The Tesla family lived in the village of Smilyany, 6 km from the city of Gospic, the main city of the historical province of Lika, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father - Milutin Tesla (1819-1879), priest of the Sremsk diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serb. Mother - Dahlia (Juka) Tesla (1822-1892), nee Mandich, was the daughter of a priest. On June 28 (July 10), 1856, the fourth child, Nikola, appeared in the family. In total, the family had five children: three daughters - Milka, Angelina and Maritsa and two sons - Nikola and his older brother Dane. When Nicola was five years old, his brother died after falling from a horse.
Nikola finished the first grade of elementary school in Smiliany. In 1862, shortly after the death of Dane, the father of the family was promoted to dignity, and the Tesla family moved to Gospic, where Nikola completed the remaining three classes of primary school, and then the three-year lower real gymnasium, which he graduated in 1870. In the autumn of the same year, Nikola entered the Higher Real School in the city of Karlovac. He lived in the house of his aunt, father's cousin, Stanka Baranovich.
In July 1873, Nicola received his matriculation certificate. Despite his father's instructions, Nikola returned to his family in Gospic, where there was an epidemic of cholera, and immediately became infected, however, it is not completely clear whether it was actually cholera. The doctors believed that his days were numbered. For a moment, coming to his senses, Nikola asked his father to allow him to continue his studies as an engineer, promising that if he received consent, he would "heal himself, because he would find the will to live." The father, who had lost all hope, finally agreed - and then, to the surprise of the doctors, the unexpected really happened: Tesla recovered in a few days. The illness lasted 9 months. The recovered Nikola was soon to be called up for a three-year service in the Austro-Hungarian army. Relatives considered him not healthy enough and hid in the mountains. He returned back only at the beginning of the summer of 1875.
In July 1873, Nicola received his matriculation certificate. Despite his father's instructions, Nikola returned to his family in Gospic, where there was an epidemic of cholera, and immediately became infected, however, it is not completely clear whether it was actually cholera. The doctors believed that his days were numbered. For a moment, coming to his senses, Nikola asked his father to allow him to continue his studies as an engineer, promising that if he received consent, he would "heal himself, because he would find the will to live." The father, who had lost all hope, finally agreed - and then, to the surprise of the doctors, the unexpected really happened: Tesla recovered in a few days. The illness lasted 9 months. The recovered Nikola was soon to be called up for a three-year service in the Austro-Hungarian army. Relatives considered him not healthy enough and hid in the mountains. He returned back only at the beginning of the summer of 1875.
Milutin Tesla, Serbian priest,
Nikola's father
Nikola's father
Birth certificate
Nikola Tesla
(Serbian-Slavic Cyrillic)
Nikola Tesla
(Serbian-Slavic Cyrillic)
In the same year, Nikola entered the Higher Technical School in Graz (now the Graz Technical University, where Professor Stefan Marinov taught until 1997) and began to study electrical engineering. Observing the work of the Gramm machine at lectures on electrical engineering, Tesla came to the idea of the imperfection of DC machines, but Professor Jacob Peschl sharply criticized his ideas, giving a lecture on the impracticability of using alternating current in electric motors before the whole course. In his third year, Tesla became interested in gambling, losing large sums of money at cards. In his memoirs, Tesla wrote that he was motivated by "not only the desire to have fun, but also failure to achieve the intended goal." He always distributed the winnings to the losers, for which he soon became known as an eccentric. In the end, he lost so badly that his mother had to borrow from her friend. Since then, he never played cards again.
Nikola's father died on April 17 (29), 1879.
Nikola's father died on April 17 (29), 1879.
Tesla got a job as a teacher in a real gymnasium in Gospic, the one in which he studied. Work in Gospic did not suit him. The family had little money, and only thanks to financial assistance from his two uncles, Petar and Pavel Mandic, young Tesla was able to leave for Prague in January 1880, where he entered the philosophy faculty of the Prague University. He studied for only one semester and was forced to look for work.
Until 1882, Tesla worked as an electrical engineer for the government telegraph company in Budapest, which at the time was involved in laying telephone lines and building a central telephone exchange. In February 1882, Tesla figured out how to use a phenomenon in an electric motor, later called a rotating magnetic field.
Until 1882, Tesla worked as an electrical engineer for the government telegraph company in Budapest, which at the time was involved in laying telephone lines and building a central telephone exchange. In February 1882, Tesla figured out how to use a phenomenon in an electric motor, later called a rotating magnetic field.
Working in a telegraph company did not allow Tesla to carry out his plans to create an alternating current electric motor. In late 1882 he took a job with the Continental Edison Company in Paris.
One of the most significant works of the company was the construction of a power station for the railway station in Strasbourg. In early 1883, the company dispatched Nicola to Strasbourg to solve a number of operational problems the company faced while installing lighting equipment at the new railway station.
In his spare time, Tesla worked on the manufacture of a model of an asynchronous electric motor, and in 1883 he demonstrated the operation of the motor in the city hall of Strasbourg.
By the spring of 1884, work at the Strasbourg railway station was completed, and Tesla returned to Paris expecting a $ 25,000 bonus from the company. Having tried to get the bonuses due to him, he realized that he would not receive this money and, offended, resigned.
One of the most significant works of the company was the construction of a power station for the railway station in Strasbourg. In early 1883, the company dispatched Nicola to Strasbourg to solve a number of operational problems the company faced while installing lighting equipment at the new railway station.
In his spare time, Tesla worked on the manufacture of a model of an asynchronous electric motor, and in 1883 he demonstrated the operation of the motor in the city hall of Strasbourg.
By the spring of 1884, work at the Strasbourg railway station was completed, and Tesla returned to Paris expecting a $ 25,000 bonus from the company. Having tried to get the bonuses due to him, he realized that he would not receive this money and, offended, resigned.
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N. Tesla with "The Theory of Natural Philosophy:" by Rujer Boschkovich against the background of the HF transformer coil in his laboratory on Houston Street
One of the first biographers of the inventor BN Rzhonsnitsky states: "His first thought was to go to St. Petersburg, since many important discoveries and inventions for the development of electrical engineering were made in Russia in those years. The names of Pavel Nikolaevich Yablochkov, Dmitry Alexandrovich Lachinov, Vladimir Nikolaevich Chikolev and others were well known to electricians of all countries, their articles were published in the most widespread electrical engineering journals in the world and, undoubtedly, were also known to Tesla. " But at the last moment, one of the Continental Company administrators, Charles Batchelor, persuaded Nicola to go to the United States instead of Russia. Bechlor wrote a letter of introduction to his friend Edison:
"It would be an unforgivable mistake to give such a talent the opportunity to leave for Russia. You will still be grateful to me, Mr. Edison, for the fact that I did not regret several hours to convince this young man to give up the idea of going to St. Petersburg. I know two great people - one of them you, the second is this young man. "
For the first time, this note is mentioned by the first major biographer of Tesla, John O'Neill. The documented text of the note has not yet been published.
"It would be an unforgivable mistake to give such a talent the opportunity to leave for Russia. You will still be grateful to me, Mr. Edison, for the fact that I did not regret several hours to convince this young man to give up the idea of going to St. Petersburg. I know two great people - one of them you, the second is this young man. "
For the first time, this note is mentioned by the first major biographer of Tesla, John O'Neill. The documented text of the note has not yet been published.
On July 6, 1884, Tesla arrived in New York. He took a job with Thomas Edison Machine Works as a repair engineer for DC motors and generators.
Edison perceived Tesla's new ideas rather coldly and more and more openly expressed disapproval of the direction of the inventor's personal research. In the spring of 1885, Edison promised Tesla $ 50,000 (at that time the amount was approximately equivalent to $ 1 million today) if he could constructively improve the DC electric machines invented by Edison. Nicola went to work actively and soon introduced 24 variants of the Edison machine, a new switch and regulator, significantly improving performance. Approving all the improvements, Edison, known for his shamelessness, refused Tesla in response to a question about the reward, noting that the emigrant did not yet understand American humor very well. Insulted Tesla immediately resigned.
After working for only a year at Edison's company, Tesla gained fame in the business community. Upon learning of his dismissal, a group of electrical engineers suggested that Nicola organize her own company related to electric lighting. Tesla's projects on the use of alternating current did not inspire them, and then they changed the original proposal, limiting only to a proposal to develop a draft arc lamp for street lighting. A year later, the project was ready. Instead of money, the entrepreneurs offered the inventor a part of the shares of the company created to operate the new lamp. This option did not suit the inventor, but the company, in response, tried to get rid of him, trying to slander and defame Tesla.
From the fall of 1886 to the spring, the young inventor was forced to interrupt in ancillary work. He was busy digging ditches, "he slept where he had to, and ate what he found." During this period, he became friends with a similarly positioned engineer Brown, who was able to persuade several of his acquaintances to provide a small financial support to Tesla. In April 1887, Tesla Arc Light Company, created with this money, began to arrange street lighting with new arc lamps. Soon the prospects of the company were proved by large orders from many cities in the United States. For the inventor himself, the company was only a means to achieve the cherished goal.
For the office of his company in New York, Tesla rented a house on Fifth Avenue near the building occupied by Edison's company. Between the two companies, a fierce competition began, known in America as the War of Currents. Edison launched a massive information campaign against AC, claiming it was a life-threatening threat. Edison turned to black PR, publicly demonstrating the killing of animals with alternating current. In addition, at about the same time, a man named Pope was killed by a broken transformer in his basement; the incident was widely reported by the press. Finally, in 1887, Edison-funded engineer Harold Brown proposed the idea of electrocuting criminals - of course, by «dangerous» variables rather than by «safe» constant.
Tesla said of Thomas Edison: "If Edison needed to find a needle in a haystack, he wouldn't waste time identifying the most common location. He would immediately, with the feverish adrenaline of the bee, begin to examine straws at a time until he found his way. His methods were extremely ineffective: he could spend an enormous amount of time and energy and not achieve anything unless he was helped by a happy accident. At first, I watched with sadness his work, realizing that a little creative knowledge and computation would save him thirty percent of the labor. But he had a genuine disdain for book image and mathematical knowledge, trusting his innovator's instincts and the common sense of the American."
In July 1888, the famous American industrialist George Westinghouse bought more than 40 patents from Tesla, paying an average of $ 25,000 each. Westinghouse also hired the inventor to act as a consultant at factories in Pittsburgh that developed industrial designs for AC machines. The work did not bring satisfaction to the inventor, hindering the emergence of new ideas. Despite the persuasion of Westinghouse, Tesla returned to his laboratory in New York a year later.
Soon after returning from Pittsburgh, Nikola Tesla traveled to Europe, where he attended the 1889 World's Fair in Paris; visited his mother and sister Maritsa.
In 1888-1895 Tesla was engaged in research of magnetic fields and high frequencies in his laboratory. These years were the most fruitful: he received many patents. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers invited Tesla to give a lecture about his work. On May 20, 1892, he addressed an audience that included the prominent electrical engineers of the day, and was a great success.
On March 13, 1895, a fire broke out in the Fifth Avenue laboratory. The building burned to the ground, destroying the very latest achievements of the inventor - a mechanical oscillator, a new method of electric lighting, a new method of wireless transmission of messages over long distances, and a method for studying the nature of electricity. Tesla himself said that he could restore all his discoveries from memory.
Nikola Tesla in a laboratory in Colorado Springs. Early 1900s (double exposure photo)
Financial assistance to the inventor was provided by the Niagara Falls Company. Thanks to Edward Adams, Tesla got $ 100,000 to equip a new laboratory. In the fall, research resumed at a new address: 46 Houston Street. At the end of 1896, Tesla achieved a radio signal transmission over a distance of 30 miles (48 km).
According to Tesla's assumption, the highest intensity of standing waves from Colorado Springs reached near the island of Amsterdam in the Indian Ocean.
In May 1899, at the invitation of the local electric company, Tesla moved to the resort town of Colorado Springs in Colorado. The town was located on a vast plateau at an altitude of 2000 m. Strong thunderstorms were not uncommon in these places.
In Colorado Springs, Tesla set up a small laboratory. This time the sponsor was the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, who allocated $ 30,000 for the research. To study thunderstorms, Tesla designed a special device, which is a transformer, one end of the primary winding of which was grounded, and the other was connected to a metal ball on a rod extending upward. A sensitive self-adjusting device connected to a recording device was connected to the secondary winding. This device allowed Nikola Tesla to study changes in the Earth's potential, including the effect of standing electromagnetic waves caused by lightning discharges in the Earth's atmosphere (after more than five decades, this effect was studied in detail and later became known as the "Schumann Resonance"). Observations led the inventor to the idea of the possibility of transmitting electricity without wires over long distances.
