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The life story and work of Nikola Tesla. He invented AC electricity, Neon Lights, Radio transmission, The Electric motor, Wireless electricity transfer, Remote control, Hydraulics, Lasers, Space weapons, Robotics, and many, many more things.

Some Electromechanical devices and principles developed by Tesla:

* various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (1882)
* induction motor and high frequency alternator
* means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations
* alternating current long-distance electrical transmission system (1888)
* Tesla coil
* bladeless turbine
* bifilar coil
* Telegeodynamics
* systems for wireless communication (prior art for the invention of radio) and radio frequency oscillators
* robotics and the "AND" logic gate
* X-rays Tubes using the bremsstrahlung process
* devices for ionized gases
* devices for high field emission
* devices for charged particle beams
* methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electrical current
* voltage multiplication circuitry
* devices for high voltage discharges
* devices for lightning protection
* Magnifying Transmitter
* VTOL aircraft
* Dynamic theory of gravity
* concepts for electric vehicles

Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla (Nicolae Teslea, n. 10 iulie 1856, satul Smiljan, în apropiere de Gospić, Croaţia, pe atunci Graniţa Militară Croată - d. 7 ianuarie 1943, New York) a fost un inventator, fizician, inginer mecanic şi inginer electrician american de origine istroromână[1]. Tesla este considerat ca fiind unul dintre cei mai mari oameni de ştiinţă ai sfârşitului de secol 19 şi începutului de secol 20. Invenţiile, precum şi munca teoretică ale lui Tesla au pus bazele cunoştinţelor moderne despre curentul alternativ, puterea electrică, sistemele de curent alternativ, incluzând sistemele polifazate, sistemele de distribuţie a puterii şi motorul pe curent alternativ, care au determinat cea de-a doua Revoluţie Industrială.
Una dintre cele mai importante invenţii ale sale este generatorul de curent alternativ, contribuind de asemenea la construirea hidrocenteralei de lângă Cascada Niagara.

În Statele Unite ale Americii, faima lui Tesla rivalizează în istorie şi cultură populară cu cea a altui mare inventator Thomas Edison. După demonstraţia sa de transmisie de semnale fără fir în anul 1893 şi după ce a câştigat în "Războiul Curenţilor", dovedind avantajele transmisiei la distanţă a curentului alternativ, în comparaţie cu curentul continuu, al cărui adept era Edison, el a fost recunoscut ca cel mai mare inginer electrician al Americii. O mare parte din munca sa de început a pus bazele ingineriei electrice moderne, iar descoperirile sale ştiinţifice sunt de o importanţă colosală. Cum niciodată nu s-a priceput la administrarea veniturilor proprii, Tesla a murit sărac şi uitat la vârsta de 86 de ani. În ultimii ani de viată, Tesla era privit ca un om de ştiinţă nebun remarcându-se prin declaraţii bizare despre posibile dezvoltări ştiinţifice.

Amprenta lui Tesla poate fi observată în civilizaţia modernă oriunde este folosită electricitatea. Pe lângă descoperirile sale despre electromagnetism şi inginerie, Tesla este considerat un pionier în domeniile roboticii, balisticii, ştiinţa calculatoarelor, fizicii nucleare şi fizicii teoretice. Tesla considera cercetarea diferitelor întrebări ridicate de către ştiinţă drept cea mai nobilă metodă de îmbunătăţire a condiţiei umane cu ajutorul principiilor ştiinţei şi progresului industrial şi una care să fie compatibilă cu natura. Totuşi, o parte din munca sa a fost ultilizată într-un mod mai puţin ortodox şi într-un mod controversat, pentru a susţine pseudo teorii ştinţifice, teorii despre OZN-uri şi ocultism-ul New Age.

