Carlos F Velázquez

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
- Nikola Tesla

Happy Birthday (I hope in paradise) Nikola Tesla, born this day according to the Gregorian Calendar.

Your idea of AC power transmission, resisted by your employer Thomas Edison who promoted the inefficient DC power distribution, eventually prevailed. Although General Electric, who overruled Edison and started deploying AC power grids, did not give you any credit or financial benefit from it.

Tim adds:

Edison, a vain and imperious credit stealer, actually electrocuted an elephant to death on stage with AC to "prove" Tesla's idea was dangerous, mainly because Edison didn't understand it and furthermore didn't like being upstaged. If Edison had his way we would have to have power stations on every city block to adequately provide power.

Tesla invented the technology of the modern world. He invented radio prior to Marconi but, due to his own personality quirks, got seduced into listening to radio transmissions from space and so never finished his work on radio. Marconi got the credit and Tesla sued. In the end they were listed as co-discoverers; Marconi had lifted over a dozen patents of Tesla's to create the radio.

Tesla also invented fluorescent lights, a completely different concept than the incandescent (of which Edison's sole contribution was the screw in aspect of the light bulb, not even the bulb itself.)

Tesla devised a way to have cordless electronics, although that idea never caught on.

Two things mentioned in his notebooks have never been found but one wonders; he claimed to have invented a "death ray" that could be used on enemy aircraft as far away as 25 miles, and he also claimed to have invented a way to harvest electricity from the magnetosphere, giving unlimited, nearly free energy. But then Tesla also was going mad at this point, being in love with a pigeon at the time so we can perhaps take these with a grain of salt.

Interestingly enough when Tesla died the government sent a scientist in to evaluate Tesla's notes. That man was Donald Trump's uncle John Trump.

Here is a list of Tesla's many inventions. https://teslasciencecenter.org/nikola-tesla-inventions/

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