Tesla directed his next experiment to study the possibility of self-creation of a standing electromagnetic wave. In addition to a variety of induction coils and other equipment, he designed a "booster transmitter". On the huge base of the transformer, the turns of the primary winding were wound. The secondary winding was connected to a 60-meter mast and ended with a copper ball of 1-meter diameter. When an alternating voltage of several thousand volts was passed through the primary coil, a current with a voltage of several million volts and a frequency of up to 150 thousand hertz arose in the secondary coil.
During the experiment, lightning-like discharges emanating from a metal ball were recorded. The length of some discharges reached almost 4.5 meters, and thunder could be heard at a distance of up to 24 km. The first run of the experiment was interrupted by a burned-out generator at a power plant in Colorado Springs, which was the source of current for the primary winding of the "booster transmitter". Tesla was forced to stop experimenting and independently repair the failed generator. The experiment was continued after a week.
Based on the experiment, Tesla concluded that the device allowed him to generate standing waves that propagated spherically from the transmitter, and then converged with increasing intensity at a diametrically opposite point of the globe, somewhere near the islands of Amsterdam and Saint-Paul in the Indian Ocean.
Nikola Tesla recorded his notes and observations from experiments in the laboratory in Colorado Springs in a diary, which was later published under the title "Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900".
In the fall of 1899, Tesla returned to New York.
According to Tesla's assumption, the highest intensity of standing waves from Colorado Springs reached near the island of Amsterdam in the Indian Ocean.
In May 1899, at the invitation of the local electric company, Tesla moved to the resort town of Colorado Springs in Colorado. The town was located on a vast plateau at an altitude of 2000 m. Strong thunderstorms were not uncommon in these places.
In Colorado Springs, Tesla set up a small laboratory. This time the sponsor was the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, who allocated $ 30,000 for the research. To study thunderstorms, Tesla designed a special device, which is a transformer, one end of the primary winding of which was grounded, and the other was connected to a metal ball on a rod extending upward. A sensitive self-adjusting device connected to a recording device was connected to the secondary winding. This device allowed Nikola Tesla to study changes in the Earth's potential, including the effect of standing electromagnetic waves caused by lightning discharges in the Earth's atmosphere (after more than five decades, this effect was studied in detail and later became known as the "Schumann Resonance"). Observations led the inventor to the idea of the possibility of transmitting electricity without wires over long distances.
Tesla directed his next experiment to study the possibility of self-creation of a standing electromagnetic wave. In addition to a variety of induction coils and other equipment, he designed a "booster transmitter". On the huge base of the transformer, the turns of the primary winding were wound. The secondary winding was connected to a 60-meter mast and ended with a copper ball of 1-meter diameter. When an alternating voltage of several thousand volts was passed through the primary coil, a current with a voltage of several million volts and a frequency of up to 150 thousand hertz arose in the secondary coil.
During the experiment, lightning-like discharges emanating from a metal ball were recorded. The length of some discharges reached almost 4.5 meters, and thunder could be heard at a distance of up to 24 km. The first run of the experiment was interrupted by a burned-out generator at a power plant in Colorado Springs, which was the source of current for the primary winding of the "booster transmitter". Tesla was forced to stop experimenting and independently repair the failed generator. The experiment was continued after a week.
Based on the experiment, Tesla concluded that the device allowed him to generate standing waves that propagated spherically from the transmitter, and then converged with increasing intensity at a diametrically opposite point of the globe, somewhere near the islands of Amsterdam and Saint-Paul in the Indian Ocean.
Nikola Tesla recorded his notes and observations from experiments in the laboratory in Colorado Springs in a diary, which was later published under the title "Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900".
In the fall of 1899, Tesla returned to New York.
Project Wondercliffe
Project Wadercliff Radiant Tower
60 km north of New York on Long Island, Nikola Tesla acquired a plot of land bordering the possession of Charles Warden. The plot with an area of 0.8 km² was located at a considerable distance from the settlements. Here Tesla planned to build a laboratory and a science town. By his order, the architect V. Grow developed a project for a radio station - a 47-meter wooden frame tower with a copper hemisphere at the top. The construction of such a structure made of wood gave rise to many difficulties: due to the massive hemisphere, the center of gravity of the building shifted upward, depriving the structure of stability. With difficulty, we managed to find a construction company that took on the project. The construction of the tower was completed in 1902. Tesla settled in a small cottage nearby.
As part of the project, the same towers were to be installed in
Amsterdam, China and at the Poles of the World. In the summer of 1903,
Midnight has passed the test run of the only tower in Long Island.
This is what eyewitnesses describe this experiment. "Blindingly bright strands
More than a hundred miles of electrical plasma connected the spherical
The dome of the tower with the sky. So the night turned into a day.
All the people in the street were radiating a light blue mystical
The flames... We seemed like ghosts to ourselves." Journalists wrote that
He lit up a sky thousands of miles above the ocean.
As part of the project, the same towers were to be installed in
Amsterdam, China and at the Poles of the World. In the summer of 1903,
Midnight has passed the test run of the only tower in Long Island.
This is what eyewitnesses describe this experiment. "Blindingly bright strands
More than a hundred miles of electrical plasma connected the spherical
The dome of the tower with the sky. So the night turned into a day.
All the people in the street were radiating a light blue mystical
The flames... We seemed like ghosts to ourselves." Journalists wrote that
He lit up a sky thousands of miles above the ocean.
The production of the necessary equipment was delayed, because the industrialist John Pierpont Morgan (1903) who funded it canceled the contract after he learned that instead of practical goals for the development of electric lighting, Tesla planned to research the wireless transmission of electricity. Upon learning of Morgan's termination of funding for the inventor's projects, other industrialists also did not want to deal with him. Tesla was forced to stop construction, close the laboratory and dismiss the staff. Paying off creditors, Tesla was forced to sell the land. The tower turned out to be abandoned and stood until 1917, when the federal authorities suspected that German spies were using it for their own purposes. Tesla's unfinished project was blown up.
The second half of the life of Nikola Tesla
(XX century)
(XX century)
After 1900, Tesla received many other patents for inventions in various fields of technology (electric meter, frequency meter, a number of improvements in radio equipment, steam turbines, etc.)
In 1915, the newspapers wrote that Tesla was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Thomas Edison was announced at the same time. The inventors were asked to split the prize for two. According to some sources, the mutual animosity of the inventors led to the fact that both abandoned it, thus rejecting any possibility of sharing the prize. In fact, Edison was not offered a prize in 1915, although he was nominated for it, and Tesla was first nominated in 1937.
On May 18, 1917, Tesla was awarded the Edison Medal, although he himself resolutely refused to receive it.
In 1917, Tesla proposed the principle of operation of a device for radio detection of submarines.
In 1917-1926 Nikola Tesla worked in different cities of America. From the summer of 1917 to November 1918, he worked for the Pile National in Chicago; in 1919-1922 he was in Milwaukee with Ellis Chalmers; the last months of 1922 were spent at the Waltham Watch Company in Boston, and in 1925-1926 in Philadelphia, Tesla developed a gasoline turbine for the Budd Company.
In 1934, Tesla published an article in Scientific American, which caused a wide resonance in scientific circles, in which he examined in detail the limits of the possibility of obtaining ultrahigh voltages by charging spherical containers with static electricity from rubbing belts and expressed doubt that the discharges of this electrostatic generator could help in studies of the structure of the atomic nucleus.
In 1915, the newspapers wrote that Tesla was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Thomas Edison was announced at the same time. The inventors were asked to split the prize for two. According to some sources, the mutual animosity of the inventors led to the fact that both abandoned it, thus rejecting any possibility of sharing the prize. In fact, Edison was not offered a prize in 1915, although he was nominated for it, and Tesla was first nominated in 1937.
On May 18, 1917, Tesla was awarded the Edison Medal, although he himself resolutely refused to receive it.
In 1917, Tesla proposed the principle of operation of a device for radio detection of submarines.
In 1917-1926 Nikola Tesla worked in different cities of America. From the summer of 1917 to November 1918, he worked for the Pile National in Chicago; in 1919-1922 he was in Milwaukee with Ellis Chalmers; the last months of 1922 were spent at the Waltham Watch Company in Boston, and in 1925-1926 in Philadelphia, Tesla developed a gasoline turbine for the Budd Company.
In 1934, Tesla published an article in Scientific American, which caused a wide resonance in scientific circles, in which he examined in detail the limits of the possibility of obtaining ultrahigh voltages by charging spherical containers with static electricity from rubbing belts and expressed doubt that the discharges of this electrostatic generator could help in studies of the structure of the atomic nucleus.
1899 год, лаборатория Теслы, Колорадо Спрингс
Интервью: "Все есть свет"
Великий и загадочный Тесла радикально опередил человечество. Просветленный ученый в жизни был крайне необычным и веселым в общении. Ход его мыслей завораживал, ставил в тупик, давал материал для внутреннего развития. Давайте попробуем открыть для себя его личность, характер, манеру вести диалог. Для этого приводим выдержку из интервью, которое сербский гений дал на сорок четвертом году своей жизни. Разговор состоялся с репортером существовавшего тогда в Америке журнала «Бессмертие» Джоном Смитом
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1899, Interview with Nikola Tesla
Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with certain journalist John Smith, when Tesla said "Everything is the Light". In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the Sun. And remember: no one man that existed did not die.
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1899, Interview with Nikola Tesla
Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with certain journalist John Smith, when Tesla said "Everything is the Light". In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the Sun. And remember: no one man that existed did not die.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you have gained the glory of the man who got involved in the cosmic processes. Who are you, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: It is a right question, Mr. Smith, and I will try to give you the right answer to it.
Journalist: Futurists say that the Twenty-and Twenty First Century was born in head of Nikola Tesla. They celebrate conversely magnetic field and sing hymns to Inductions engine. Their creator was called the hunter who caught the light in his net from the depths of the earth, and the warrior who captured fire from heaven. Father of alternating current will make the Physics and Chemistry dominate half the world. Industry will proclaim him as their supreme saint, a banker for the largest benefactors. In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time is broken atom.
There is created a weapon that causes the earthquake vibrations. There are discovered black cosmic rays. Five races will pray to him in the Temple of the future, because they had taught a great secret that Empedocles elements can be watered with the life forces from the ethers.
Tesla: Yes, these are some of my most important discoveries. I'm a defeated man. I have not accomplished the greatest thing I could.
Journalist: What is it, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn.
Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth's interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man's homeland. I've spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them.
Journalist: What are these things?
Tesla: One issue is food. What a stellar or terrestrial energy to feed the hungry on Earth? With what wine watered all thirsty, so that they can cheer in their heart and understand that they are Gods?
Another thing is to destroy the power of evil and suffering in which man's life passes! They sometimes occur as an epidemic in the depths of space. In this century, the disease had spread from Earth in the Universe.
The third thing is: Is there an excess Light in the Universe? I discovered a star that by all the astronomical and mathematical laws could disappear, and that nothing seems to be modified. This star is in this galaxy. Its light can occur in such density that fits into a sphere smaller than an apple, a heavier than our Solar System. Religions and philosophies teach that man can become the Christ, Buddha and Zoroaster. What I'm trying to prove is wilder, and almost unattainable. This is what to do in the Universe so every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster.
I know that gravity is prone to everything you need to fly and my intention is not to make flying devices (aircraft or missiles), but teach individual to regain consciousness on his own wings … Further; I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. There are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
No empty space on this planet, nor in the Universe.. In black holes, what astronomers talk about, are the most powerful sources of energy and life.
Journalist: On the window of your room in hotel "Valdorf-Astoria", on the thirty-third floor, every morning, the birds arrive.
Tesla: A man must be sentimental towards the birds. This is because of their wings. Human had them once, the real and visible!
Journalist: You have not stopped flying since those distant days in Smiljan!
Tesla: I wanted to fly from the roof and I fell: Children's calculations could be wrong. Remember, the youth wings have everything in life!
Journalist: Have you ever married? It is not known that you have affection for love or for a woman. Photos from the youth show you were handsome man.
Tesla: Yes. I did not. There are two views: a lot affection or not at all. The center serves to rejuvenate human race. Women for certain people nurtures and strengthen its vitality and spirit. Being single does the same to other people. I chose that second path.
Journalist: Your admirers are complaining that you attacking relativity. The strange is your assertion that the matter has no energy. Everything is imbued with energy, where it is?