Insusirea este numita perseverenta cand este folosita pentru o cauza buna si incapatanare daca e pusa in slujba unei cauze rele. (Lawrence Sterne)

THE TESLA INTERVIEW





Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. MetaScience Publications, Box 32,Kingston, RI 02881

July 10, 2011



It was a warm winter morning in the new millennium. The seeker hailed a cab for the New York Public Library, strolled over to Bryant Park and waited as he was told. It was not too long before he noticed a tall, exceedingly thin gentleman feeding pigeons at a nearby bench. The man wore a long black coat, colorful scarf, and a derby hat with ear flaps. With a gleam in his eye, he looked over. "Seeker?" he asked, and the initiate nodded. "Come," the wizard motioned. There could be no doubt, it was Tesla. Considering the hobble to his gait and his advanced age, there still was a perceptible bounce to his stride. Nodding to an elderly couple who seemed to know him, the wizard grabbed two segues, exited the park and led his visitor down 5th Avenue to the Hotel St. Regis. Motoring up a ramp, they parked their vehicles and entered the foyer, taking their seats beneath a painting of John Jacob Astor where Part I of this interview took place.



PART 1



Seeker: From the Tesla archives we have obtained an interview with you from The New York Times July 11, 1933 where it states, and I quote, "Inventor says his health and mind are better than ever -- expects to live beyond 140." You were born in Croatia in 1856 and were 77 at the time. How does it feel to have been on this planet for so long?



Tesla: I never think of my age. Really, you know, even now, I'm still a youngster. Knowing that I have descended from a people who came from the mountains of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia who lived to 110 or 120 -- we even had one relative who made it to 140, -- I began from the start with the plan to outlive each of them. I feel mentally stronger and more fit than ever.



Seeker: How do you do it?



Tesla: First of all, it is not as uncommon as you think. Humans are a simply machines who must follow natural law. An individual who is an offender of the law is a machine that has been degraded so that its responses are no longer accurate and death ensues at an earlier age. The recent story about that French lady who the media said was the oldest living person who died at the age of 120 was poppycock. There are many people today living in mountain villages in Europe and South America who are easily 140. I believe that aging is caused by bacteria on the skin. These can be eradicated by taking electrical baths, which I do daily.



Seeker: An electric bath?



Tesla: I step aboard a special platform which can transmits millions of volts through my body. This is at a very low power, but very high frequency, as much as 80 million oscillations a second. The electricity, for the most part, travels around the surface throwing off unwanted molecules with extreme vigor. I believe that electrotherapy can also be used to cure numerous ills, particularly cancer. The idea would be to find a resonant frequency for the corresponding virus or tumor and rattle it with such a high intensity that its molecular structure would be shattered asunder.



Seeker: All one needs is an electrical bath, and that's it, you live to 140?



Tesla: That's a key component. For my ancestors and those others who have survived well past 100 who are not bombarded by the disease one finds in the urban environment, there are other factors which include exercise, I walk ten miles a day, pure thoughts, abstinence, hard work, an occasional glass of wine, and a strict diet of a product I call factor actus.



Seeker: Which is?



Tesla: It's a simple health potion equivalent to the protein value of a dozen eggs, made from twelve vegetables including white leeks, cabbage hearts, flower of cauliflower, white turnips and lettuce hearts. The product can be eaten warm in a soup or as a powdered substance added to purified water. I also recommend fish, stewed prunes marinated in honey and fresh oranges.



Seeker: What about sleep?



Tesla: Oh, I don't sleep. Sleep is a racial habit growing out of the fact that humans spend half their life in darkness due to the rotation of the earth. Sometimes I doze for an hour or so, and once in a long while, perhaps once in a year, I have a long sleep of five, six or seven hours. When I awake from that I am so full of energy that I have to work it off!



Seeker: What about naps.



Tesla: That was Tom Edison's trick. He used to stay awake around the clock until he nodded out, and then he would sleep on a problem. Tom used to hold two rocks in his hands and sleep over a bucket. And if he got the answer he was looking for in his sleep, he would drop the rocks, and the racket would wake him up. I admit I also doze during the day when I get tired, but that is mainly to recharge my batteries. Unlike Edison, I do my work while I'm conscious.



Seeker: You are credited with a long list of inventions. We've even heard you developed waterwheels at age five. Can you give us an easy summary of the inventions you lay claim to?



