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- jtbell04, on 01/11/2009, -0/+61"The Greatest Inventions Thomas Edison Never Created"
1. Everything invented by Tesla.
2. The lightbulb. - articroll, on 01/10/2009, -2/+61i think telsa is a genius past the likes of darwin and einstein, his legacy has been undermined by how far ahead he was, many of his peers saw him as boastful and slightly unhinged, but this is always the way with genius. if you look at where current and future cutting edge military technology is at, especially in the us, tesla stands out as one of the main influences if not the main influence of where development is heading.
harrp and its equivalent in russia, mind control and manipulation based on alpha, beta and delta waves, microwave weapons, particle beam weapons, lazers, emp weapons, star wars defence system the stuff of sci-fi and conspiracy theories. but tesla him self was an humanitarian, who hid loads of his inventions because they could be co-opted by the military, even tho he still gave them some advanced tech. after his death, his work was of great interest which is one reason why we don't get the full story about him, as his ideas were well ahead of his time and many wanted to develop them and keep them secret.
he wasn't only thinking about wireless energy he also believed you could use the same principle to transfer matter, but he had a strong sense of using his abilities for the benefit of human kind where as others saw it as a chance to gain more control, paradox we face on this planet. anyhow i've been gabbing to long so check out these documentaries about his life and how has work has been used in society.
the missing secrets of nikola tesla
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2188562935 ...
the invisible machine
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4515534125 ...
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -1/+51from wiki:
Tesla claims he was offered US$50,000 (~ US$1.1 million in 2007, adjusted for inflation)[30] if he redesigned Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both service and economy.
Tesla said he worked night and day on the project and gave the Edison Company several profitable new patents in the process. In 1885 when Tesla inquired about the payment for his work, Edison replied, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," thus breaking his word.
Earning a mere US$18 per week, Tesla would have had to work for 53 years to earn the amount he was promised. - sumeetg, on 01/10/2009, -1/+50Tesla was one of the greatest engineers of the 20th century.
- JamesBondJr, on 01/10/2009, -5/+48A lot of people don't realized that Tesla was almost more influential than Edison
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+42Edison was an *****. He used negative PR to destroy Tesla's AC idea in favor of DC which was inferior at the time. He also stole a bunch of ideas from and gave false promises of money to Tesla to keep him on payroll for $18 a week, far less than $50,000 he was promised.
- ileftfark, on 01/10/2009, -1/+43Another note about Tesla's 'death ray' - he claimed (and this mofo backed up his claims) that he could fire this thing with pinpoint accuracy for hundreds of miles, completely destroying anything it struck. The biggest limitation to its long-range capacities was the ****** curvature of the earth*. Sadly, because Tesla was also a maniacal, sexless, OCD-having, photographic-memory-boasting dude, most of his plans were never written down, and to this day, there are experiments performed in front of other scientists at the time (such as wireless power from *miles* away) that still cannot be replicated today.
- SpectreFire, on 01/11/2009, -0/+36I've always hated Thomas Edison.
- alexra, on 01/11/2009, -1/+35a lot of people don't realize that tesla invented the light bulb not edison, edison patented the light bulb, he helped, but tesla invented it
- DrZmobie, on 01/11/2009, -0/+31Tesla was the greatest engineer of the 20th century.
Fixed* - ThantiK, on 01/11/2009, -0/+20Tesla has been my fav scientist for years now, a lot of his work goes unappreciated. Edison got a lot of credit not because his name was "more appealing" it's because he was a much better businessman than tesla was. In fact Tesla worked for edison at one point, and against him at another point in time. Really interesting history if you like to read.
- p3ngwin, on 01/11/2009, -0/+17and remember the propaganda fight Edison brought by electrocuting an elephant to "show AC is dangerous".
also Edison invented the electric chair (using AC) for the same reason.
nice guy eh? - Zarokima, on 01/11/2009, -0/+17Edison sucks!
- Sherman901, on 01/10/2009, -1/+17Poor Tesla
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+14Tesla is a badass, no question. He is one of those rare beings that borders being totally insane/total genius, both of which gave humanity so much.
- bernardo202, on 01/11/2009, -0/+11Tesla FTW! seriously, if it wasn't for corporate america, Tesla's vision would have created a much better world than the one we know.
- p3ngwin, on 01/11/2009, -0/+10i think the fact that Tesla was a foreigner (born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary)), had a lot to do with it too. i don't believe Edison would have conned another American scientist like he did Tesla.
Edison saw that Tesla was not well cultured in American ways and took advantage of him.
if Edison tried that with another American scientist, he would have had lawsuits and a bigger fight.
Edison was a bully because he knew Tesla was better than him, typical insecurity. - mirkas, on 01/11/2009, -0/+8Edison stole and got credit for almost everything Tesla invented. Edison was more a maketing guy than a inventor PERIOD
- statrick, on 01/11/2009, -0/+8In June 1902, Tesla moved his laboratory operations from his Houston Street laboratory to Wardenclyffe. By 1903 the tower structure was near completion, but was not yet functional due to last-minute design changes. Tesla intended for the tower to demonstrate how the ionosphere could be used to provide free electricity to everyone without the need for power lines. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by J. P. Morgan, and additional financiers were reluctant to come forward. Morgan, who could not foresee any financial gain from providing free electricity to everyone, balked at investing further in the scheme and encouraged other investors to avoid the project.[17][citation needed] In May 1905, Tesla's patents on alternating current motors and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and causing a severe reduction of funding to the Wardenclyffe Tower. In an attempt to find alternative funding, Tesla advertised the services of the Wardenclyffe facility, but he met with little success. By this time, Tesla had also designed the Tesla turbine at Wardenclyffe and produced Tesla coils for sale to various businesses.