Tesla: First was energy, then matter.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, it's like when you said that you were born by your father, and not on you.
Tesla: Exactly! What about the birth of the Universe? Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as Light .It shone, and there have been appear star, the planets, man, and everything on the Earth and in the Universe. Matter is an expression of infinite forms of Light, because energy is older than it. There are four laws of Creation. The first is that the source of all the baffling, dark plot that the mind cannot conceive, or mathematics measure. In that plot fit the whole Universe.
The second law is spreading a darkness, which is the true nature of Light, from the inexplicable and it's transformed into the Light. The third law is the necessity of the Light to become a matter of Light. The fourth law is: no beginning and no end; three previous laws always take place and the Creation is eternal.
Journalist: In the hostility to the theory of relativity you go so far, that you hold lectures against its Creator at your birthday parties..
Tesla: Remember, it is not curved space, but the human mind which cannot comprehend infinity and eternity! If relativity has been clearly understood by its Creator, he would gain immortality, even yet physically, if he is pleased.
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert
I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.
About Pythagoras and mathematics a scientist may not and must not infringe of these two. Numbers and equations are signs that mark the music of the spheres. If Einstein had heard these sounds, he would not create theories of relativity. These sounds are the messages to the mind that life has meaning, that the Universe exists in perfect harmony, and its beauty is the cause and effect of Creation. This music is the eternal cycle of stellar heavens.
The smallest star has completed composition and also, part of the celestial symphony. The man's heartbeats are part of the symphony on the Earth. Newton learned that the secret is in geometric arrangement and motion of celestial bodies. He recognized that the supreme law of harmony exists in the Universe. The curved space is chaos, chaos is not music. Einstein is the messenger of the time of sound and fury.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, do you hear that music?
Tesla: I hear it all the time. My spiritual ear is as big as the sky we see above us. My natural ear I increased by the radar. According to the Theory of Relativity, two parallel lines will meet in infinity. By that Einstein's curved will straighten. Once created, the sound lasts forever. For a man it can vanish, but continues to exist in the silence that is man's greatest power.
No, I have nothing against Mr. Einstein. He is a kind person and has done many good things, some of which will become part of the music. I will write to him and try to explain that the ether exists, and that its particles are what keep the Universe in harmony, and the life in eternity.
Journalist: Tell me, please, under what conditions Angel adopt on the Earth?
Tesla: I have ten of them. Keep good records vigilant.
Journalist: I will document all your words, Dear Mr. Tesla.
Tesla: The first requirement is a high awareness of its mission and work to be done. It must, if only dimly, exist in the early days. Let us not be falsely modest; Oak knows that it is oak tree, a bush beside him being a bush. When I was twelve, I have been sure I will get to Niagara Falls. For most of my discoveries I knew in my childhood that I will achieve them, although not entirely apparent … The second condition to adapt is determination. All that I might, I finished.
Journalist: What is the third condition of adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Guidance for all the vital and spiritual energies in labor. Therefore purification of the many effects and needs that man has. I therefore have not lost anything, but just gained.
So I enjoyed every day and night. Write down: Nikola Tesla was a happy man… The fourth requirement is to adjust the physical assembly with a work.
Journalist: What do you mean, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: First, the maintenance of the assembly. Man's body is a perfect machine. I know my circuit and what's good for him. Food what nearly all people eat, to me it is harmful and dangerous. Sometimes I visualize that chefs in the world are all in conspiracy against me … Touch my hand.
Journalist: It was cold.
Tesla: Yes. Bloodstream can be controlled, and many processes in and around us. Why are you frightened young man?
Journalist: It's a story that Mark Twain wrote a mysterious stranger, that wonderful book of Satan, inspired by you.
Tesla: The word "Lucifer" is more charming. Mr. Twain likes to joke. As a child I was healed once by reading his books. When we met here and told him about, he was so touched that he cried. We became friends and he often came to my lab. Once he requested to show him a machine that by vibration provokes a feeling of bliss. It was one of those inventions for entertainment, what I sometimes like to do.
I warned Mr. Twain as not to remain under these vibrations. He did not listen and stayed longer. It ended by being, like a rocket, holding pants, darted into a certain room. It was a diabolically funny, but I kept the seriousness.
But, to adjust the physical circuit, in addition to food, dream is very important . From a long and exhausting work, which required superhuman effort, after one hour of sleep I'd be fully recovered. I gained the ability to manage sleep, to fell asleep and wake up in the time which I have designated. If I do something what I do not understand, I force myself to think about it in my dream, and thus find a solution.
Tesla: The fifth condition of adjustment is memory. Perhaps in the most people, the brain is keeper of knowledge about the world and the knowledge gained through the life. My brain is engaged in more important things than remembering, it is picking what is required at a given moment. This is all around us. It should only be consumed. Everything that we once saw, hear, read and learn, accompanies us in the form of light particles. To me, these particles are obedient and faithful.
Goethe's Faust, my favorite book, I learned by heart in German as a student, and now it can all recite. I held my inventions for years 'in my head ", and only then I realized them.
Journalist: You often mentioned the power of visualization.
Tesla: I might have to thank to visualization for all that I invented. The events of my life and my inventions are real in front of my eyes, visible as each occurrence or the item. In my youth I was frightened of not knowing what it is, but later, I learned to use this power as an exceptional talent and gift. I nurtured it, and jealously guarded. I also made corrections by visualization on most of my inventions, and finish them that way, by visualization I mentally solve complex mathematical equations. For that gift I have, I will receive rank High Lama in Tibet.
My eyesight and hearing are perfect and, dare to say, stronger than other people. I hear the thunder of a hundred fifty miles away, and I see colors in the sky that others cannot see. This enlargement of vision and hearing, I had as a child. Later I consciously developed.
Journalist: In youth you have several times been seriously ill. Is it a disease and a requirement to adapt?
Tesla: Yes. It is often the result of a lack of exhaustion or vital force, but often the purification of mind and body from the toxins that have accumulated. It is necessary that a man suffers from time to time. The source of most disease is in the spirit. Therefore the spirit and can cure most diseases. As a student I got sick of cholera which raged in the region of Lika. I was cured because my father finally allowed me to study technology, which was my life. Illusion for me was not a disease, but the mind's ability to penetrate beyond the three dimensions of the earth.
I had them all my life, and I have received them as all other phenomena around us. Once, in childhood, I was walking along the river with Uncle and said: "From the water will appear the trout, I'll throw a stone and it is cut." That's what happened. Frightened and amazed, his uncle cried: "Bade retro Satan's!" He was an educated and he spoke in Latin …
I was in Paris when I saw my mother's death. In the sky, full of light and music floated are wonderful creatures. One of them had a mother's character, who was looking at me with infinite love. As the vision disappeared, I knew that my mother died.
Journalist: What is the seventh adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: The knowledge of how the mental and vital energy transform into what we want, and achieve control over all feelings. Hindus call it Kundalini Yoga. This knowledge can be learned, for what they need many years or is acquired by birth. The most of them I acquired by birth. They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe. The woman is the biggest thief of that energy, and thus the spiritual power.
I've always knew that and was alerted. Of myself I created what I wanted: a thoughtful and spiritual machine.
Journalist: A ninth adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Do everything that any day, any moment, if possible, not to forget who we are and why we are on Earth. Extraordinary people who are struggling with illness, privation, or the society which hurts them with its stupidity, misunderstanding, persecution and other problems which the country is full of a swamps with insects, leaves behind unclaimed until the end of the work. There are many fallen angels on Earth.
Journalist: What is the tenth adaptation?
Tesla: It is most important. Write that Mr. Tesla played. He played the whole of his life and enjoyed it.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla! Whether it relates to your findings and your work? Is this a game?
Tesla: Yes, dear boy. I have so loved to play with electricity! I always cringe when I hear about the one also the Greek who stole fire. A terrible story about studding, and eagles peck at his liver. Did Zeus did not have enough lightning and thunder, and was damaged for one fervor? There is some misunderstanding…
Lightning are the most beautiful toys that can be found. Do not forget that in your text stand out: Nikola Tesla was the first man who discovered lightning.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you're just talking about angels and their adaptation to the Earth.
Tesla: Am I? This is the same. You could write this: he dared to take upon himself the prerogatives of Indri, Zeus and Peron. Imagine one of these gods in a black evening suit, with the bowler hat and wearing white cotton gloves prepares lightning, fires and earthquakes to the New York City elite!
Journalist: Readers love the humor of our paper. But you confuse me stating that your findings, which have immense benefits for the people, representing the game. Many will frown on it.
Tesla: Dear Mr. Smith, the trouble is that people are too serious. If they were not, they would be happier and much longer would have lived. Chinese proverb says that the seriousness reduces life. Visiting the inn Tai Pe guessed that he visits the Imperial Palace. But that the newspaper readers would not have frowned, let's get back to things which they consider important.
Journalist: They would love to hear what your philosophy is.
Tesla: Life is a rhythm that must be comprehended. I feel the rhythm and direct on it and pamper in it. It was very grateful and gave me the knowledge I have. Everything that lives is related to a deep and wonderful relationship: man and the stars, amoebas' and the sun, the heart and the circulation of an infinite number of worlds. These ties are unbreakable, but they can be tame and to propitiate and begin to create new and different relationships in the world, and that does not violate the old.
Knowledge comes from space; our vision is its most perfect set. We have two eyes: the earthly and spiritual. It is recommended that it become one eye. Universe is alive in all its manifestations, like a thinking animal.
Stone is a thinking and sentient being, such as plant, beast and a man. A star that shines asked to look at, and if we are not a sizeable self-absorbed we would understand its language and message. His breathing, his eyes and ears of the man must comply with breathing, eyes and ears of the Universe.
Journalist: As you say this, it seems to me like I hear Buddhist texts, words or Taoist Parazulzusa.
Tesla: That's right! This means that there is general knowledge and truth that man has always possessed. In my feeling and experience, the Universe has only one substance and one supreme energy with an infinite number of manifestations of life. The best thing is that the discovery of a secret nature, reveals the other.
One cannot hide, there are around us, but we are blind and deaf to them. If we emotionally tie ourselves to them, they come to us themselves. There are a lot of apples, but one Newton. He asked for just one apple that fell in front of him.
Journalist: A question that might be set at the beginning of this conversation. What was Electricity for you, Dear Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Everything is Electricity. First was the light, endless source from which points out material and distribute it in all forms that represent the Universe and the Earth with all its aspects of life. Black is the true face of Light, only we do not see this. It is remarkable grace to man and other creatures. One of its particles possesses light, thermal, nuclear, radiation, chemical, mechanical and an unidentified energy.
It has the power to run the Earth with its orbit. It is true Archimedean lever.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you're too biased towards electricity.
Tesla: Electricity I am. Or, if you wish, I am the electricity in the human form. You are Electricity; too Mr. Smith, but you do not realize it.
Journalist: Is it thus your ability to allow fails of electricity of one million volts trough your body?
Tesla: Imagine a gardener who is attacked by herbs. This would indeed be crazy. Man's body and brain are made from a large amount energy; in me there is the majority of electricity. The energy that is different in everyone is what makes the human "I" or "soul". For other creatures to their essence, "soul" of the plant is the "soul" of minerals and animals.
Brain function and death is manifested in light. My eyes in youth were black, now blue, and as time goes on and strain the brain gets stronger, they are closer to white. White is the color of heaven. Through my window one morning, landed a white dove, which I fed. She wanted to bring me a word that she was dying. From her eyes the light jets were coming out. Never in the eyes of any creature had I not seen so much light, as in that pigeon.
Journalist: Personnel in your lab speak about flashes of light, flames and lightning that occur if you are angry or into kind of risk.
Tesla: It is the psychic discharge or a warning to be alert. The light was always on my side. Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and induction motor, which made me became famous when I was twenty-six? One summer evening in Budapest, I watched with my friend Sigetijem sunset.
Thousands of fire was turning around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw spinning magnetic field, and induction motor. I saw them in the sun!
Journalist: Hotel service telling that at the time of lightning you isolate into the room and talk to yourselves.
Tesla: I talk with lightning and thunder.
Journalist: With them? What language, Mr.Tesla?
Tesla: Mostly my native language. It has the words and sounds, especially in poetry, what is suitable for it.
Journalist: Readers of our magazine would be very grateful if you would interpret that.
Tesla: The sound does not exist only in the thunder and lightning, but, in transformation into the brightness and color. A color can be heard. Language is of the words, which means that it is from the sounds and colors. Every thunder and lightning are different and have their names. I call some of them by the names of those who were close in my life, or by those whom I admire.
