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Nikola Telsa

Source: Energy Infomation Administration

Submersible Boat 1898, invented by Telsa

Source: NASA

Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July 9,1856, and died January 7, 1943. He was the electrical engineer who invented AC (alternating current) induction motor, which made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. Tesla began his studies in physics and mathematics at Graz Polytechnic, and then took philosophy at the University of Prague. He worked as an electrical engineer in Budapest, Hungary, and subsequently in France and Germany. In 1888 his discovery that a magnetic field could be made to rotate if two coils at right angles are supplied with AC current 90¡ out of phase made possible the invention of the AC induction motor. The major advantage of
this motor being its brushless operation, which many at the time believed impossible.

Tesla moved to the United States in 1884, where he worked for Thomas Edison who quickly became a rival, Edison being an advocate of the inferior DC power transmission system. During this time, Tesla was commissioned with the design of the AC generators installed at Niagara Falls. George Westinghouse purchased the patents to his induction motor, and made it the basis of the Westinghouse power system which still underlies the modern electrical power industry today.

During the 1890s he and his assistant George Scherff worked with x-rays, radio, high frequency high voltage devices. By 1899 he was working with electrical power never heard of before. From his lab in Colorado Springs he would unleash such power that the thunder from it could be heard for miles around. His equipment included a 52 foot Tesla coil.

He also did notable research on high-voltage electricity and wireless communication; at one point creating an earthquake which shook the ground for several miles around his New York laboratory. He also devised a system which anticipated worldwide wireless communications, fax machines, radar, guided missiles and aircraft.

At the beginning of World War II Tesla suggested to the U.S. government that instead of research on the atom bomb they should perfect his electric ray. tesla claimed he could direct tremendous amounts of electricity anywhere on earth into an area thus utterly destroying it. The government rebuked him. Is is rumors that Tesla test fired his electrical ray from his lab on Long Island, New York, U.S.A. in 1908 causing the great explosion in Tangusta, Russia.

In well informed circles, it is occasionally mentioned that Nikola Tesla, even in retirement, built an automobile propelled by gravity stressing energy. At the age of 70, in a period of deep economic depression, Tesla had considerable financial means. While these means were not as ample as originally and contractually promised by Westinghouse, they made possible this extraordinarily interesting episode which is today fully documented. We say this also because, once again. the episode points out the enormous significance of this extraordinary experimental physicist. It took no less than 100 years of today's fast-moving events to fully grasp the importance of the man. There is no explanation for this. One can merely humorously assume that Tesla came from some other world, to be born on Earth. His results in experimental physics, which appeared to be perfectly obvious, still cause indigestion in orthodox theoretical physics circles.

When Telsa died all his papers disappeared from his New York City hotel room.

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