Tesla: I didn't invent anything. I discovered and created. Below is a modest list of some of my achievements:



1. Rotating magnetic field.

2. Induction motor.

3. AC power transmission, transformers, alter-

nators, turbines.

4. Commutators, and regulators for dynamo

machines.

5. Electric meter.

6. Electric arc lamp

7. Fluorescent and neon lights.

8. Radio tubes and precursor to TV tube.

9. Refrigeration devices.

10. Ozone producing machines.

11. Electrical igniter for gas engines.

12. Lasers

13. Dematerialization devices.

14. Particle beam weapons.

15. Wireless transmission.

16. Cellular telephone, scramblers, encryption

devices.

17. Remote control.

18. Radar, stealth technology.

19. Lightning protectors.

20. Artificial intelligence and automatons.

21. Oscillators and Tesla coil.

22. Steam turbines.

23. Bladeless pumps.

24. Water fountain.

25. Hovercraft.

26. Reactive jet dirigibles, flying wing designs.

27. Helicopter-airplanes.

28. Magnifying transmitter.

29. Fueless planes and automobiles.

30. Weather control devices.

24. Method for obtaining fertilizer from nitrogen

in the air.

31. Electro-therapeutics.

32. Electric bath.

33.Teleogeodynamics & earthquake machines.

34. Speedometers and tachometers.

35. Cosmic ray generators for power tranmis-

sion between planets.



Seeker: That's quite a list. How do you think it compares with Edison.



Tesla: Edison invented. I discovered.



Seeker: If you had it to do all over again, would you forgo working with Edison?



Tesla: Of course not. Edison had the most advanced electrical operations at that time. It was an invaluable experience.



Seeker: What was it like to meet him?



Tesla: My first encounter was a memorable event. He was at that time, the most famous man in the world, known then as the Napoleon of Invention. I was amazed at this wonderful man who without early advantage or scientific training had accomplished so much. But after working with him, round the clock, day in and day out, I became frustrated. If Edison needed to find a needle in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where the needle might be, but rather, would examine every straw, straw after straw like a diligent bee until he found the object of his search. It was almost sad to watch him at these times, when with a little theory and mathematical calculation, he would have saved 90% of his labor.



Seeker: Why did you leave his employ?



Tesla: Let's just say we had a misunder-standing. Edison was simply incapable of comprehending my alternating current electrical system. At the time, he had over 1,000 small direct current power stations dotted around the country. I tried to show him that by using AC, all of those stations could be scrapped, and electricity could be sent from one central source. He would hear none of it. The invention was too new. I had no publications on it. So I pulled back and suggested I redesign his DC system instead. I knew I could increase its efficiency at least 15%. The manager said "There's $50,000 in it if you succeed." And when I did, and tried to collect, Edison laughed and said it was a joke, that I didn't understand American humor. That was the last time we worked together. And pretty soon after that, my AC system became the standard, and Edison's DC system went the way of the passenger pigeon.



Seeker: Is it true that he electrocuted cats and dogs in order to win the battle of the currents?



Tesla: Most definitely, and a cow and even a rogue elephant! The problem at the time was how to harness a current that changed its direction of flow at many times per second into a unidirectional flow. No one could do it before me, so the electricians of the day simply eliminated the up flow and only used the downflow current. This became known as direct current. The advantage of direct current was that electricity could now be harnessed to light bulbs and run electrical equipment, but at a great price of efficiency. What I did was figure out how to eliminate the commutator which caused the current to go direct, and use alternating current in its natural state.



Seeker: What was the difference in outcome?



Tesla: With Edison's system, and a similar system that the Westinghouse company was using, one would need a power station for every mile of lighting. So, for instance, if one wanted to light the city of New York, one would need a dozen or more electrical plants for every square mile of homes, and even then, the power dropped off with distance. Thus, if a home was near the plant, it's lightbulbs shone brightly, but if you lived, say three quarters of a mile away, your bulbs were dim. And, what's more, this systems could only be used for lighting, not for running machinery.



Seeker: Then how did they power factories in those days?



