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Nikola Tesla's Life New Documentary Full (Original Post) RKP5637 Jul 2014 OP
Neat! shenmue Jul 2014 #1
He Was Overlooked liberalmike27 Jul 2014 #2
I've always admired him so much. I was thinking of him earlier today ... and posted RKP5637 Jul 2014 #4
"If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly..." NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #9
Exactly the same feelings here, NYC_SKP! RKP5637 Jul 2014 #10
Edison's genius was taking Cyrano Jul 2014 #13
Awesome! Thanks!! Cooley Hurd Jul 2014 #3
Kick for later newfie11 Jul 2014 #5
have to mark this to come back to rurallib Jul 2014 #6
Thanks for posting! secondvariety Jul 2014 #7
That's a great film. CanSocDem Jul 2014 #8
Tesla quotes reveal his deeper genius, his social conscience: NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #11
K&R!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2014 #12
Isn't a movie coming out on Nikola Tesla? SunSeeker Jul 2014 #14
I don't know, it sure would be interesting, such a brilliant genius he was. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2014 #15
Just finished watching it. zeemike Jul 2014 #16
Thanks for posting this! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2014 #20
Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious Jul 2014 #17
re:Nikola Tesla's Life New Documentary Full allan01 Jul 2014 #18
Bookmarking BrotherIvan Jul 2014 #19
Quite an accurate documentary actually. He was an intense and extremely interesting human being. nt Mnemosyne Jul 2014 #21
Yes, he was quite unusual, definitely not even remotely the run of the mill! The RKP5637 Jul 2014 #22
His eyes show his intensity and his genius may be beyond compare. nt Mnemosyne Jul 2014 #23

liberalmike27

(2,479 posts)
2. He Was Overlooked
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:58 AM
Jul 2014

Because he steadfastly refused to become a Capitalist, and failed to make a fortune doing his work. I guess it just goes to show you what being benevolent will get you, and a rot-gut Capitalist world of his time--buggered, screwed, and all your ideas and patents co-opted, and even your history will be taken--until now.

I'm just glad he's gotten some recognition now, for his works. I'm pretty much an avowed Socialist. But Tesla might be a great example why at least "some" ambition toward making money is a good thing. Even if he'd been able to get Westinghouse to pay him back the money he'd owed, he might have done so, so much more.

RKP5637

(67,106 posts)
4. I've always admired him so much. I was thinking of him earlier today ... and posted
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 09:09 AM
Jul 2014

this video when I saw it to help continue his recognition. He was a true genius for the sake of genius. He certainty could have used an honest business manager to guide him through the capitalistic snake pit.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
9. "If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly..."
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 10:19 AM
Jul 2014
“No matter what we attempt to do, no matter to what fields we turn our efforts, we are dependent on power. We have to evolve means of obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations.”


Tesla had it going on, swindled by Edison, for whom he worked, he never gave up and he won in the end in the war with Edison between AC and DC as the standard.

Edison, in contrast, was happy to electrocute animals and even people in an effort to win that war.

Tesla is my personal hero, yet to this day our culture worships Edison.

K/R

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
13. Edison's genius was taking
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 10:43 AM
Jul 2014

out patents on everything. Included things invented by Tesla and others.

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
8. That's a great film.
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 10:19 AM
Jul 2014


I've always been a fan but this film chronicles the times and circumstances of how ScienceInc. suppressed the concept and hardware of 'free' energy.

We could say we've arrived with the advent and growth of solar energy and wireless technology. But we're still left to wonder whether Reagan's "star wars fantasy" might not have been worth pursuing. Just sayin'....


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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
11. Tesla quotes reveal his deeper genius, his social conscience:
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 10:23 AM
Jul 2014
“Of all the frictional resistance, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called “the greatest evil in the world.” The friction which results from ignorance can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”

More here:

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/07/04/nikola-tesla-quotes-vol1/

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
14. Isn't a movie coming out on Nikola Tesla?
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 11:23 AM
Jul 2014

I seem to recall reading about that, with some famous actor playing Tesla.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
16. Just finished watching it.
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 11:42 AM
Jul 2014

And thanks for posting it...it was well done.

But it mentioned a poem he wrote and I looked it up, because poems can be so revealing of the writher...and it was to me interisting...posted below.

"Fragments of Olympian Gossip"


While listening on my cosmic phone
I caught words from the Olympus blown.
A newcomer was shown around;
That much I could guess, aided by sound.
"There's Archimedes with his lever
Still busy on problems as ever.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast
And news are coming in thick and fast.
The latest tells of a cosmic gun.
To be pelted is very poor fun.
We are wary with so much at stake,
Those beggars are a pest—no mistake."
"Too bad, Sir Isaac, they dimmed your renown
And turned your great science upside down.
Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name,
Puts on your high teaching all the blame.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"I am much too ignorant, my son,
For grasping schemes so finely spun.
My followers are of stronger mind
And I am content to stay behind,
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best,
These masters of mine may do the rest.
Come, Kelvin, I have finished my cup.
When is your friend Tesla coming up."
"Oh, quoth Kelvin, he is always late,
It would be useless to remonstrate."
Then silence—shuffle of soft slippered feet—
I knock and—the bedlam of the street.
Nikola Tesla, Novice

RKP5637

(67,106 posts)
22. Yes, he was quite unusual, definitely not even remotely the run of the mill! The
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 06:01 PM
Jul 2014

intensity of his genius was quite exhilarating.

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