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Nikola Tesla—The Man Who Electrified The World!! |
| "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4). |
To and fro means BACK AND FORTH as is the direction of flow of alternating current!!
Tesla had an older brother named DANIEL who was killed by a horse when Nikola was 7 years old. Had that brother lived, we might have had 2 electrical geniuses to torment Rockefeller and Morgan instead of only one!!
Nikola Tesla would be 152 years old if he was still alive today. Tesla expected to live to at least 140 because of the longevity of his ancestors and the fact that he gave himself a daily bath of high frequency electric current. He also invented many electrotheraputic devices that he claimed could heal all diseases.
He never patented these devices but gave his discoveries in the field of diathermy freely to doctors to develop.
Electrical genius Nicola Tesla was born in Serbia in 1856
Young Nikola Tesla. |
Nicola Tesla (July 10, 1856 to January 7, 1943), was the discoverer of the alternating current light and power system in use all over the world today. His inventions should have made him a multimillionaire but he died in relative poverty. He was a true martyr for science and human progress. Most of his great inventions are now used as weapons of mass destruction by the Pentagon!! |
Nikola Tesla as an elderly man. |
In 1884, a poor Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States—at that time the land of the free....Though he was poor in this world's goods, he was rich in ideas that would eventually light up the United States . . . and the entire world.
While walking in Budapest Park, Hungary, Nikola Tesla had seen a vision of a functioning alternating current (AC) electric induction motor. This was one of the most revolutionary inventions in the entire history of the world.
Tesla
actually offered his invention to a German company in Strassburg, Alsace,
then a part of Germany. Here is what happened: The U.S.
manager of the French branch of the Edison Company advised him to seek
his fortune in the New World. On the way to the boat he actually lost
all his possessions and he arrived in New York with 4 cents in his pocket. After
Sept., 20, 1870, millions of Roman
Catholic immigrants from Europe were pouring into this country, and their
only interest in the United States was its vast economic and
military potential to restore the lost Papal States to their master in
Rome. Tesla
was Greek Orthodox and only interested in the use of electricity to ease
the heavy burdens of his fellow human beings. Tesla
worked for Thomas Alva Edison for 1 year!! Edison
was locked into direct current and would not change for anything. DC had
very severe limitations, and was not practicable for long distance electrical
transmission. Thomas Alva
Edison (1847-1931). Edison's DC
system was huge and only good for very short distances. DC - Direct
Current was just the CRUMBS that fell from the table of the Almighty's
infinite store of witty electrical inventions. Every home
would have to have a huge dynamo installed in the basement to
light the house. A tool of
Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, Edison fought Tesla's system with
hellish fury. Humongous
Edison dynamo, circa 1884. Almost
immediately after entering the U.S., Tesla went to work for Edison. Edison
set him to work fixing the many problems with DC dynamos. Tesla had remarkable
mechanical and electrical ability, and Edison promised him $50,000 if
he could fix a particularly perplexing problem with a dynamo.
Tesla
worked for many months and finally the problem was solved. Did Edison
keep his promise and pay him for all his hard work?. . . absolutely
not....Tesla quit the Edison Company in disgust:
After
quitting the Edison Company, Tesla had to work as a manual laborer for
a year digging the streets of New York. This was the worst time in his
life as a poor stranger in a strange land....He was befriended by the
foreman of the work gang who persuaded him to form his own company. Tesla
demonstrated his AC motor to the U.S. Institute of Electrical Engineers In
1888, Tesla held a lecture before the U.S. Institute of Electrical Engineers
in New York City. This lecture brought his alternating current system
before the world at last. Tesla's
famous 1888 lecture before the U.S. Institute of Electrical
Engineers at Columbia College in NYC. Tesla finally
gained recognition for his world changing invention in 1888
when he lectured before the U.S. Institute of Electrical Engineers.
