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Comment by Jeffrey Michael Paganini on September 17, 2009 at 10:43pm

Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla


Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), circa 1896.
Born 10 July 1856(1856-07-10)
Smiljan, Austrian Empire
(Military Frontier)
Died 7 January 1943 (aged 86)
New York City, New York, USA

Residence Austrian Empire
Kingdom of Hungary
France
USA
Citizenship Austrian Empire (pre-1891)
American (post-1891)
Ethnicity Serbian
Fields Mechanical and electrical engineering
Institutions Edison Machine Works
Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
Known for Tesla coil
Tesla turbine
Teleforce
Tesla's oscillator
Tesla electric car
Tesla principle
Tesla's Egg of Columbus
Alternating current
Induction motor
Rotating magnetic field
Wireless technology
Particle beam weapon
Death ray
Terrestrial stationary waves
Bifilar coil
Telegeodynamics
Electrogravitics
Influences Ernst Mach
Influenced Gano Dunn
Notable awards Edison Medal (1916)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1893)
John Scott Medal (1934)
Religious stance Serbian Orthodox[1]
Signature

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia, he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen.[2] After his demonstration of wireless communication through radio in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.[3] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture,[4] but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist.[5][6] Tesla never put much focus on his finances. It is said he died impoverished, at the age of 86.[7]

The International System of Units unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960), as well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wirelessly power electronic devices which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale with incandescent light bulbs) as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial power levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.

Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics,[8] and theoretical physics. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio.[9] A few of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.

Comment by Jeffrey Michael Paganini on September 17, 2009 at 1:44pm

Good evening Mr. and Misses America and all ships at sea, yes force the issues, after atleast a 1000 mails a congressman, he is about face, finally heard real words from congressman Wally Herger singing a different tune keep at it.........

Comment by Jeffrey Michael Paganini on August 2, 2009 at 3:41pm

Force the issue, well now watch your push mobile option, I work in a fast and for the good our group, glad to be a member and watch in the future,. tnx

Comment by Ray Osborne on January 19, 2009 at 7:37am

Has anybody actually tested the science of the International Tesla Electric
Company?
Free Electricty

Does creating electrical energy have to be a big deal with a huge overhead?

No doubt there are skeptics abound but that is a good thing as long as there are skeptics of the skeptics.

-RKO

Comment by Richard Barnard on July 31, 2008 at 1:28pm

I show a time line on My Page. The technology for the HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) has been available since 1980. Honda and Toyota didn’t introduce theirs until 1998. Eaton introduced theirs 2006. GM and Ford didn’t introduce theirs until 2007/8. They still aren’t building it right. I'm showing use of natural gas with an HEV. None are using kinetic energy to its full extent. None have added capacitors to help extend battery usage. The HEV can use any combustible – hydrogen, carbon or natural gas.

What I show on My Page are just recommendations. It’s not all about ME. I had to post a history to show the difficulty and yes I'm included. I’ve noticed that some other postings are from people and organizations with money and influence. If things are going to be done we need people like that – ingenious, hard working and an I CAN attitude with fortitude. Keep up the good work.

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Comment by Charles McKinney on July 16, 2008 at 6:17pm

I have been emailing my Representatives (State and National) for 4 days. I have not got one response. The politicians have definitely left the American people behind. How can we flush the toilet in Washington? America needs an energy policy that ends dependence on foreign oil now! What are our leaders thinking?

Comment by Thomas Keown on July 9, 2008 at 5:43pm

For the past three national elections I have been hoping for a leader with enough vision to give a Kennedy-esque challenge to Americans and American Industry to develop technology to replace oil based engines. I am convinced that even though our country has gotten sluggish and complacent that we still have the intellect and ability to completely eliminate our need for fossil fuels..we just need the leadership of this country to bring the challenge. Who doesn't believe that we could achieve this monumental goal by the year 2020 if we, as a nation, were dedicated?

Comment by Rade Radulovic on July 9, 2008 at 9:17am

Nikola Tesla is my idol as well,...
do you know what happened with his Long Island instalation,...that
could be answer to all of our energy problems

Comment by Joe Roberts on July 9, 2008 at 6:23am

My initial thoughts hinge on a grass roots push. I think if we start increasing awareness by linking the site in any blogs, online commuities and/or emails we can spread the word. I would also like to start a discussion about local chapter's that can increase awarenes in the "off-line" community. If anyone is interest in this I started a discussion and you can just respond and stake your local claim. Let's keep the ideas flowing!

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