Tesla: By being close to a power source which usually was a river. In the early 1890's during the height of the battle of the currents, the great industries of the day were all planning on moving to the banks of the Niagara, because that is where the power was. Edison was upset that we had a competing system, as I had already sold the system to Westinghouse, so he got a man on death row sentenced to die by alternating current. It was Edison's hope that the public would be so afraid of my AC system that they would keep his DC instead.



Seeker: What happened?



Tesla: Well, the first thing I did was figure out how to send AC through breathing organisms without gaining injury. I toured the world explaining my system and at the same time sent hundreds of thousands of volts through my own body without harming myself. By increasing the frequency and dropping the power to a whisper, it became child's play. Nevertheless, the current was still strong enough to illuminate wireless cold lamps which I held in my hand. That was another reason why Edison was so upset with me.



Seeker: Because the lamps were cold?



Tesla: Yes. I had removed his precious filament. You see the common electric light wastes 95% of its energy in heat. Try touching an Edison bulb when it is on, and you will see what I mean. I realized that the vacuum in the bulb was more important than the filament. It's one of my most important discoveries, namely, that when electro-magnetism reaches a certain high frequency it creates light. Now almost all major buildings are lit by my fluorescent lights. They use less power, are cold to the touch, and the bulbs almost never have to be changed.



Seeker: People have said that the war of the currents is similar today to the war between Microsoft and Apple Computer. Would you agree?



Tesla: There are similarities, but I think it would be best to first point out the advantage of my AC system over Edison's DC. As stated above, with the Edison system, electricity could only be transmitted about a mile, and then only for lighting homes. The upshot was, that if Edison had won the battle of the currents, the entire country would have been dotted at every mile with direct current generators harnessed mostly by coal. One can imagine the amount of air pollution that was being created in the late 1880's and early 1890's when there was already nearly 3000 smoking plants -- and that was just the start. With my AC system, however, one needed only one clean energy producing station at Niagara Falls, and with that, the entire northeast could be illuminated. By the turn of the century, harnessing my system through the Westinghouse Corporation, we transmitted electrical power from Niagara to Chicago, Toronto, Boston and New York. Now factories could stay in their respective states. They did not have to all line up along rivers or way up at Niagara Falls. It also meant that housewives for the first time, could run electrical appliances in their homes. They couldn't do that with Edison's DC system.

Now, if you look at the history of the home computer, you see that there were three major competing systems in the mid 1980's, the Apple II disk operating system, Microsoft DOS which became the standard for IBM, and the new Apple system called the Macintosh. Mr. Jobs liked the Macintosh because it was set up specifically for graphics capabilities, and so he sought to dissolve the other profitable Apple II system. His company resisted this idea and fired Jobs instead, even though he was the largest shareholder. Since IBM was the dominant force in the computer field, whatever DOS they settled on was destined to become the standard. Bill Gates knowingly settled on a slap-dash DOS which was sloppily assembled for word processing and for crunching numbers, but it was not set up for graphics. In the long run, it became clear that the Macintosh had the best system, but Gates had the market. In an interview in a men's magazine....



Seeker: Playboy (July 1994)?



Tesla: Perhaps, I only had the article, Gates said, and I quote, "Actually, [our DOS] would have been obsolete some time ago if we hadn't come along with Windows and sort of built it on top of DOS to renew its capabilities.... [And] believe me, it would have been a lot easier to write Windows so it didn't run DOS applications." What Gates was really saying, of course, was that he should have scrapped the Microsoft DOS because it was inferior, and adopted the Macintosh DOS instead, but it risked great market share, so he took the expedient route at the cost of ultimate efficiency.

Here we see some key similarities and the differences. If Edison had won in our battle, the air would be polluted, factories would have to move near water falls, or install great smoking generators and homes would not have electrical appliances. My system was so far superior that its advantages soon became blatantly obvious to the financiers, even though a number of the Westinghouse people did not want to scrap their inferior power distribution system and take mine on.



Seeker: Then why did you give up your royalty clause?