Soon after Tesla's death, the FBI instructed the government's Alien Property Custodian office to take possession of his papers and property, despite his US citizenship. His safe was also opened. After the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be top secret. The personal effects were seized on the advice of presidential advisers; J. Edgar Hoover declared the case most secret, because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents
pasted from from wiki - statrick, on 01/11/2009, -0/+8Edison took credit for allot for allot of inventions, he was just a shady business man really.
Lewis Howard Latimer played a big part in the creation of the modern lightbulb (he created the filament) , but being a black man he was never giving any credit.
used and abused. American history isn't even close to what they teach us in school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer - alexra, on 01/11/2009, -4/+11tesla invented the light bulb too
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+7This was mentioned in Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power also.
- alexra, on 01/11/2009, -2/+9***** edison, tesla invented the light bulb and the listed above, i really think we concentrate more on edison because his name is more appealing to people, thomas edison, but tesla is the true inventor
- BorsKaegel, on 01/09/2009, -7/+13Ummm... Alternating Current (AC)? Induction motor?
This list is the 'coolest inventions', not the greatest. - inactive, on 01/11/2009, -1/+7OHhhhhhh I didn't know about the 'curvature of the earth' part. that's awesome!! man.
wireless power's making some strides though!! - ColdCut, on 01/11/2009, -2/+7What's more idiotic than thinking Edison created the light bulb? Thinking Tesla invented it. I've seen about five different people state this same fact... where the hell do you people get your information from? Do you read what one idiot says higher up in the comments, believe it then repeat it to make yourself feel smart?
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+5American Buisiness is still the same mind set today though isn't it? Watch your back, you are getting pissed on and pockets picked at the same time.
- greenleave5, on 01/11/2009, -0/+5As cool as lasers are, those videos kind of scare me.
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+4Exactly, Greed overcame a great man. Not his own though, he was kind a generous. Those people that ruined him are now the biggest companies on earth GE being one of them. Never do business with them period, their banking system is a crooks workshop.
- BorsKaegel, on 01/09/2009, -4/+8... oh, the greatest inventions never created.
/hides from bury brigade - s3thin2, on 01/11/2009, -0/+4How is it that Tesla very nearly invented wireless power, almost a CENTURY ago and we still do not have this technology?!?!?!?!
- andreegal, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3Nice, I will watch.
- statrick, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3missile defense system
look familiar?
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/gmd/gall ... - depro9, on 01/11/2009, -1/+4Holes In Heaven, HAARP And Advances In Tesla Technology.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/605992
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1567630 - lornali, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3A mediocre article
- TheKitchenSinkX, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3If I had the cash and he asked me, I would.
- ichbinladen, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3Tesla rocks, Edison wasn't fit to lick his balls. Thieving little bitch.
- crashingechelon, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2What I want that tech for is gaming controllers. Rechargeable batteries just don't make the cut.
- crashingechelon, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2My complaint for the article is they confused Christopher Nolan's Prestige with Christopher Priest's Prestige. In the book when Angier was duplicated it left behind an empty shell of his body. When he'd enter the machine he'd always put his body in different positions and they'd be frozen in time in that way. So it always made a new Angier and killed the previous one. What Borden did is in the middle of the show when he snuck back to see how it worked he thought it was going to blow up the theater so he turned off the machine in the middle of Angier using it. Essentially what I got out of what happened is he wasn't full copied and his body was split into two parts, his body and his soul.
The Prestige is an excellent novel and I recommend it to anyone. - inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2(what are you talking about Gravity?)
- eeemart, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2five fists of science FTW!
- ChloeMS, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Two words... Government and Corporations.
- TheKitchenSinkX, on 01/11/2009, -2/+4This makes me very sad. I would have funded Tesla.
And you know he's not just running his mouth about those yet-to-be-invented inventions, since he's made some real and working stuff that was absolutely amazing back then. I shed a tear. - Rdeck, on 01/11/2009, -1/+3In Alma Alexander's CYBERMAGE, 3rd in the Worldweaver's series, Tesla's soul is hidden in a magic cube, and is freed by the teenage protagonist and her friends.
- StickWST, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2He actually made a different type of death ray as well, that apparently actually functions.
It apparently tuned in to the "resonant frequency" of a material, each material having its own, and after a few minutes the structure would begin to violently shake before collapsing. It is reported that upon testing one of them, the building he was inside began shaking as if an earthquake was occurring, local emergency services arrived soon after lol. I can't find any damn articles on it! I saw it on the History Channel.
I can - Frostek, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2Joseph Swan? Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in north-east England had a road illuminated by light bulbs whilst the Americans were exclaiming they'd just invented it...
- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2No, he just claims he did.
- Lemm, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2tesla cloned Hugh Jackman's character... not Christan Bale's...
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2And the fluro tube as well as Neon lighting.
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