An inventor
and industrialist named George Westinghouse gave his AC system
to the world. One of Tesla's
2 phase induction motors. When linked to his polyphase method
of generating and transmitting electricity, this motor became
the foundation stone on which the modern electrical power industry
is built. George
Westinghouse brought Tesla's polyphase system to the world!! In
spite of all the advantages of the AC system, Edison refused to acknowledge
its superiority over his system, and inventor George Westinghouse of
Pittsburgh came to his rescue. As a matter of fact, Edison sulked like
a spoilt child, and started what became known in U.S. history as the
War of the Currents, or the battles between AC and DC. Inventor
George Westinghouse (1846-1914). George Westinghouse
was already world famous as the inventor of the locomotive air
brake. His decision
to adopt Tesla's AC system changed the world forever.
Tesla
and Westinghouse made a perfect partnership. By
1886, the Westinghouse Company was one of the biggest and most successful
in the entire world. Westinghouse
was a Protestant Christian gentleman and totally unlike the robber barons
of that era....His motto was the golden rule, and his employees shared
in the success of his company. He believed in doing his good works in
secret, and many charities throughout the country were helped by his
largess. He
offered to buy all the AC patents from Tesla for the staggering sum
of 1 million dollars cash and royalties of $1.00 per horsepower of electricity
produced. Tesla became an
instant millionaire!! Unlike
Edison, George Westinghouse was a man of his word, and offered Tesla
a staggering sum for all his AC patents: Tesla electrified
Niagara Falls!! In
1895, the Westinghouse Company and Nicola Tesla built the first hydroelectric
alternating current system at Niagara Falls. Tesla was determined that
the awesome power of the Falls should be harnessed to the awesome power
of polyphase alternating current. Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada. Tesla Monument
at Niagara Falls, unveiled on July 9, 2006. Tesla is standing
atop an AC motor, one of the 700 inventions he patented.
Tesla Monument
at Goat Island, Niagara Falls, New York. A gift of Yugoslavia
to the United States in 1976. The War of the
Currents almost bankrupted the Westinghouse Company!! By
1897, the War of the Currents between AC and DC or between Westinghouse
and Edison continued unabated. In 1895, Tesla's laboratory in New
York City was totally destroyed by fire. Half a lifetime of priceless
inventions were destroyed. Tesla usually worked through the night,
but that particular night he was not in his shop, and miraculously
escaped death. Huge
mergers took place between J. P. Morgan and Rockefeller controlled
companies like Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric to form
the present day General Electric Company. This new General Electric
Company tried to take over Westinghouse and force them to abandon
AC. They insisted that Westinghouse STOP paying royalties to Tesla: Tesla
saved the Westinghouse Electric Company by tearing up his royalty
contract!! In
one of the most magnanimous acts ever recorded in human history, Tesla
tore up his royalty contract with George Westinghouse in order to
save his company from bankruptcy and the AC system from destruction.
Tesla stood to lose over 12 million dollars in royalty payments: By
cheating him out of millions in royalty payments, Morgan and Rockefeller
put a financial squeeze on the great inventor. Tesla had already lost
a fortune because of the arson to his laboratory, and now he was severely
strapped for cash to perfect his latest inventions. The arsonists
could squeeze him financially, but they could NEVER stop the Niagara
of new inventions that kept flowing from his fertile brain. Tesla's
wireless transmission of electricity In
1899, in Pike's Peak, Colorado, Tesla demonstrated the feasibility of
transmitting electricity through the earth without the use
of wires....He chose Pike's Peak because of its remote location, and
the availability of electricity from a local power station. Tesla's
Colorado laboratory in 1899. Wireless
transmission of electricity to all parts of the earth was the
main objective of Tesla in the famous Pike's Peak experiment.
He also
discovered that tremendously destructive forces could be unleashed
in the earth by means of uncontrolled electrical resonance.
Tesla with
his magnifying transmitter producing millions of volts of electricity.