Tesla: Because Westinghouse, like Edison, had over 1000 of his own small power plants providing electricity for lighting to a few hundred homes a piece, and these plants were making money. My system threatened this profitable scheme, so I had conflicts with some of their engineers. I told Westinghouse that money was not the issue. They had to change over to my system, and to make my point, I ripped up the royalty clause. In the long run it hurt me financially, but I wouldn't feel the effects for nearly a decade, as I was still receiving compensation on the invention, and revenues from other patents I had.

And, so my AC polyphase system was put in at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and at Niagara Falls in 1897, and the system is still used essentially unchange today. Gates' system is clearly inferior, just ask any computer animator or graphics designer, but it is not so obvious as to why it is inferior, so he was able to prevail in the short run. His chip maker, Intel, is also figuring out how to make faster and faster chips. However, their foundation is wrong. The Macintosh starts with a more elegant premise, so it is my belief that in the long run, all computers will be run on Macintosh based disk operating systems. Obviously Gates knows he had an inferior disk operating system, but his pride was involved and he was too afraid to scrap the system to take on the better foundation. It is sad, although from a business point of view, he's still way ahead.

Seeker: According to your speech at Niagara, the system of AC electrical transmission that we use today, your system, was also obsolete.



Tesla: Not the whole system, but the means for transmitting electrical power over long distances was obsolete. Look what happened with that ice storm a few winters back in the northeast in Maine and Canada. The power lines broke and tens of thousands of people were without power for weeks in the dead of winter. My idea was to do away with long-distance power lines entirely.



Seeker: Is that really possible?



Tesla: Of course. I had built my first wireless power transmission station in Colorado Springs in 1899 to study the principle, and then I moved back to New York and erected my second station out on Long Island.



Seeker: Wardenclyffe.



Tesla: Yes. The idea was to erect a large transmission tower which could do a variety of things. For instance, if a similar tower were placed in England, which was my plan, than energy could be jumped from the Long Island plant over the Atlantic to the receiving tower in England. From there the electricity could be transmitted either by means of wireless to the local dwellings or by conventional means, that is, but using wires. Mostly, the idea would be to locate receiving plants at distant places that were not near sources of power.



Seeker: But Wardenclyffe was not near a water fall.



Tesla: True enough. But this was really an experimental station. My full plan involved the erection of a source plant at Niagara, and I had designs with both the American and Canadian power companies to put this in but other complications prevented me.



Seeker: You claimed in 1900 that you had a wireless telephone?



Tesla: That was nothing new. I also had facsimile machines. All of the principles to what today is called the cellular phone is in my patents. I told Morgan at the time....



Seeker: J. P. Morgan?



Tesla: J.P. Morgan was the son. This was J. Pierpont Morgan, the father, that I could create an unlimited number of separate wireless channels, but he didn't believe me.



Seeker: Was that because Marconi sent his message across the Atlantic before you got the chance?



Tesla: That was part of it. I told Mr. Morgan that the microbe was using outmoded equipment based in large measure on the work of Heireich Hertz, even if he did pirate my oscillators, and that he was merely trying to send Morse code, dots and dashes across the seas, where I was going to transmit voice, light, pictures and power. I had already calculated that Hertz' system was not conducive. That is why I invented a continu-ous wave oscillator because that was the only way to go. Today, no-one uses Hertzian frequencies to transmit radio, wireless television and cellular conversations, they all use Tesla waves.



Seeker: How did you create an unlimited number of separate wireless channels?



Tesla: By using what John Hays Hammond Jr. called my prophetic genius patent. This was achieved by combining frequencies. Let me give you an example. Say you have an oscillator which produces ten frequencies. You then have ten channels. Do you see?



Seeker: Yes.



Tesla: Then how do you create more channels?



Seeker: Hey, who's asking the questions! I don't know. How?



Tesla: By inventing a receiver that is receptive to a combination of frequencies. If the receiver works when it is activated by two separate frequencies, then you have 10 times 10 or 100 channels. If it is three frequencies, there are 1000 possible channels, and so on. In reality, we are already starting off with thousands of channels, so when you multiply the frequencies, you see that there are a virtually unlimited number of possible stations. That is how every person on the planet can have their own cellular phone, and that is my invention.



Seeker: How do we know that is true?



