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- aleksandar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31As far as I know, he was Serbo-Croatian. But anyway, he never considered himself as a man with nationality because he was a man of the world with the strong faith for global society. On the other hand, people in his origin county consider him almost as a national hero.
- otatop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25You can only read the first two pages without registering. Booooooo!!!!!
- gmiley, on 11/07/2007, -1/+21Tesla, in my opinion, was one of the greatest technological visionaries to have ever walked the Earth. It's people like him that bring about leaps in our understanding of what we can accomplish.
- msdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I loved him in The Prestige!
- aleksandar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Here are previously dugg articles about Tesla.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Nikola_Tesla_The_Man_Who_Invented_The_Modern_World
http://digg.com/general_sciences/The_missing_secrets_of_Nikola_Tesla
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Tesla_Master_Of_Lightning
If you want to read about Tesla, there are tons of articles out there.
And if you want to see many of his own writings and inventions, you can visit Tesla museum in Belgrade. - Desslok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Edison grew to despise Tesla because he knew the man was more brilliant than he was, and actively worked to dicredit Tesla for many years.
- noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Edison < Tesla
Edison fought Tesla tooth and nail in a reputation war that was worse than what you see on election years today. Edison had a monopoly on power plants, because they were all using DC, and to keep it he publicly humiliated and disgraced Tesla in a fierce PR campaign.
Its kind of like the electric car situation of today. We've had them for decades, but they were generally quashed until recently because oil = $.
edit: yarr beatten while typing - ThePet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I just watched an episode of MythBusters last night on Tesla's "Earthquake machine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_4)#Miniature_Earthquake_Machine
It was pretty crazy when they created a noticeable vibration on a giant bridge with only 6 pounds of force. - nikolatesla20, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Edison was not "greater than Tesla". Sure he invented a lot, and worked very hard. But he had 100's of people doing the work FOR HIM. He didn't really invent all that stuff himself. Tesla was a natural. Edison had to squeeze ideas out of his constipated brain.
- martynda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15That was David Bowie.
- Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Important point: Tesla didn't describe himself as an inventor, but as a discoverer. He could see all his inventions when he closed his eyes.
He literally had access to the Source. - berserc, on 11/07/2007, -2/+14He was Serbian but born in what is now Croatia. A fantastic and brilliant genius. The inventor of radio no matter what the inaccurate schoolbooks say.
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12In an effort to totally discredit Tesla and his alternating current, Edison electrocuted animals like crazy to show how AC was inferior to his direct current because it was so dangerous. YouTube has the video of Edison killing a ***** elephant to prove his point... AC eventually won out, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowA1xUZpmA - inactive, on 11/07/2007, -1/+12tesla is one of my personal heros.
" a man out of time" is an excellent book for anyone interested. - bludo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Yep, he wasn't Romanian. He had Istro-Romanian origins. Anyway, a great man and often not credited enough.
- AnalogTrail, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Nikola Tesla was born in a small village called "Smiljan" in what is today known as Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox priest. His mother, Djuka Tesla (nee Mandic), was the daughter of a Serbian Orthodox priest. Tesla's father was born in a town called Raduc. His ancestors emigrated to Raduc from around Knin in the 1690s, having arrived there from western Serbia.
There is no Romanian whatsoever in Nikola's ancestry as far as it can be traced. He was Serbian born in Croatia. The Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade is now home to most of his work. The Nikola Tesla Monument in Niagara Falls was erected by the Serbian Church in Canada, The Government of Canada, and the city of Niagara Falls. - Zliko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11true inspiration for inventors and discoverers...my true hero...
re nationality...Tesla considered himself a man who doesn't think that nationality should be before humanity. He was from Croatian Serb (Serbs living in Croatia), but he also was an American citizen. He is hero in all ex-Yugoslavian countries. Tho some Serbs and some Croats would like to portrait him as "theirs", he liked and felt he belongs to both countries.
such a shame his lab got destroyed, i got feeling that he could made a wireless transmission of high el. energy possible.
and as each genius, he had some obsessions (aliens, microbe phobia), but people...he presented a wireless controlled boat in 1898!!!! 1898!!!! he truly was a man ahead of his time, too bad he didn't had a proper feel (or maybe thats a good thing) how to sell his inventions.
we miss u Nikola, waiting for your reincarnation to save us from this earth resources depletion that is going on... - KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The thing that amuses me about Edison vs. Tesla is that they show the best of two generations of Electrical Engineers. Edison was a very conservative style electrical engineer who seemed almost like a standard mechanical mind who got into electricity. Tesla, however, was perhaps the first member of a long line of electrical engineers stretching to the computer age who were a hybrid of the engineering and physics schools of thought. To this day, electrical engineers are perhaps the closest of all of the most traditional engineers(there are some like optical engineers who are closer) to the physics department in their notation and way of thinking, although this is changing now with the advent of computerized technology replacing almost everything in electrical devices(eg, DSPs).
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Edison = A handy guy. Tesla = a pure genius.