Tesla
discovered that the earth was a very good conductor of electricity and
that he could set the earth in electrical oscillation just like the
mechanical oscillation that almost caused an earthquake in Manhattan. Tesla's
large scale oscillating apparatus. Power
was supplied to the primary coil by the local power station. The
secondary coil was GROUNDED to the earth, producing waves which
traveled to the opposite side of the world. The
returning waves were discharged through the atmosphere. Tesla's
assistant Kolman Czito prepares to throw the switch during the
Pike's Peak experiment. Here
is an artist's rendition of the wireless Tesla world power system: From the
Electrical Experimenter, February 1919. Construction
began immediately on Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island,
New York. It
was never finished and the project literally bankrupted Tesla.
From the
Electrical Experimenter, February 1919. When
Tesla had demonstrated the feasibility of his wireless power system,
he rushed back to New York to begin construction on a transmitter located
at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, New York. Morgan stonewalled him and created
a panic on Wall St. in 1907. Millionaire John Jacob Astor, Tesla's close
friend and financier, died on the Titanic in 1912. Tesla
financier John Jacob Astor was drowned on the Titanic!! Tesla
stayed at the Waldorf Astoria hotel and commuted to his laboratory in
downtown Manhattan. The hotel was owned by millionaire John Jacob Astor
IV who was a close friend and financier of Tesla: John Jacob
Astor and his young wife Madeleine. Col.
John Jacob Astor IV was a close friend and financier of Tesla. He
was lured aboard the Titanic and perished on her maiden
voyage. Tesla
was now at the mercy of Morgan and his wireless system was sunk
too. Astor was
lost on the Titanic. The
White State line was owned by J.P. Morgan. At the last moment, Morgan
decided not to sail on his ship....Madeleine survived, and according
to John Jacob Astor's will, Madeleine would have received income from
a $5,000,000 trust fund as long as she did not remarry. Tesla,
Einstein, and the luminiferous ether!! Up
to the year 1900, most scientists believed in what was called the luminiferous
ether or simply the ether. This was simply space or the invisible
medium that carries electromagnetic waves. Here is the dictionary definition
of that term: 5. Physics. An
all-pervading, infinitely elastic, massless medium FORMERLY postulated
as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves. The famous Michelson-Morley
experiment of 1887 showed no movement of the earth through the ether.
So what did the "scientists" do?....They simply got rid of the
ether and stated that it did not exist and that was the reason for the
NULL results in the experiment. This
necessitated the invention of Albert
Einstein and his BIZARRE theories of the universe without an ether.
Albert Einstein,
Nikola Tesla and Charles Steinmetz as they appeared in 1921,
in a visit to the transoceanic station, at New Brunswick, NJ.
Einstein
invented absolutely NOTHING that was of any benefit to the human
race. Even the famous
equation E=MC2 was already known in 1875. It seems that
he was just a smokescreen to hide the identity of the great scientist
and inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla had
nothing but contempt for the "physics" of Einstein.
He absolutely believed in the ether and the possibly of taking
electricity out of this ether without splitting the atom and causing
dangerous radiation. Tesla said at a lecture in 1891: "An
infinitesimal world, with the molecules and their atoms spinning
and moving in orbits, in much the same manner as celestial bodies,
carrying with them and probably spinning with them ether,
or in other words, carrying with them static charges,"
he said, "seems to my mind the most probable view, and
one which, in a plausible manner, accounts for most of the phenomena
observed. The spinning of the molecules and their ether
sets up the ether tensions
or electrostatic strains; the equalization of ether
tensions sets up other motions or electric currents, and the
orbital movements produce the effects of electro and permanent
magnetism."(Cheney, Tesla, Man out of Time, p.
52). Strange
is it not how Tesla didn't think about splitting these atoms to obtain
enormous power. He knew that his system of wireless transmission harnessed
to Niagara Falls would provide all the safe, clean power that was necessary
to run the modern industrial world. Nikola
Tesla's electric car After
the AC induction motor, we think that the greatest invention of Tesla
was the electric car. This was no ordinary battery driven car because
this car took its power from the ether, just like an automobile antenna
picks up radio waves from the ether. In
1931, under the financing of Pierce-Arrow and George Westinghouse, a
1931 Pierce-Arrow was selected to be tested at the factory grounds in
Buffalo, N.Y. The standard internal combustion engine was removed and
an 80-H.P. 1800 r.p.m. electric motor installed to the clutch and transmission.
