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10-20-2016, 11:53 AM | #1 |
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Tesla did not invent AC, and in fact he wasn't even the first person to work on it. He was one of the individuals that was instrumental in it's development however. Faraday, Pixxii, Westinghouse, and Ferraris are some of the other big names that contributed to its development. |
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PBS had a good documentary on Tesla last night.
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I watched it with my Daughter. I love PBS's American Experience but it wasn't one of their better episodes, I think it was more because Tesla didn't do all that much past the AC Motor, I guess you could argue radio but he had the foundation not a working model of it.
Tesla is ranked justly in our society. He is the type of guy who needed a good manager who functioned in the role of music producer to keep him focused. Super smart guy, just a little more nuts than most people... |
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Sounds like he was hot on the trail of a shit ton of other scientific breakthroughs that weren't made until a half-century later, if not more. But, yeah. Dude sounds batshit ****ing insane. |
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10-21-2016, 08:53 AM | #6 |
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Yes I watched it. What a crazy dude- can you imagine sending "invisible" messages through the air-to any point in the world?
Tried to build the first wireless tower. He was 100 years before his time. Could have been the richest person in history but gave up all his patents to Westinghouse. Who does that? Pretty sad story all the way around. He was a man outta time...man outa time... |
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10-19-2016, 11:06 PM | #7 |
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Anyone interested, I recommend Wizard, a thorough biography of Tesla.
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10-21-2016, 12:57 PM | #8 |
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His animosity with Edison was later in life primarily, but seeded with Edison publicly smearing and attacking AC because Edison had such a large financial stake and ego in DC.
Edison eventually lost even autonomy over his previous work to investors and a board of what would become GE. Tesla had a bit more of an ongoing rivalry with Marconi even as a young man that continued for much of his career. Westinghouse, bought much of Tesla's portfolio on the cheap- about the equivalent of a million dollars in today's money. While it was a ripoff compared to its actual worth, Westinghouse recognized and didn't interfere with letting Tesla invent or conduct his experimentation as he saw fit. Tesla very much saw his work as an altruistic calling that was for the advancement and betterment of mankind. Not a shrewd businessman, and thought very little about money outside of needing funding to continue doing his work.
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