- Forever-Zero, on 11/07/2007, -0/+9It's really a shame that this man died in poverty. It's also horrible that months after he died, the court reversed their decisions about Marconi's patents.
- TechyLah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla! 2 short points to share:
1. When he started working for Edison he said he could improve the efficiency of Edison's generators by at least 25%.
Edison quoted as saying, "Son, if you can do that there is $50,000 in it for you". Within six months, Tesla's innovations (still used today)
resulted in almost 40% better efficiency. When he confronted Edison, he responded, "That was just a joke, a joke, son"
2. Edison wanted to distribute electricity to America via DC. This would have meant large thick copper wires everywhere. No problem for Edison since he and his investors owned the copper mining and wire industry. Tesla's AC system, which allows for step-up and step-down transformers, and is used today, lets much smaller (low current but high voltage) lines be used. He sold the idea (to Westinghouse, I think) to pay debts and never received much from the tremendous success and superiority of AC power distribution. - GenghisCon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Marconi can go suck a dick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@joab not murdered but you know the old threat "youll never work again!" well thats basically what they did
he couldnt get any funding anywhere, they canceled his projects and practically exilled
i think he died with pennies to his name ;( - nowayhoseb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Belgrade"...which is in....SERBIA.
The guy was serbian and you'd get your ass kicked in Belgrade by a 10 year old if they heard you say he is Romaninan
Respek - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Tesla's four-tuned circuits (two on the receiving side and two on the transmitting side, secured by U.S. patents #645,576 and #649,621) were the basis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Case #369 decided June 21, 1943) to overturn Marconi's basic patent on the invention of radio.
Marconi merely demonstrated Tesla's invention, but the gullible media and the greedy industry that followed continue to perpetuate a myth that Marconi invented radio. - dheaddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I liked it when Soviet Tesla troops rigged the Eiffel Tower into a gigantic Tesla Coil. That did happen right?
- fixyourthinking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Those calling him a whacko may end up being called the same - supposedly this Steorn that claims a perpetual motion machine is basing a lot of their work on Tesla
- batasrki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He's a hero of mine. Like all other posters said, the man was way ahead of his time. I had no interest in electricity and how it does what it does until I learned about Nikola Tesla
- Kyon, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5I'm digging this simply because of the title.
- Joab, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Wasn't he murdered by corporate pigs?
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Bah. David Bowie's just his stage name.
- ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Where's my wireless electricity?
Happy b-day Tesla! - Willy99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5these guys named their LAMP servers after the great Tesla.
http://tesla.liketelevision.com
also... a very nice colorized pic of the legendary wizard who brought us AC power.
http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/images/lowrez/tesla_1100.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i heard they both invented radios independantly. but tesla was first, and marconi did know tesla
- mikedaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Smithsonian had a lot to do with squashing the legacy of Tesla as well, being that it was funded in large part by the Edison institute.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Tesla also has a SI unit name after him for magnetism. In science there really isn't any greater recognition.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree. I am glad that he is finally getting recognized for ushering in the 20th century.
What pisses me off is the report that the alternating current generator that he was responsible for inventing was placed at the Thomas Edison exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute!
Please support the movement to honor the forgotten scientist: http://ntesla.org/index.php - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6joab,
who isn't... - jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and he had his own rock band...
- Zoshchenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is anyone else bothered by this website forcing you to register in order to read the story? I guess that's their "right" - but why do they require a mobile phone number? And they discriminate against "free" e-mail addresses in their forum. I pay for the premium hotmail service - it's not "free" at all.
OK, I'm just ranting because I want to read the story but I don't want to register. I already get enough spam. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually he was a clean freak. He invented (read his biography 'Man Out Of Time) a machine which was basically a big damn Vandergraff that was to be his electric shower. When grasping it, it would literally 'blow your dead skin cells off'.
All great men were a bit quirky. *shrug* I still think he was a modern Da Vinci. - ragar01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmm, I wonder if there is a movie out, or in the works about Tesla's life?
- Casis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, Tesla was a great man, a little mystical on the side (he never shaked hands, I think, because of the human "vibration"), but very clever and got awesome visionary ideas. I like him, because he wanted free energy for all, and didn't care about money (at least, not as much as Edison and he died alone in his apartment in NY, without money). There is also a film (biography) about him.
- Sethwm2, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2I have always loved studying him. I like everything that he did. I would love to see his work go to use..
- DocBoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^^
HOLY ***** WIRELESS ELECTRICITY...
...wow, that's so sweet.... wow. - syphron12, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1Red Alert - Possibly the funnest game that got me through my childhood while learning about how to electrocute people ^_^.
- th3wiz4rd, on 11/07/2007, -0/+1Comment buried. Do some research Shaun.
- floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow ...type in "tesla st, Shoreham ny" in msn live search and you can see where the tower was and the wardenclyffe lab
- flaakmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He was in the Movie The Prestige. A really good movie.
- Nudar, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1If Edison had a constipated brain, one can only imagine what kind of crap fills your own.
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