In the sky brightness and thunder live my mother, sister, brother Daniel, a poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and other persons of Serbian history. Names such AsIsaiah, Ezekiel, Leonardo, Beethoven, Goya, Faraday, Pushkin and all burning fires mark shoals and tangles of lightning and thunder, which does not stop all night bringing to the Earth precious rain and burning trees or villages.
There is lightning and thunder, and they are the brightest and most powerful, that will not vanish. They are coming back and I recognize them among the thousands.
Journalist: For you, science or poetry is the same?
Tesla: These are the two eyes of one person. William Blake was taught that the Universe was born from the imagination, that it maintains and it will exist as long as there is a last man on the Earth. With it was a wheel to which astronomers can collect the stars of all galaxies. It is the creative energy identical to the light energy.
Journalist: Imagination is more real to you than life itself?
Tesla: It gives birth to the life. I have fed by my taught; I've learned to control emotions, dreams and visions. I have always cherished, as I nurtured my enthusiasm. All my long life I spent in ecstasy. That was the source of my happiness. It helped me during all these years to bear with work, which was enough for the five lives. The best is to work at night, because the stellar light, and close bond.
Journalist: You said that I am, like every being, the Light. This flatter me, but I confess, I do not quite understand.
Tesla: Why would you need to understand, Mr. Smith? Suffice it to believe it. Everything is light. In one its ray is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in what great light source we see as the sun. And remember: no one who was there did not die. They transformed into the light, and as such exist still. The secret lies in the fact that the light particles restore their original state.
Journalist: This is the resurrection!
Tesla: I prefer to call it: return to a previous energy. Christ and several others knew the secret. I am searching how to preserve human energy. It is forms of Light, sometimes straight like heavenly light. I have not looked for it for my own sake, but for the good of all. I believe that my discoveries make people's lives easier and more bearable, and channel them to spirituality and morality.
Journalist: Do you think that time can be abolished?
Tesla: Not quite, because the first feature of the energy is that it transforms. It is in perpetual transformation, as clouds of Taoists. But it is possible to leverage the fact that a man preserves consciousness after the earthly life. In every corner of the universe exist energy of life; one of them is immortality, whose origin is outside of man, waiting for him.
The universe is spiritual; we are only half that way. The Universe is more moral than us, because we do not know his nature and how to harmonize our lives with it. I am not scientist, science is perhaps the most convenient way to find the answer to the question that always haunt me, and which my days and nights turned into fire.
Journalist: What's the matter?
Tesla: How are your eyes brightened!… What I wanted to know is: what happens to a falling star as the sun goes out? Stars fall like dust or seed in this or in other worlds, and the sun be scattered in our minds, in the lives of many beings, what will be reborn as a new light, or cosmic wind scattered in infinity.
I understand that this is necessary included in the structure of the Universe. The thing is, though, is that one of these stars and one of these suns, even the smallest, preserves.
Journalist: But, Mr. Tesla, you realize that this is necessary and is included in the constitution of the world!
Tesla: When a man becomes concuss; that his highest goal must be to run for a shooting star, and tries to capture it; shall understand that his life was given to him because of this and will be saved. Stars will eventually be capable to catch!
Journalist: And what will happen then?
Tesla: The creator will laugh and say: "It fall only that you chase her and grab her."
Journalist: Isn't all of this contrary to the cosmic pain, which so often you mention in your writings? And what is it cosmic pain?
Tesla: No, because we are on Earth … It is an illness whose existence the vast majority of people are not aware of. Hence, many other illnesses, suffering, evil, misery, wars and everything else what makes human life an absurd and horrible condition. This disease cannot be completely cured, but awareness shall make it less complicated and hazardous. Whenever one of my close and dear people were hurt, I felt physical pain. This is because our bodies are made as of similar material, and our soul related with unbreakable strands. Incomprehensible sadness that overwhelmed us at times means that somewhere, on the other side on this planet, a child or generous man died.
The entire Universe is in certain periods sick of itself, and of us. Disappearance of a star and the appearance of comets affect us more than we can imagine. Relationships among the creatures on the Earth are even stronger, because of our feelings and thoughts the flower will scent even more beautiful or will fall in silence.
These truths we must learn in order to be healed. Remedy is in our hearts and evenly, in the heart of the animals that we call the Universe.
Tesla: It is a right question, Mr. Smith, and I will try to give you the right answer to it.
Journalist: Futurists say that the Twenty-and Twenty First Century was born in head of Nikola Tesla. They celebrate conversely magnetic field and sing hymns to Inductions engine. Their creator was called the hunter who caught the light in his net from the depths of the earth, and the warrior who captured fire from heaven. Father of alternating current will make the Physics and Chemistry dominate half the world. Industry will proclaim him as their supreme saint, a banker for the largest benefactors. In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time is broken atom.
There is created a weapon that causes the earthquake vibrations. There are discovered black cosmic rays. Five races will pray to him in the Temple of the future, because they had taught a great secret that Empedocles elements can be watered with the life forces from the ethers.
Tesla: Yes, these are some of my most important discoveries. I'm a defeated man. I have not accomplished the greatest thing I could.
Journalist: What is it, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn.
Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth's interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man's homeland. I've spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them.
Journalist: What are these things?
Tesla: One issue is food. What a stellar or terrestrial energy to feed the hungry on Earth? With what wine watered all thirsty, so that they can cheer in their heart and understand that they are Gods?
Another thing is to destroy the power of evil and suffering in which man's life passes! They sometimes occur as an epidemic in the depths of space. In this century, the disease had spread from Earth in the Universe.
The third thing is: Is there an excess Light in the Universe? I discovered a star that by all the astronomical and mathematical laws could disappear, and that nothing seems to be modified. This star is in this galaxy. Its light can occur in such density that fits into a sphere smaller than an apple, a heavier than our Solar System. Religions and philosophies teach that man can become the Christ, Buddha and Zoroaster. What I'm trying to prove is wilder, and almost unattainable. This is what to do in the Universe so every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster.
I know that gravity is prone to everything you need to fly and my intention is not to make flying devices (aircraft or missiles), but teach individual to regain consciousness on his own wings … Further; I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. There are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
No empty space on this planet, nor in the Universe.. In black holes, what astronomers talk about, are the most powerful sources of energy and life.
Journalist: On the window of your room in hotel "Valdorf-Astoria", on the thirty-third floor, every morning, the birds arrive.
Tesla: A man must be sentimental towards the birds. This is because of their wings. Human had them once, the real and visible!
Journalist: You have not stopped flying since those distant days in Smiljan!
Tesla: I wanted to fly from the roof and I fell: Children's calculations could be wrong. Remember, the youth wings have everything in life!
Journalist: Have you ever married? It is not known that you have affection for love or for a woman. Photos from the youth show you were handsome man.
Tesla: Yes. I did not. There are two views: a lot affection or not at all. The center serves to rejuvenate human race. Women for certain people nurtures and strengthen its vitality and spirit. Being single does the same to other people. I chose that second path.
Journalist: Your admirers are complaining that you attacking relativity. The strange is your assertion that the matter has no energy. Everything is imbued with energy, where it is?
Tesla: First was energy, then matter.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, it's like when you said that you were born by your father, and not on you.
Tesla: Exactly! What about the birth of the Universe? Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as Light .It shone, and there have been appear star, the planets, man, and everything on the Earth and in the Universe. Matter is an expression of infinite forms of Light, because energy is older than it. There are four laws of Creation. The first is that the source of all the baffling, dark plot that the mind cannot conceive, or mathematics measure. In that plot fit the whole Universe.
The second law is spreading a darkness, which is the true nature of Light, from the inexplicable and it's transformed into the Light. The third law is the necessity of the Light to become a matter of Light. The fourth law is: no beginning and no end; three previous laws always take place and the Creation is eternal.
Journalist: In the hostility to the theory of relativity you go so far, that you hold lectures against its Creator at your birthday parties..
Tesla: Remember, it is not curved space, but the human mind which cannot comprehend infinity and eternity! If relativity has been clearly understood by its Creator, he would gain immortality, even yet physically, if he is pleased.
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert
I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.
About Pythagoras and mathematics a scientist may not and must not infringe of these two. Numbers and equations are signs that mark the music of the spheres. If Einstein had heard these sounds, he would not create theories of relativity. These sounds are the messages to the mind that life has meaning, that the Universe exists in perfect harmony, and its beauty is the cause and effect of Creation. This music is the eternal cycle of stellar heavens.
The smallest star has completed composition and also, part of the celestial symphony. The man's heartbeats are part of the symphony on the Earth. Newton learned that the secret is in geometric arrangement and motion of celestial bodies. He recognized that the supreme law of harmony exists in the Universe. The curved space is chaos, chaos is not music. Einstein is the messenger of the time of sound and fury.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, do you hear that music?
Tesla: I hear it all the time. My spiritual ear is as big as the sky we see above us. My natural ear I increased by the radar. According to the Theory of Relativity, two parallel lines will meet in infinity. By that Einstein's curved will straighten. Once created, the sound lasts forever. For a man it can vanish, but continues to exist in the silence that is man's greatest power.
No, I have nothing against Mr. Einstein. He is a kind person and has done many good things, some of which will become part of the music. I will write to him and try to explain that the ether exists, and that its particles are what keep the Universe in harmony, and the life in eternity.
Journalist: Tell me, please, under what conditions Angel adopt on the Earth?
Tesla: I have ten of them. Keep good records vigilant.
Journalist: I will document all your words, Dear Mr. Tesla.
Tesla: The first requirement is a high awareness of its mission and work to be done. It must, if only dimly, exist in the early days. Let us not be falsely modest; Oak knows that it is oak tree, a bush beside him being a bush. When I was twelve, I have been sure I will get to Niagara Falls. For most of my discoveries I knew in my childhood that I will achieve them, although not entirely apparent … The second condition to adapt is determination. All that I might, I finished.
Journalist: What is the third condition of adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Guidance for all the vital and spiritual energies in labor. Therefore purification of the many effects and needs that man has. I therefore have not lost anything, but just gained.
So I enjoyed every day and night. Write down: Nikola Tesla was a happy man… The fourth requirement is to adjust the physical assembly with a work.
Journalist: What do you mean, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: First, the maintenance of the assembly. Man's body is a perfect machine. I know my circuit and what's good for him. Food what nearly all people eat, to me it is harmful and dangerous. Sometimes I visualize that chefs in the world are all in conspiracy against me … Touch my hand.
Journalist: It was cold.
Tesla: Yes. Bloodstream can be controlled, and many processes in and around us. Why are you frightened young man?
Journalist: It's a story that Mark Twain wrote a mysterious stranger, that wonderful book of Satan, inspired by you.
Tesla: The word "Lucifer" is more charming. Mr. Twain likes to joke. As a child I was healed once by reading his books. When we met here and told him about, he was so touched that he cried. We became friends and he often came to my lab. Once he requested to show him a machine that by vibration provokes a feeling of bliss. It was one of those inventions for entertainment, what I sometimes like to do.
I warned Mr. Twain as not to remain under these vibrations. He did not listen and stayed longer. It ended by being, like a rocket, holding pants, darted into a certain room. It was a diabolically funny, but I kept the seriousness.
But, to adjust the physical circuit, in addition to food, dream is very important . From a long and exhausting work, which required superhuman effort, after one hour of sleep I'd be fully recovered. I gained the ability to manage sleep, to fell asleep and wake up in the time which I have designated. If I do something what I do not understand, I force myself to think about it in my dream, and thus find a solution.
Tesla: The fifth condition of adjustment is memory. Perhaps in the most people, the brain is keeper of knowledge about the world and the knowledge gained through the life. My brain is engaged in more important things than remembering, it is picking what is required at a given moment. This is all around us. It should only be consumed. Everything that we once saw, hear, read and learn, accompanies us in the form of light particles. To me, these particles are obedient and faithful.
Goethe's Faust, my favorite book, I learned by heart in German as a student, and now it can all recite. I held my inventions for years 'in my head ", and only then I realized them.
Journalist: You often mentioned the power of visualization.
Tesla: I might have to thank to visualization for all that I invented. The events of my life and my inventions are real in front of my eyes, visible as each occurrence or the item. In my youth I was frightened of not knowing what it is, but later, I learned to use this power as an exceptional talent and gift. I nurtured it, and jealously guarded. I also made corrections by visualization on most of my inventions, and finish them that way, by visualization I mentally solve complex mathematical equations. For that gift I have, I will receive rank High Lama in Tibet.