The AC motor measured 40 inches long and 30 inches in diameter and the
power leads were left standing in the air—no external power source
and no recharging of any batteries was necessary. At
the appointed time, Nikola Tesla arrived from New York City and inspected
the Pierce-Arrow automobile. He then went to a local radio store and
purchased a handful of tubes (12), wires and assorted resistors. A box
measuring 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high was assembled
housing the circuit. The box was placed on the front seat and had its
wires connected to the air-cooled, brushless motor. Two rods 1/4"
in diameter stuck out of the box about 3" in length.
Mr.
Tesla got into the driver's seat, pushed the two rods in and stated,
"We now have power". He put the car into gear and it moved
forward! This vehicle, powered by an AC motor, was driven to speeds
of 90 m.p.h. and performed better than any internal combustion engine
of its day! One week was spent testing the vehicle. Several newspapers
in Buffalo reported this test. When asked where the power came from,
Tesla replied, "From the ether all around us". Similar
1931 Pierce-Arrow that was converted to electric power by Tesla. Here
is a report of the incident from Tesla biographer Marc J. Seifer: "The
car [was] a standard Pierce Arrow, with the engine removed and
certain other components installed instead. The standard clutch,
gear box, and drive train remained.... Under the hood, there was
a brushless electric motor, connected to [or in place of] the
engine.... Tesla would not divulge who made the motor. Tesla's
electric car drove J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, and Henry Ford CRAZY!! With
the discovery of electricity, everybody expected that all cars would
be electric and run on rechargeable batteries. Tesla had gone one better
and actually produced a working automobile that ran on electricity taken
from the surrounding ether like an antenna picks up radio waves. This
would revolutionize travel just like his AC induction motor had revolutionized
the industrial world. The
3 stooges Morgan, Rockefeller, and Ford had to sabotage his idea at
all costs....No air polluting gasoline engine meant no oil monopoly
for Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. No oil monopoly meant
no excuse for Rockefeller to own the U.S. government, and no excuse
to be involved in foreign countries . . . especially those surrounding
Russia. Bulbous
nosed J.P. Morgan (1837-1913), was the chief enemy of Tesla's
AC system; his wireless transmission system, and his electric
car. He actually died in Rome during a visit to his boss. J.
D. Rockefeller (1838-1937) was the founder of the Standard Oil
Company. His killing of the electric car allowed Standard Oil
to amass a vast fortune which is still pouring into Rockefeller
controlled companies to this very day. Henry
Ford (1863-1947) is "credited" with mass producing
the noisy air polluting gasoline engine. By 1932, Ford controlled
over 1/3 of gasoline engine production worldwide. All of Tesla's papers
were confiscated by the FBI after his death!! As
Tesla approached his final years, most of his close friends and benefactors
were dead. The man who had electrified the planet was almost forgotten
by the world....Most of his last days were spent feeding the pigeons
in Bryant Park in front of the public library on Fifth Ave.
The
great discoverer went to meet the Creator of electricity on Jan. 7,
1943.
Funeral
services were held for Tesla on Jan. 12, 1943, at the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine. Funeral
services were held for the great Serb on Jan. 12, 1943, at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Tesla
was a U.S. citizen, but his body was cremated, and his ashes sent
back to Yugoslavia, where they are on display in an urn in the
Tesla museum. Tesla museum
in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Tesla
was never married and had no direct heirs. He left no will, so all his
papers were seized by the FBI and shipped to Washington City where they
were classified as TOP SECRET. His
inventions were later to become the bases for the weapons of mass destruction
developed by the Pentagon: "The Washington
Bureau of the FBI went so far as to advise the New York Bureau "to
discreetly take the matter up with the State's Attorney in New York
City with the view to possibly taking Kosanovich into custody on a burglary
charge and obtaining the various papers which Kosanovich is reported
to have taken from Tesla's safe." New York was also told to contact
the Surrogate Court so stops could be placed against all of Tesla's
effects, so that no one could enter them without an FBI agent being
present, and New York was to keep Washington advised of all developments."
