"A child of the storm" Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight while a lightning

[HysteryDiagnosis]

storm cast bolts down. The destruction of his laboratory after his death was one of the greatest crimes against science and humankind. Supported in his goals he might have brought green energy to the entire earth minus the wires and politics.

ON EDIT TO ADD LINK TO WIKI and QUOTE: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

* The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste. By its means, he will obtain at any place and in any desired amount, the energy of remote waterfalls — to drive his machinery, to construct his canals, tunnels and highways, to manufacture the materials of his want, his clothing and food, to heat and light his home — year in, year out, ever and ever, by day and by night. It will make the living glorious sun his obedient, toiling slave. It will bring peace and harmony on earth.

* It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! . . . Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discover's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.




One of his quotes that truly shows his spirit and intent.

What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.

[hlthe2b]

1. Always pleased to see kudos given to Tesla...

He never got his due, but we are the richer for his accomplishments and the poorer for not having recognized and supported him more fully.

I enjoyed the quotes, though wish the one by George W. Bush* had been left out. Clearly he would not have even known who Tesla was, had someone not taken the effort to try to "edumacate" him prior to the official anniversary commemoration.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Quotes are gone in order to add Tesla's own words regarding wireless trasmission

of power.

[MineralMan]

2. Actually, Tesla's discoveries have far more reach

than many people think. It's not that he was ignored, but that how many of his discoveries are actually in use today that is the flaw of many people's understanding.

Much of how we use electrical energy is based on Tesla, not Edison. Tesla won that battle, in reality, if not in recognition.

[notesdev]

3. Tesla = single coolest human being ever to exist

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. David Bowie did a mean Tesla in The Prestige if you haven't seen it, you should.

[hlthe2b]

6. Yes.. he did... I was just trying to think of the name of that film

Worth a rental, folks...

[uppityperson]

10. I love that movie. If people haven't seen it, I highly recommend it, don't rec movies often

but this one is very good and odd and I wanted to see it again when it was finished.

[FourScore]

7. Edison did tremendous damage to Tesla and his accomplishments.

I hate the fact that we have made Edison into some American hero when he was such a patent-stealing, competition-crushing, money-hungry egomaniac.

[MineralMan]

9. Yeah, but alternating current won, so Tesla won.

Edison lost the war, even though he won a few battles. Our entire electronics and energy industries are from Tesla, not Edison. Tesla was the winner, in the end.

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. A man so clever...

....he figured out a way around the inverse square law.

[mountainlion55]

11. Cool post ! ! !

:thumbsup:

[Gabi Hayes]

12. tesla/da vinci....da vinci/tesla?

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

tesla is the real inventor of radio, not marconi

he got screwed more times than any other genius in history