My eyesight and hearing are perfect and, dare to say, stronger than other people. I hear the thunder of a hundred fifty miles away, and I see colors in the sky that others cannot see. This enlargement of vision and hearing, I had as a child. Later I consciously developed.
Journalist: In youth you have several times been seriously ill. Is it a disease and a requirement to adapt?
Tesla: Yes. It is often the result of a lack of exhaustion or vital force, but often the purification of mind and body from the toxins that have accumulated. It is necessary that a man suffers from time to time. The source of most disease is in the spirit. Therefore the spirit and can cure most diseases. As a student I got sick of cholera which raged in the region of Lika. I was cured because my father finally allowed me to study technology, which was my life. Illusion for me was not a disease, but the mind's ability to penetrate beyond the three dimensions of the earth.
I had them all my life, and I have received them as all other phenomena around us. Once, in childhood, I was walking along the river with Uncle and said: "From the water will appear the trout, I'll throw a stone and it is cut." That's what happened. Frightened and amazed, his uncle cried: "Bade retro Satan's!" He was an educated and he spoke in Latin …
I was in Paris when I saw my mother's death. In the sky, full of light and music floated are wonderful creatures. One of them had a mother's character, who was looking at me with infinite love. As the vision disappeared, I knew that my mother died.
Journalist: What is the seventh adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: The knowledge of how the mental and vital energy transform into what we want, and achieve control over all feelings. Hindus call it Kundalini Yoga. This knowledge can be learned, for what they need many years or is acquired by birth. The most of them I acquired by birth. They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe. The woman is the biggest thief of that energy, and thus the spiritual power.
I've always knew that and was alerted. Of myself I created what I wanted: a thoughtful and spiritual machine.
Journalist: A ninth adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Do everything that any day, any moment, if possible, not to forget who we are and why we are on Earth. Extraordinary people who are struggling with illness, privation, or the society which hurts them with its stupidity, misunderstanding, persecution and other problems which the country is full of a swamps with insects, leaves behind unclaimed until the end of the work. There are many fallen angels on Earth.
Journalist: What is the tenth adaptation?
Tesla: It is most important. Write that Mr. Tesla played. He played the whole of his life and enjoyed it.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla! Whether it relates to your findings and your work? Is this a game?
Tesla: Yes, dear boy. I have so loved to play with electricity! I always cringe when I hear about the one also the Greek who stole fire. A terrible story about studding, and eagles peck at his liver. Did Zeus did not have enough lightning and thunder, and was damaged for one fervor? There is some misunderstanding…
Lightning are the most beautiful toys that can be found. Do not forget that in your text stand out: Nikola Tesla was the first man who discovered lightning.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you're just talking about angels and their adaptation to the Earth.
Tesla: Am I? This is the same. You could write this: he dared to take upon himself the prerogatives of Indri, Zeus and Peron. Imagine one of these gods in a black evening suit, with the bowler hat and wearing white cotton gloves prepares lightning, fires and earthquakes to the New York City elite!
Journalist: Readers love the humor of our paper. But you confuse me stating that your findings, which have immense benefits for the people, representing the game. Many will frown on it.
Tesla: Dear Mr. Smith, the trouble is that people are too serious. If they were not, they would be happier and much longer would have lived. Chinese proverb says that the seriousness reduces life. Visiting the inn Tai Pe guessed that he visits the Imperial Palace. But that the newspaper readers would not have frowned, let's get back to things which they consider important.
Journalist: They would love to hear what your philosophy is.
Tesla: Life is a rhythm that must be comprehended. I feel the rhythm and direct on it and pamper in it. It was very grateful and gave me the knowledge I have. Everything that lives is related to a deep and wonderful relationship: man and the stars, amoebas' and the sun, the heart and the circulation of an infinite number of worlds. These ties are unbreakable, but they can be tame and to propitiate and begin to create new and different relationships in the world, and that does not violate the old.
Knowledge comes from space; our vision is its most perfect set. We have two eyes: the earthly and spiritual. It is recommended that it become one eye. Universe is alive in all its manifestations, like a thinking animal.
Stone is a thinking and sentient being, such as plant, beast and a man. A star that shines asked to look at, and if we are not a sizeable self-absorbed we would understand its language and message. His breathing, his eyes and ears of the man must comply with breathing, eyes and ears of the Universe.
Journalist: As you say this, it seems to me like I hear Buddhist texts, words or Taoist Parazulzusa.
Tesla: That's right! This means that there is general knowledge and truth that man has always possessed. In my feeling and experience, the Universe has only one substance and one supreme energy with an infinite number of manifestations of life. The best thing is that the discovery of a secret nature, reveals the other.
One cannot hide, there are around us, but we are blind and deaf to them. If we emotionally tie ourselves to them, they come to us themselves. There are a lot of apples, but one Newton. He asked for just one apple that fell in front of him.
Journalist: A question that might be set at the beginning of this conversation. What was Electricity for you, Dear Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Everything is Electricity. First was the light, endless source from which points out material and distribute it in all forms that represent the Universe and the Earth with all its aspects of life. Black is the true face of Light, only we do not see this. It is remarkable grace to man and other creatures. One of its particles possesses light, thermal, nuclear, radiation, chemical, mechanical and an unidentified energy.
It has the power to run the Earth with its orbit. It is true Archimedean lever.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you're too biased towards electricity.
Tesla: Electricity I am. Or, if you wish, I am the electricity in the human form. You are Electricity; too Mr. Smith, but you do not realize it.
Journalist: Is it thus your ability to allow fails of electricity of one million volts trough your body?
Tesla: Imagine a gardener who is attacked by herbs. This would indeed be crazy. Man's body and brain are made from a large amount energy; in me there is the majority of electricity. The energy that is different in everyone is what makes the human "I" or "soul". For other creatures to their essence, "soul" of the plant is the "soul" of minerals and animals.
Brain function and death is manifested in light. My eyes in youth were black, now blue, and as time goes on and strain the brain gets stronger, they are closer to white. White is the color of heaven. Through my window one morning, landed a white dove, which I fed. She wanted to bring me a word that she was dying. From her eyes the light jets were coming out. Never in the eyes of any creature had I not seen so much light, as in that pigeon.
Journalist: Personnel in your lab speak about flashes of light, flames and lightning that occur if you are angry or into kind of risk.
Tesla: It is the psychic discharge or a warning to be alert. The light was always on my side. Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and induction motor, which made me became famous when I was twenty-six? One summer evening in Budapest, I watched with my friend Sigetijem sunset.
Thousands of fire was turning around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw spinning magnetic field, and induction motor. I saw them in the sun!
Journalist: Hotel service telling that at the time of lightning you isolate into the room and talk to yourselves.
Tesla: I talk with lightning and thunder.
Journalist: With them? What language, Mr.Tesla?
Tesla: Mostly my native language. It has the words and sounds, especially in poetry, what is suitable for it.
Journalist: Readers of our magazine would be very grateful if you would interpret that.
Tesla: The sound does not exist only in the thunder and lightning, but, in transformation into the brightness and color. A color can be heard. Language is of the words, which means that it is from the sounds and colors. Every thunder and lightning are different and have their names. I call some of them by the names of those who were close in my life, or by those whom I admire.
In the sky brightness and thunder live my mother, sister, brother Daniel, a poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and other persons of Serbian history. Names such AsIsaiah, Ezekiel, Leonardo, Beethoven, Goya, Faraday, Pushkin and all burning fires mark shoals and tangles of lightning and thunder, which does not stop all night bringing to the Earth precious rain and burning trees or villages.
There is lightning and thunder, and they are the brightest and most powerful, that will not vanish. They are coming back and I recognize them among the thousands.
Journalist: For you, science or poetry is the same?
Tesla: These are the two eyes of one person. William Blake was taught that the Universe was born from the imagination, that it maintains and it will exist as long as there is a last man on the Earth. With it was a wheel to which astronomers can collect the stars of all galaxies. It is the creative energy identical to the light energy.
Journalist: Imagination is more real to you than life itself?
Tesla: It gives birth to the life. I have fed by my taught; I've learned to control emotions, dreams and visions. I have always cherished, as I nurtured my enthusiasm. All my long life I spent in ecstasy. That was the source of my happiness. It helped me during all these years to bear with work, which was enough for the five lives. The best is to work at night, because the stellar light, and close bond.
Journalist: You said that I am, like every being, the Light. This flatter me, but I confess, I do not quite understand.
Tesla: Why would you need to understand, Mr. Smith? Suffice it to believe it. Everything is light. In one its ray is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in what great light source we see as the sun. And remember: no one who was there did not die. They transformed into the light, and as such exist still. The secret lies in the fact that the light particles restore their original state.
Journalist: This is the resurrection!
Tesla: I prefer to call it: return to a previous energy. Christ and several others knew the secret. I am searching how to preserve human energy. It is forms of Light, sometimes straight like heavenly light. I have not looked for it for my own sake, but for the good of all. I believe that my discoveries make people's lives easier and more bearable, and channel them to spirituality and morality.
Journalist: Do you think that time can be abolished?
Tesla: Not quite, because the first feature of the energy is that it transforms. It is in perpetual transformation, as clouds of Taoists. But it is possible to leverage the fact that a man preserves consciousness after the earthly life. In every corner of the universe exist energy of life; one of them is immortality, whose origin is outside of man, waiting for him.
The universe is spiritual; we are only half that way. The Universe is more moral than us, because we do not know his nature and how to harmonize our lives with it. I am not scientist, science is perhaps the most convenient way to find the answer to the question that always haunt me, and which my days and nights turned into fire.
Journalist: What's the matter?
Tesla: How are your eyes brightened!… What I wanted to know is: what happens to a falling star as the sun goes out? Stars fall like dust or seed in this or in other worlds, and the sun be scattered in our minds, in the lives of many beings, what will be reborn as a new light, or cosmic wind scattered in infinity.
I understand that this is necessary included in the structure of the Universe. The thing is, though, is that one of these stars and one of these suns, even the smallest, preserves.
Journalist: But, Mr. Tesla, you realize that this is necessary and is included in the constitution of the world!
Tesla: When a man becomes concuss; that his highest goal must be to run for a shooting star, and tries to capture it; shall understand that his life was given to him because of this and will be saved. Stars will eventually be capable to catch!
Journalist: And what will happen then?
Tesla: The creator will laugh and say: "It fall only that you chase her and grab her."
Journalist: Isn't all of this contrary to the cosmic pain, which so often you mention in your writings? And what is it cosmic pain?
Tesla: No, because we are on Earth … It is an illness whose existence the vast majority of people are not aware of. Hence, many other illnesses, suffering, evil, misery, wars and everything else what makes human life an absurd and horrible condition. This disease cannot be completely cured, but awareness shall make it less complicated and hazardous. Whenever one of my close and dear people were hurt, I felt physical pain. This is because our bodies are made as of similar material, and our soul related with unbreakable strands. Incomprehensible sadness that overwhelmed us at times means that somewhere, on the other side on this planet, a child or generous man died.
The entire Universe is in certain periods sick of itself, and of us. Disappearance of a star and the appearance of comets affect us more than we can imagine. Relationships among the creatures on the Earth are even stronger, because of our feelings and thoughts the flower will scent even more beautiful or will fall in silence.
These truths we must learn in order to be healed. Remedy is in our hearts and evenly, in the heart of the animals that we call the Universe.
Dates of the life of Nikola Tesla
1856, July 10. Born in Smiljan, a village near Gospić (a small town in Austria-Hungary, now in the Republic of Croatia).
1873. Passed the final examinations at the secondary school in Karlovac;
1875 - 1877. Studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz.
1880. Study of Natural Philosophy at Charles University in Prague;
1881 Beginning of work at the Central Telegraph Office in Budapest. Makes the first invention: a voice amplifier for a telephone receiver;
1882. Invents a rotating magnetic field and leaves Budapest; takes a job at the Edison Continental Company in Paris.
1883. Spends six months renovating a power plant in Strasbourg. Makes the first model of an induction motor;
1884. Returns to Paris. On the recommendation of the Paris Board, he moves to New York to work at Edison Machine Works;
1885 Leaves Edison's company and founds Tesla Arc Light Company in New York. Makes the first AC motors and generators. Submits first patent application "Switch for dynamos of electrical machines", followed by patents for regulators for arc lamps;
1888. Patents for multiphase motors and alternators. Gives first lecture: "New AC Motor and Transformer Systems" before AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers); signs a contract with Westinghouse Electric Company to use its patents;
1889. Works at the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh to improve its engines. Engine production began in the same year.