(Cheney, Tesla: Man out of Time, p. 273). Vital links References Cheney,
Margaret. Tesla, Man out of Time. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1981. Cheney,
Margaret, & Uth, Robert. Tesla, Master of Lightning. Barnes
& Noble Books, New York, 1999. Garbedian,
Gordon H. George Westinghouse: Fabulous Inventor. Dodd, Mead
& Co., New York, 1943. Jones,
Jill, Empires of Light. Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race
to Electrify the World. Random House, New York, 2003. O'
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© 2008 by Niall Kilkenny
"I will give you one million dollars cash for your alternating
current patents, plus royalty," Westinghouse blurted at the startled
Tesla. This tall, suave gentleman, however, gave no outward sign that
he had almost been bowled over by surprise.
"If you will make the royalty one dollar per horsepower, I will
accept the offer," Tesla replied.
"A million cash, a dollar a horsepower royalty," Westinghouse
repeated.
"That is acceptable," said Tesla.
"Sold," said Westinghouse. "You will receive a check
and a contract in a few days."
Here was a case of two great men, each possessed with the power of seeing
visions of the future on a gigantic panorama, and each with complete
faith in the other, arranging a tremendous transaction with utter disregard
of details."
(O'Neill, Prodigal Genius, pp. 74-75).
"Your decision," said the Pittsburgh magnate, "determines
the fate of the Westinghouse Company." "Suppose I should
refuse to give up my contract; what would you do then?" asked
Tesla.
"In that event you would have to deal with the bankers, for I
would no longer have any power in the situation," Westinghouse
replied.
"And if I give up the contract you will save your company and
retain control so you can proceed with your plans to give my polyphase
system to the world?" Tesla continued.
"I believe your polyphase system is the greatest discovery in
the field of electricity," Westinghouse explained. "It was
my efforts to give it to the world that brought on the present difficulty,
but I intend to continue, no matter what happens, to proceed with
my original plans to put the country on an alternating current basis."
"Mr. Westinghouse," said Tesla, drawing himself up to full
height of six feet two inches and beaming down on the Pittsburgh magnate
who was himself a big man, "you have been my friend, you believed
in me when others had no faith; you were brave enough to go ahead
and pay me a million dollars when others lacked courage; you supported
me when even your own engineers lacked vision to see the big things
ahead that you and I saw; you have stood by me as a friend. The benefits
that will come to civilization from my polyphase system mean more
to me than the money involved. Mr. Westinghouse, you will save your
company so that you can develop my inventions. Here is your contract
and here is my contract—I will tear both of them to pieces and
you will no longer have any troubles from my royalties. Is that sufficient?"
Matching his actions to his words Tesla tore up the contract and threw
it in the waste basket; and Westinghouse, thanks to Tesla's magnificent
gesture, was able to return to Pittsburgh and use the facilities of
the reorganized company, which became the present Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, to make good his promise to Tesla to make
his alternating current system available to the world." (O'Neill,
Prodigal Genius, pp. 81-82).
(Webster's Dictionary).
Set into the dash was a "power receiver" consisting
of a box ... containing 12 radio tubes.... A vertical antenna,
consisting of a 6 ft. rod, was installed and connected to the
power receiver [which was] in turn, connected to the motor by
two heavy, conspicuous cables.... Tesla pushed these in before
starting and said: "We now have power."
If this tale is to be believed, it would mean that Tesla had also
installed one of his powerful oscillators somewhere near Niagara
Falls to provide the wireless energy needed to power the vehicle."(Seifer,
Wizard. The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, p. 419).