1890. Begins experiments with high frequency currents. Invents a high-frequency current generator.
1891. Invents coreless transformers.
1892. Lectures in London and Paris on his latest research ("Experiments with alternating currents of high potential and high frequency"); visits his homeland and Belgrade.
1893. Invents the wireless telegraphy system; has great success with lectures at the Chicago World's Fair. Along with Westinghouse, he demonstrates the system for the production, transmission and use of alternating current, decisively influencing the adoption of the project for the construction of the hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls;
1894 - 95. Invents mechanical oscillators and generators of electrical oscillations;
1895. Fire destroys his laboratory in New York;
1896. Experiments with X-rays;
1873. Passed the final examinations at the secondary school in Karlovac;
1875 - 1877. Studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz.
1880. Study of Natural Philosophy at Charles University in Prague;
1881 Beginning of work at the Central Telegraph Office in Budapest. Makes the first invention: a voice amplifier for a telephone receiver;
1882. Invents a rotating magnetic field and leaves Budapest; takes a job at the Edison Continental Company in Paris.
1883. Spends six months renovating a power plant in Strasbourg. Makes the first model of an induction motor;
1884. Returns to Paris. On the recommendation of the Paris Board, he moves to New York to work at Edison Machine Works;
1885 Leaves Edison's company and founds Tesla Arc Light Company in New York. Makes the first AC motors and generators. Submits first patent application "Switch for dynamos of electrical machines", followed by patents for regulators for arc lamps;
1888. Patents for multiphase motors and alternators. Gives first lecture: "New AC Motor and Transformer Systems" before AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers); signs a contract with Westinghouse Electric Company to use its patents;
1889. Works at the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh to improve its engines. Engine production began in the same year.
1890. Begins experiments with high frequency currents. Invents a high-frequency current generator.
1891. Invents coreless transformers.
1892. Lectures in London and Paris on his latest research ("Experiments with alternating currents of high potential and high frequency"); visits his homeland and Belgrade.
1893. Invents the wireless telegraphy system; has great success with lectures at the Chicago World's Fair. Along with Westinghouse, he demonstrates the system for the production, transmission and use of alternating current, decisively influencing the adoption of the project for the construction of the hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls;
1894 - 95. Invents mechanical oscillators and generators of electrical oscillations;
1895. Fire destroys his laboratory in New York;
1896. Experiments with X-rays;
Demonstration of boat model
remote controlled in 1897
remote controlled in 1897
1897-1898. First patents for wireless power transmission; demonstrates a model of a boat with remote control. (This was the first experiment in the world to use radio waves for remote control.)
1899 Builds a laboratory in Colorado Springs and experiments with a 12 million volt high frequency transformer (Tesla Coil);
1900 - 05. Construction of the Transmitting Tower, i.e. there are antennas for the World Telegraph on Long Island, Wardencliff, N..Y.C., intending to create a worldwide system for the transmission of information and energy;
1907. Makes the first turbine model based on a new principle of using fluid energy based on viscous friction.
1899 Builds a laboratory in Colorado Springs and experiments with a 12 million volt high frequency transformer (Tesla Coil);
1900 - 05. Construction of the Transmitting Tower, i.e. there are antennas for the World Telegraph on Long Island, Wardencliff, N..Y.C., intending to create a worldwide system for the transmission of information and energy;
1907. Makes the first turbine model based on a new principle of using fluid energy based on viscous friction.
1908. A new pump model was tested at the American-British Company plant;
1909. Makes sketches and plans for an air car; conducts the first tests of steam and gas turbines.
1911-13. Tests its steam turbines at the Edison power plant in New York
1913. Receives patents for pump and turbine based on a new principle. Collaborates with Dressel Company on a generator project for a locomotive's front light;
1914. Patents several types of speed indicators; builds new types of fountains, etc .;
1917. Works on a project for a turbo generator.
1918-20. Collaborates with Alice Chelmers Company to manufacture and test its steam and gas turbines.
1920-23. Collaborates with the "Bad Company" for the production of automotive engines;
1928 Patents a vertical take-off aircraft;
1930 - 1935. Explores the possibilities of improvements in the production and processing of sulfur, iron and copper;
In 1934, giving lectures in the United States, Tesla made a statement:
"I have shown that the universal medium (ether) is a gaseous body in which only longitudinal impulses can propagate, creating alternating compression and expansion, similar to those produced by sound waves in the air. Thus, the wireless transmitter does not produce Hertz waves, which is a myth! But it produces sound waves in the ether, the behavior of which is similar to the behavior of sound waves in air, except that the enormous elasticity and extremely low density of this medium makes their speed equal to the speed of light. " "Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views on Power," New York Herald Tribune, September 11, 1932.
1936. Makes design proposals for telegeodynamics or transmission of energy through the earth and defensive weapons known as "death rays".
1937 Wounded in a traffic accident in New York.
1943, January 7. He died at the New Yorker Hotel in New York.
1909. Makes sketches and plans for an air car; conducts the first tests of steam and gas turbines.
1911-13. Tests its steam turbines at the Edison power plant in New York
1913. Receives patents for pump and turbine based on a new principle. Collaborates with Dressel Company on a generator project for a locomotive's front light;
1914. Patents several types of speed indicators; builds new types of fountains, etc .;
1917. Works on a project for a turbo generator.
1918-20. Collaborates with Alice Chelmers Company to manufacture and test its steam and gas turbines.
1920-23. Collaborates with the "Bad Company" for the production of automotive engines;
1928 Patents a vertical take-off aircraft;
1930 - 1935. Explores the possibilities of improvements in the production and processing of sulfur, iron and copper;
In 1934, giving lectures in the United States, Tesla made a statement:
"I have shown that the universal medium (ether) is a gaseous body in which only longitudinal impulses can propagate, creating alternating compression and expansion, similar to those produced by sound waves in the air. Thus, the wireless transmitter does not produce Hertz waves, which is a myth! But it produces sound waves in the ether, the behavior of which is similar to the behavior of sound waves in air, except that the enormous elasticity and extremely low density of this medium makes their speed equal to the speed of light. " "Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views on Power," New York Herald Tribune, September 11, 1932.
1936. Makes design proposals for telegeodynamics or transmission of energy through the earth and defensive weapons known as "death rays".
1937 Wounded in a traffic accident in New York.
1943, January 7. He died at the New Yorker Hotel in New York.
The death of Nikola Tesla
Already in old age, Tesla was hit by a passenger car, he received a fractured ribs. The disease caused acute pneumonia, which turned into a chronic form. Tesla was bedridden.
War broke out in Europe. Tesla was deeply worried about his homeland, which was in occupation, repeatedly making hot calls in defense of peace to all Slavs (in 1943, after his death, the first guards division of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was named after Nikola Tesla for its courage and heroism ).
On January 1, 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the United States, expressed a desire to visit a sick Tesla. Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United States, Sava Kosanovich (who was Tesla's nephew), visited him on January 5 and made an appointment. He was the last person to communicate with Tesla.
Tesla died of heart failure on the night of January 7-8, 1943. Tesla always demanded that no one bother him, there was even a special sign on the door of his hotel room in New York. The body was discovered by the maid and director of the New Yorker Hotel only 2 days after his death. On January 12, the body was cremated, and an urn with ashes was installed at Ferncliffe Cemetery in New York. Later it was moved to the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
War broke out in Europe. Tesla was deeply worried about his homeland, which was in occupation, repeatedly making hot calls in defense of peace to all Slavs (in 1943, after his death, the first guards division of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was named after Nikola Tesla for its courage and heroism ).
On January 1, 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the United States, expressed a desire to visit a sick Tesla. Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United States, Sava Kosanovich (who was Tesla's nephew), visited him on January 5 and made an appointment. He was the last person to communicate with Tesla.
Tesla died of heart failure on the night of January 7-8, 1943. Tesla always demanded that no one bother him, there was even a special sign on the door of his hotel room in New York. The body was discovered by the maid and director of the New Yorker Hotel only 2 days after his death. On January 12, the body was cremated, and an urn with ashes was installed at Ferncliffe Cemetery in New York. Later it was moved to the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
Nikola Tesla's inventions and scientific works
Alternating current
Since 1889, Tesla began researching high-frequency and high-voltage currents. He invented the first samples of HF electromechanical generators (including the inductor type) and a high-frequency transformer (Tesla's transformer, 1891), thereby creating the prerequisites for the development of a new branch of electrical engineering - HF technology.
In the course of research on high-frequency currents, Tesla paid attention to safety issues. Experimenting on his body, he studied the effect of alternating currents of various frequencies and strengths on the human body. Many of the rules first developed by Tesla have become part of the modern safety fundamentals for working with HF currents. He found that at a current frequency of more than 700 Hz, an electric current flows over the surface of the body without harming the tissues of the body. Electrical devices developed by Tesla for medical research are widely used in the world.
Experiments with high-frequency high-voltage currents led the inventor to the discovery of a method for cleaning contaminated surfaces. A similar effect of currents on the skin showed that in this way it is possible to remove small rashes, unclog pores and kill microbes. This method is used in modern electrotherapy.
Since 1889, Tesla began researching high-frequency and high-voltage currents. He invented the first samples of HF electromechanical generators (including the inductor type) and a high-frequency transformer (Tesla's transformer, 1891), thereby creating the prerequisites for the development of a new branch of electrical engineering - HF technology.
In the course of research on high-frequency currents, Tesla paid attention to safety issues. Experimenting on his body, he studied the effect of alternating currents of various frequencies and strengths on the human body. Many of the rules first developed by Tesla have become part of the modern safety fundamentals for working with HF currents. He found that at a current frequency of more than 700 Hz, an electric current flows over the surface of the body without harming the tissues of the body. Electrical devices developed by Tesla for medical research are widely used in the world.
Experiments with high-frequency high-voltage currents led the inventor to the discovery of a method for cleaning contaminated surfaces. A similar effect of currents on the skin showed that in this way it is possible to remove small rashes, unclog pores and kill microbes. This method is used in modern electrotherapy.
Field theory
On October 12, 1887, Tesla gave a rigorous scientific description of the essence of the phenomenon of a rotating magnetic field. On May 1, 1888, Tesla received his main patents for the invention of polyphase electrical machines (including an asynchronous electric motor) and a polyphase alternating current transmission system. Using the two-phase system, which he considered the most economical, a number of industrial electrical installations were launched in the United States, including the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station (1895), the largest in those years.
On October 12, 1887, Tesla gave a rigorous scientific description of the essence of the phenomenon of a rotating magnetic field. On May 1, 1888, Tesla received his main patents for the invention of polyphase electrical machines (including an asynchronous electric motor) and a polyphase alternating current transmission system. Using the two-phase system, which he considered the most economical, a number of industrial electrical installations were launched in the United States, including the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station (1895), the largest in those years.
Radio
Tesla was one of the first to patent a method for reliably obtaining currents that can be used in radio communications. U.S. patent Patent 447 920, issued in the United States on March 10, 1891, described the "Method of Operating Arc-Lamps" in which an alternator produced high frequency (by the standards of the time) current oscillations of the order of 10,000 Hz. A patented innovation was a method of suppressing the sound produced by an arc lamp under the influence of an alternating or pulsating current, for which Tesla came up with the use of frequencies that are beyond the perception of human hearing. According to the current classification, the alternator operated in the very low radio frequency range.
Tesla was one of the first to patent a method for reliably obtaining currents that can be used in radio communications. U.S. patent Patent 447 920, issued in the United States on March 10, 1891, described the "Method of Operating Arc-Lamps" in which an alternator produced high frequency (by the standards of the time) current oscillations of the order of 10,000 Hz. A patented innovation was a method of suppressing the sound produced by an arc lamp under the influence of an alternating or pulsating current, for which Tesla came up with the use of frequencies that are beyond the perception of human hearing. According to the current classification, the alternator operated in the very low radio frequency range.
Radio
In 1891, in a public lecture, Tesla described and demonstrated the principles of radio communication. In 1893 he came to grips with wireless communication and invented a mast antenna.
In 1893, Tesla built the first wave radio transmitter, ahead of Marconi and Popov by several years.
In 1943, the US Supreme Court confirmed Tesla's primacy in this invention.
In 1891, in a public lecture, Tesla described and demonstrated the principles of radio communication. In 1893 he came to grips with wireless communication and invented a mast antenna.
In 1893, Tesla built the first wave radio transmitter, ahead of Marconi and Popov by several years.
In 1943, the US Supreme Court confirmed Tesla's primacy in this invention.
Tesla demonstrates the principles of radio communication, 1891
Resonance
Tesla coils are still sometimes used precisely for producing long spark discharges, reminiscent of lightning. In 1998, Stanford engineer Greg Leigh showed the public the "lightning on demand" effect by standing in a metal cage under a giant Tesla circuit and controlling the lightning with a metal "magic wand." He recently launched a fundraising campaign to build two more Tesla Towers in the southwestern United States. The project will cost $ 6 million. However, the lightning tamer hoped to recoup the costs by selling the installation to the Federal Aviation Administration. With the help of it, aviators will be able to study what happens to aircraft caught in a thunderstorm.
In one of the scientific journals, Tesla talked about experiments with a mechanical oscillator, which can be destroyed by tuning it to the resonant frequency of any object. In the article, Tesla said that he connected the device to one of the beams of the house, after a while the house began to shake, and a small earthquake began. Tesla took a hammer and smashed the invention. Tesla told the arriving firefighters and policemen that it was a natural earthquake, he told his assistants to be silent about this case.
Tesla coils are still sometimes used precisely for producing long spark discharges, reminiscent of lightning. In 1998, Stanford engineer Greg Leigh showed the public the "lightning on demand" effect by standing in a metal cage under a giant Tesla circuit and controlling the lightning with a metal "magic wand." He recently launched a fundraising campaign to build two more Tesla Towers in the southwestern United States. The project will cost $ 6 million. However, the lightning tamer hoped to recoup the costs by selling the installation to the Federal Aviation Administration. With the help of it, aviators will be able to study what happens to aircraft caught in a thunderstorm.
In one of the scientific journals, Tesla talked about experiments with a mechanical oscillator, which can be destroyed by tuning it to the resonant frequency of any object. In the article, Tesla said that he connected the device to one of the beams of the house, after a while the house began to shake, and a small earthquake began. Tesla took a hammer and smashed the invention. Tesla told the arriving firefighters and policemen that it was a natural earthquake, he told his assistants to be silent about this case.
Renewable energy sources
Tesla was an active supporter of renewable energy sources 120 years ago.
In 1900, in the periodical The Century, he wrote the article "The Challenge of Growing Human Energy Consumption with Special Notes on the Use of Solar Energy." In it, Tesla discussed how the power of the sun and wind could be used. Even then, people used up the earth's resources too quickly and ineffectively, burning in furnaces the most common fuel at that time - coal. As far as coal is concerned, they only used 2 percent of its energy.
On this occasion, Mark Twain once said: "A person who stops this senseless waste, would become a great benefactor for humanity." By the way, the great prose writer was always interested in science and spoke about it with enthusiasm, this connected him with Nikola Tesla, whom he called his friend.
Tesla was an active supporter of renewable energy sources 120 years ago.
In 1900, in the periodical The Century, he wrote the article "The Challenge of Growing Human Energy Consumption with Special Notes on the Use of Solar Energy." In it, Tesla discussed how the power of the sun and wind could be used. Even then, people used up the earth's resources too quickly and ineffectively, burning in furnaces the most common fuel at that time - coal. As far as coal is concerned, they only used 2 percent of its energy.
On this occasion, Mark Twain once said: "A person who stops this senseless waste, would become a great benefactor for humanity." By the way, the great prose writer was always interested in science and spoke about it with enthusiasm, this connected him with Nikola Tesla, whom he called his friend.
Some modern applications of Tesla's ideas
The brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla created over 800 inventions, and only 300 of them were patented. It's hard to list all of Nikola Tesla's inventions. Only the main directions of his inventions.
Multi-phase AC and numerous AC devices and devices, including numerous electric motors and transformers. Tesla's invention of multi-phase alternating current opened a new era in electrical engineering - an era of thousands of kilometres of electric power transmission for supplying tens of thousands of factories and plants providing mass production. Every transmission tower on Earth, every power plant, every generator and electric motor is a monument to Tesla. Electric generators are the main elements in the generation of electricity at the hydroelectric power station, the nuclear power plant, the thermal power plant etc. Electric motors, first created by Nikola Tesla, are used in all modern machines, electric trains, electric cars, trams, trolleybuses.
Electronic and fluorescent lamps, which seem to be the newest invention, he invented more than 100 years ago. He was going to light up the entire Earth's atmosphere. He became the creator of robots, developed the foundations of modern radio communication and telemetry, implemented these ideas in a radio-controlled boat, invented radar, gas turbine. Radio-controlled robotics are widely used not only in children's toys and wireless television and computer devices (remote control), but also in the military, civilian, military, civilian and internal spheres, as well as the external security of countries etc. . Working on the idea of transferring information and energy around the globe, he discovered high-frequency current, X-ray radiation, and the effects of this radiation on the human body long before X-ray. He invented a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. A way to detect submarines and many, many other things.
Multi-phase AC and numerous AC devices and devices, including numerous electric motors and transformers. Tesla's invention of multi-phase alternating current opened a new era in electrical engineering - an era of thousands of kilometres of electric power transmission for supplying tens of thousands of factories and plants providing mass production. Every transmission tower on Earth, every power plant, every generator and electric motor is a monument to Tesla. Electric generators are the main elements in the generation of electricity at the hydroelectric power station, the nuclear power plant, the thermal power plant etc. Electric motors, first created by Nikola Tesla, are used in all modern machines, electric trains, electric cars, trams, trolleybuses.
Electronic and fluorescent lamps, which seem to be the newest invention, he invented more than 100 years ago. He was going to light up the entire Earth's atmosphere. He became the creator of robots, developed the foundations of modern radio communication and telemetry, implemented these ideas in a radio-controlled boat, invented radar, gas turbine. Radio-controlled robotics are widely used not only in children's toys and wireless television and computer devices (remote control), but also in the military, civilian, military, civilian and internal spheres, as well as the external security of countries etc. . Working on the idea of transferring information and energy around the globe, he discovered high-frequency current, X-ray radiation, and the effects of this radiation on the human body long before X-ray. He invented a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. A way to detect submarines and many, many other things.
Monument to Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls
Nikola Tesla's 10 most surprising predictions
Many of the predictions of Nikola Tesla, one of the most famous inventors in the world, have already come true, and some may happen in the near future.
Predicted the emergence of the Internet, wireless communications, and standalone gadgets and smartphones in 1926.
In an interview with John B. Kennedy, Tesla explained how wireless energy can help us communicate over great distances:
"When wireless is applied perfectly, the whole earth will become a huge brain, which in fact it is, since all things are part of a real and rhythmic whole. We will be able to communicate with each other instantly, no matter how far away we are. We will see and hear each other as well as if we were standing face to face. The tools thanks to which we can do this will not be as bulky as today's phones, people will carry these things in their pockets. "
In an interview with John B. Kennedy, Tesla explained how wireless energy can help us communicate over great distances:
"When wireless is applied perfectly, the whole earth will become a huge brain, which in fact it is, since all things are part of a real and rhythmic whole. We will be able to communicate with each other instantly, no matter how far away we are. We will see and hear each other as well as if we were standing face to face. The tools thanks to which we can do this will not be as bulky as today's phones, people will carry these things in their pockets. "
Tesla envisioned a wireless device that would incorporate video and telephone technology and work over a network very much like the Internet.
Doesn't this description by Tesla from 1926 sound like a smartphone to you?
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."
Doesn't this description by Tesla from 1926 sound like a smartphone to you?
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."
It follows that a guy who was very much obsessed with wireless technology could envision wi-fi and how wireless devices would work:
"Present wireless receiving apparatus will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all forms of interference will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that the household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during the night. Domestic management—the problems of heat, light and household mechanics—will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power."
"Present wireless receiving apparatus will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all forms of interference will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that the household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during the night. Domestic management—the problems of heat, light and household mechanics—will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power."
Yes, he believed it would happen. 120 years have passed, but mankind has not yet brought his project to life.
"As early as 1898, I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgement".
"As early as 1898, I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgement".
One of Tesla's lifelong projects involved wireless transmission of energy across great distances. He saw it as a potential revolution in energy generation and consumption. This is something we are still struggling to understand and implement.
Here's how he described the idea in this 1926 interview with Collier's Magazine:
"When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires—they were telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train."
Tesla's work on a power generator that could transmit energy wirelessly actually did result in the partial construction of the Tower of Power in 1904 in Shoreham, Long Island, New York. It was 187 feet high, while its spherical top was 68 feet in diameter. The tower was curiously destroyed in 1917 by the U.S. Government on suspicion of it being used by German spies.
This is how Tesla described what he was trying to accomplish:
"My power generator will be of the simplest kind - just a big mass of steel, copper and aluminum, comprising a stationary and rotating part, peculiarly assembled. I am planning to develop electricity and transmit it to a distance by my alternating system now universally established. The direct current system could also be employed if the heretofore insuperable difficulties of insulating the transmission lines can be overcome.
Such a source of power obtainable everywhere will solve many problems with which the human race is confronted. My alternating system has been the means of harnessing 30,000,000 horsepower of waterpower, and there are projects now going on all over the world which will eventually double that amount. But, unfortunately, there is not enough water power to satisfy the present needs, and everywhere inventors and engineers are endeavoring to unlock some additional store of energy."
Here's how he described the idea in this 1926 interview with Collier's Magazine:
"When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial, transport and transmission will be revolutionized. Already motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a short distance. Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires—they were telegraphed successfully through the point system thirty years ago. When wireless transmission of power becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the steam locomotive compared with the electric train."
Tesla's work on a power generator that could transmit energy wirelessly actually did result in the partial construction of the Tower of Power in 1904 in Shoreham, Long Island, New York. It was 187 feet high, while its spherical top was 68 feet in diameter. The tower was curiously destroyed in 1917 by the U.S. Government on suspicion of it being used by German spies.
This is how Tesla described what he was trying to accomplish:
"My power generator will be of the simplest kind - just a big mass of steel, copper and aluminum, comprising a stationary and rotating part, peculiarly assembled. I am planning to develop electricity and transmit it to a distance by my alternating system now universally established. The direct current system could also be employed if the heretofore insuperable difficulties of insulating the transmission lines can be overcome.
Such a source of power obtainable everywhere will solve many problems with which the human race is confronted. My alternating system has been the means of harnessing 30,000,000 horsepower of waterpower, and there are projects now going on all over the world which will eventually double that amount. But, unfortunately, there is not enough water power to satisfy the present needs, and everywhere inventors and engineers are endeavoring to unlock some additional store of energy."
This idea follows from the ability to transmit energy without wires over long distances.
"Perhaps the most valuable application of wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying machines, which will carry no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the present airplanes and dirigibles. We shall ride from New York to Europe in a few hours. International boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great step will be made toward the unification and harmonious existence of the various races inhabiting the globe. Wireless will not only make possible the supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it will be effective politically by harmonizing international interests; it will create understanding instead of differences."
"Perhaps the most valuable application of wireless energy will be the propulsion of flying machines, which will carry no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the present airplanes and dirigibles. We shall ride from New York to Europe in a few hours. International boundaries will be largely obliterated and a great step will be made toward the unification and harmonious existence of the various races inhabiting the globe. Wireless will not only make possible the supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it will be effective politically by harmonizing international interests; it will create understanding instead of differences."
Tesla worked on a particle beam weapon in the later years of his life that he hoped would end all wars. It would be so powerful that it would easily destroy anything the enemy would throw your way, even hundreds of miles away. If every country had such a weapon, war would be meaningless. While the ray was never built (and the plans for it mysteriously lost), the concept of mutually assured description was the cornerstone of the Cold War, as the sides with nuclear weapons did not dare attack each other.
As an intriguing side note, the man charged by the FBI with going over Tesla's notes after his death was none other than the M.I.T. Professor John G. Trump, the uncle of the current U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump. He concluded that there was nothing useful in Tesla's paperwork, but it wouldn't be the first time a government agency didn't tell the whole truth, would it?
As an intriguing side note, the man charged by the FBI with going over Tesla's notes after his death was none other than the M.I.T. Professor John G. Trump, the uncle of the current U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump. He concluded that there was nothing useful in Tesla's paperwork, but it wouldn't be the first time a government agency didn't tell the whole truth, would it?
He expanded on some seemingly outlandish ideas in an interview in 1933. In modern application, this particular invention would be more like an MRI, which can do some of what Tesla is talking about here:
"I expect to photograph thoughts. In 1893, while engaged in certain investigations, I became convinced that a definite image formed in thought, must by reflex action, produce a corresponding image on the retina, which might be read by a suitable apparatus…Now if it be true that a thought reflects an image on the retina, it is a mere question of illuminating the same property and taking photographs, and then using the ordinary methods which are available to project the image on a screen… If this can be done successfully, then the objects imagined by a person would be clearly reflected on the screen as they are formed, and in this way every thought of the individual could be read. Our minds would then, indeed, be like open books."
"I expect to photograph thoughts. In 1893, while engaged in certain investigations, I became convinced that a definite image formed in thought, must by reflex action, produce a corresponding image on the retina, which might be read by a suitable apparatus…Now if it be true that a thought reflects an image on the retina, it is a mere question of illuminating the same property and taking photographs, and then using the ordinary methods which are available to project the image on a screen… If this can be done successfully, then the objects imagined by a person would be clearly reflected on the screen as they are formed, and in this way every thought of the individual could be read. Our minds would then, indeed, be like open books."
Perhaps it goes without saying that any vision of the future would include flying cars. Tesla's was no different. Perhaps we finally get this in the next few years?
"I foresee the development of the flying machine exceeding that of the automobile, and I expect Mr. Ford to make large contributions toward this progress. The problem of parking automobiles and furnishing separate roads for commercial and pleasure traffic will be solved. Belted parking towers will arise in our large cities, and the roads will be multiplied through sheer necessity, or finally rendered unnecessary when civilization exchanges wheels for wings."
"I foresee the development of the flying machine exceeding that of the automobile, and I expect Mr. Ford to make large contributions toward this progress. The problem of parking automobiles and furnishing separate roads for commercial and pleasure traffic will be solved. Belted parking towers will arise in our large cities, and the roads will be multiplied through sheer necessity, or finally rendered unnecessary when civilization exchanges wheels for wings."
Tesla demonstrated a remote controlled boat at an Electrical Exhibition at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1898. His antennae-equipped 4-foot-long boat went around a small pool of water, flashing lights and was perceived largely as magic. Military minds saw this boat's potential application as a torpedo, while Tesla conceived of a variety of uses for remote-controlled machines, a fact we can testify to today. We have numerous remote controlled devices all over our houses and the military has certainly made much use of long distance weaponry, from missiles to drones.
While this isn't a technological invention, Tesla very much envisioned a world when women would hold traditionally male jobs and would, in fact, become "superior" to them. As the U.S. Presidential election features the first-ever female nominee for the world's highest office, Tesla's predictions in this matter might be reaching an apex.
"This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior.
"This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior.
According to some testimonies:
According to one of the legends, at the time of Nikola's birth there was a strong thunderstorm and the midwife insisted that the newborn would be a child of darkness, since thunder was considered a bad sign. But Tesla's mother replied: "No, he will be a child of light."
Later, Nikola often contemplated the dazzling flashes of light in front of him, blurring his vision. He could not understand what was real and what was not. Growing up, Tesla used this power in his research. It seems that the mother was right, the thunder predicted that Nikola would be a scientist and bring light to people, thanks to the widespread introduction of electric lighting based on the AC system.
Later, Nikola often contemplated the dazzling flashes of light in front of him, blurring his vision. He could not understand what was real and what was not. Growing up, Tesla used this power in his research. It seems that the mother was right, the thunder predicted that Nikola would be a scientist and bring light to people, thanks to the widespread introduction of electric lighting based on the AC system.
Nikola was very sensitive to external stimuli. He claimed to have heard thunder 900 kilometers away. And also, he could hear the ticking of a pocket watch that was three rooms away from him, or a fly landed deafly on the table. While in college, the sound of a locomotive 50 kilometers away was deafening to him. Doctors believed it was a problem with the nerves, or rather a nervous breakdown. Sensory overload was largely unexplored in those days. (Sensory overload occurs when one or more senses are overstimulated by the environment.)
When Nikola was a child, he used his imagination to calm himself after nightmares.
The young genius could memorize entire books and photographs in just a few minutes of viewing. Nicola claimed to have power, as he himself called it "brain engineering."
The uniqueness of Tesla was that he could visualize in detail all inventions in his own head and conduct "sea trials" with them, while not making any notes. For example, he came up with his electric motor on a walk in Budapest Park, while reading Goethe's book "Faust".
Suddenly, an image of a rotating magnetic field appeared in his head, putting the book aside, he immediately drew a diagram of it in the sand. The mind of this extraordinary man kept many incomprehensible secrets.
The young genius could memorize entire books and photographs in just a few minutes of viewing. Nicola claimed to have power, as he himself called it "brain engineering."
The uniqueness of Tesla was that he could visualize in detail all inventions in his own head and conduct "sea trials" with them, while not making any notes. For example, he came up with his electric motor on a walk in Budapest Park, while reading Goethe's book "Faust".
Suddenly, an image of a rotating magnetic field appeared in his head, putting the book aside, he immediately drew a diagram of it in the sand. The mind of this extraordinary man kept many incomprehensible secrets.
Tesla often went to Central Park to feed them. He brought the wounded birds to his home, which caused complaints of noise and smell from the residents of the hotel. Before his death, he lived in a New York hotel on the 33rd floor, in apartment number 3327.
He often spent time with pigeons. Tesla especially loved one white dove. Once, when he was lying in bed thinking, a bird flew into the room. He claimed there was a blinding light in her eyes. He continued to care for her even when she fell ill. He spent $ 2000 on a sick feathered friend. The scientist built a device that supported the bird while its wing and leg healed.
"I have fed thousands of pigeons over the years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, clean, white, with light gray tips on its wings. It was a female. I loved this dove as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. While I had it, there was a purpose in my life. "
He often spent time with pigeons. Tesla especially loved one white dove. Once, when he was lying in bed thinking, a bird flew into the room. He claimed there was a blinding light in her eyes. He continued to care for her even when she fell ill. He spent $ 2000 on a sick feathered friend. The scientist built a device that supported the bird while its wing and leg healed.
"I have fed thousands of pigeons over the years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, clean, white, with light gray tips on its wings. It was a female. I loved this dove as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. While I had it, there was a purpose in my life. "
He was guided by inspiration and considerations of benefits for all people, not earnings or profit. I spent all my savings on research and inventions of ways to improve the lives of all people on the planet. As a result, as we know, he became a victim of a conspiracy of a number of capitalists, and his works began to be subject to obstruction and criticism. Despite this, he continued to work and invent.
From the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, he moved to St. Regis, as he had huge unpaid bills. Actually for the same reason he was evicted from St. Regis, but in addition to arrears in payment, on top of everything else, his neighbors made claims for the discomfort and confusion created by his attachment to pigeons. Then he continued to move, but to cheaper hotels, but the bills were still unpaid. As a result, his former employer, Westinghouse, began paying rent and paying the genius $ 125 a month in "his consulting fees." Apparently the company was worried that the poor scientist was damaging their reputation. Tesla also received a modest Serbian pension until his death.
From the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, he moved to St. Regis, as he had huge unpaid bills. Actually for the same reason he was evicted from St. Regis, but in addition to arrears in payment, on top of everything else, his neighbors made claims for the discomfort and confusion created by his attachment to pigeons. Then he continued to move, but to cheaper hotels, but the bills were still unpaid. As a result, his former employer, Westinghouse, began paying rent and paying the genius $ 125 a month in "his consulting fees." Apparently the company was worried that the poor scientist was damaging their reputation. Tesla also received a modest Serbian pension until his death.
It is believed that the death of his brother Dane was such a great shock for little Nikola that it influenced his behavior and penchant for mysticism. Over the years, after the tragedy, Tesla had vivid visions of a fiery sphere surrounding him. Only as a teenager did he learn to control his mind. As he grew older, he was able not only to take control of his transcendental states, but also to deliberately evoke them and, if necessary, strengthen them. Tesla even claimed to be able to communicate with the pigeons he fed in New York's central park. But these are not the only strange things he did.
People around him thought Tesla was crazy
There is a possibility that today's doctors would diagnose Nikola Tesla as an autism spectrum disorder. According to Professor Michael Fitzgerald and Brendan O'Brien, co-authors of How Asperger's Talents Changed the World, Tesla would be diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome today. He suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which destroyed his reputation as a result. He hated round objects, jewelry, and touching someone's hair. Tesla paid great attention to his work. He claimed that only 2 hours a day was enough for him to sleep. He worked from 9 am to 6 pm. Then he had dinner at exactly 8.10 and continued to work until 3 in the morning. But despite lack of sleep and a lot of work, he lived to be 87 years old. Tesla was also a fan of the number 3, as well as numbers that can be divided by 3. That only cost his weirdness to wash his hands 3 times in a row. He walked around his building 3 times before entering it. The scientist used 18 handkerchiefs to dry the dining table and cutlery before each meal. Just as he contracted cholera as a teenager, he had a panic fear of germs.
People around him thought Tesla was crazy
There is a possibility that today's doctors would diagnose Nikola Tesla as an autism spectrum disorder. According to Professor Michael Fitzgerald and Brendan O'Brien, co-authors of How Asperger's Talents Changed the World, Tesla would be diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome today. He suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which destroyed his reputation as a result. He hated round objects, jewelry, and touching someone's hair. Tesla paid great attention to his work. He claimed that only 2 hours a day was enough for him to sleep. He worked from 9 am to 6 pm. Then he had dinner at exactly 8.10 and continued to work until 3 in the morning. But despite lack of sleep and a lot of work, he lived to be 87 years old. Tesla was also a fan of the number 3, as well as numbers that can be divided by 3. That only cost his weirdness to wash his hands 3 times in a row. He walked around his building 3 times before entering it. The scientist used 18 handkerchiefs to dry the dining table and cutlery before each meal. Just as he contracted cholera as a teenager, he had a panic fear of germs.
There is a possibility that today's doctors would diagnose Nikola Tesla as an autism spectrum disorder. According to Professor Michael Fitzgerald and Brendan O'Brien, co-authors of How Asperger's Talents Changed the World, Tesla would be diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome today. He suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which destroyed his reputation as a result. He hated round objects, jewelry, and touching someone's hair. Tesla paid great attention to his work. He claimed that only 2 hours a day was enough for him to sleep. He worked from 9 am to 6 pm. Then he had dinner at exactly 8.10 and continued to work until 3 in the morning. But despite lack of sleep and a lot of work, he lived to be 87 years old. Tesla was also a fan of the number 3, as well as numbers that can be divided by 3. That only cost his weirdness to wash his hands 3 times in a row. He walked around his building 3 times before entering it. The scientist used 18 handkerchiefs to dry the dining table and cutlery before each meal. Just as he contracted cholera as a teenager, he had a panic fear of germs.
Perpetuation of the memory of
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Statue of Nikola Tesla in front of Saint Sava Orthodox Church, Manhattan, New York
In many countries there are monuments to Nikola Tesla, for example, in New York (see above), at the Belgrade airport and near the building of the University of Belgrade. The SI unit of magnetic induction is named after Tesla. A jubilee Serbian coin dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Tesla was issued, 2006.
Tesla is depicted on the banknote of the SFRY 1978. In the center of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, there is a street named after Nikola Tesla, on which a monument to the great scientist is erected.
In Croatia, in the resort town of Porec (Croatian Poreč), located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, there is an embankment named after Nikola Tesla. Streets in Sibenik, Split, Rijeka, Varazdin are named after Tesla. The airport in the Belgrade suburb of Surcin was named after Nikola Tesla.
Tesla is depicted on the banknote of the SFRY 1978. In the center of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, there is a street named after Nikola Tesla, on which a monument to the great scientist is erected.
In Croatia, in the resort town of Porec (Croatian Poreč), located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, there is an embankment named after Nikola Tesla. Streets in Sibenik, Split, Rijeka, Varazdin are named after Tesla. The airport in the Belgrade suburb of Surcin was named after Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
5 lessons we can learn
from the life of Nikola Tesla
1. Genius is born with you, and grows in conditions of freedom of thought, open scientific knowledge and hard work on its development.
2. The market economy opposes the introduction of innovations and the harmonious development of mankind, is antagonistic (disgusting)
to nature itself.
3. It's okay if people don't understand yet and oppose your ideas. Create a useful prototype and donate it to the community
4. We live in a quantum world. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
5. Work honestly for the good of all sentient beings and the future will respect you.
from the life of Nikola Tesla
1. Genius is born with you, and grows in conditions of freedom of thought, open scientific knowledge and hard work on its development.
2. The market economy opposes the introduction of innovations and the harmonious development of mankind, is antagonistic (disgusting)
to nature itself.
3. It's okay if people don't understand yet and oppose your ideas. Create a useful prototype and donate it to the community
4. We live in a quantum world. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
5. Work honestly for the good of all sentient beings and the future will respect you.
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