Tesla: First of all, it is in my patents, but also, I displayed this principle in my remote controlled boat which I showed at Madison Square Garden in 1898.



Seeker: So, you invented remote control as well?



Tesla: And selective tuning and telautomatics. The whole idea of thinking machines can be traced back to my boat whose patents I displayed in the electrical journals at that time. Now we see this applications in dozens of ways, such as in beepers, garage door openers, remote controlled toy cars, airplanes and boats, the television remote, and so on, all based on that patent. One can also see that telephone scramblers and computer encryption devices, cable and satellite station blockers are also based on this simple principle of using multiple frequencies.



Seeker: And you say humans are simply biological automatons too?



Tesla: Essentially, yes. Man, however, is not an ordinary mass consisting of spinning atoms and molecules and containing merely heat-energy. He is a mass possessed of certain higher qualities by reason of the creative principle of life which he is endowed. His mass, as the water in an ocean wave, is being continuously exchanged, new taking the place of the old.



Seeker: Would you say this concept is analogous to the modern day idea of artificial intelligence.



Tesla: I do not believe that intelligence is artificial, but rather a property of matter. I have, by every thought and every act of mine, demonstrated and do so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that like these machines, I am nothing more than an automaton endowed with a power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli beating upon my sense organs, and thinks and acts accordingly. I remember only one or two cases in all my life which I was unable to locate the first impression which prompted a movement, or a thought, or even a dream.



Seeker: Wasn't one of those two instances the intuitive flash you received which gave you the insight to realize that a solution to the AC problem was possible.



Tesla: Yes.



Seeker: And you mention dreams. You do not believe in Carl Jung's idea that dreams can be prompted from something inside like genetic memories, which he called archetypes. You say that dreams only come from something external.



Tesla: I don't want to get too far afield. But even if Jung's idea was correct, it would still prove my point that information ultimately was derived from a reaction to something from the environment, even if it was in the environment of our ancestors.



Seeker: Implanted into the DNA?



Tesla: DNA is merely a special arrangement of particular atoms. Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Take a crystal, for instance. Certainly its growth and structure gives evidence of this animating principle. DNA, much like the crystal, is made up of matter, just five elements arranged in a peculiar fashion: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and phosphorous. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside. There is no gap between, no break in continuity, no special and distinguishing vital agent. The momentous question of Spencer, What is it that causes inorganic matter to run into organic forms? has been answered. It is the sun's heat and light. Wherever they are there is life.

It was from this premise, that the life principle, which, ultimately, is electrical in nature, is present not just in the plants and animals that inhabit the earth, but also in the structure of matter itself, which enabled me to create the first of a new race on the planet, a race of non-biological life-forms.



Seeker: So, this was the basis for the robot you invented?



Tesla: I prefer the term automaton, or telautomaton, because it was activated by remote control. Long ago I conceived the idea of constructing such a machine which would mechanically represent me, and which would respond, as I do myself, but of course, in a much more primitive manner to external influences. Such an automaton evidently had to have motive power, organs for locomotion, directive organs and one or more sensitive organs so adapted as to be excited by external stimuli. Whether the automaton be of flesh and bone, or of wood and steel, it mattered little, provided it could provide all the duties required of it like an intelligent being.

The automaton that I created and displayed before the public at Madison Square Garden in 1898, was constructed so as to follow a course which I laid out, and obey commands given far in advance. This mechanical being was capable of distinguishing between what it ought and what it ought not to do, and of recording impressions which would definitely affect its subsequent actions. This original automaton had to use a borrowed brain, my own, but my ultimate plan was to continue evolving the entity so that it would be able to reproduce itself. This machine has evolved into various kinds of computer entities and automatons existing in the real world and displayed in movies.



Seeker: What do you think of these modern thinking machines such as Big Blue which recently beat Kasparov in a chess match.



Tesla: I am impressed but only so far as its applications to more important problems. Big Blue has the advantage of storing tens of thousands of games and hundreds of thousands of chess moves that are reversed in the machine for inevitable conclusions. The real question was if Big Blue had reflective capabilities, and I don't believe that Big Blue achieved this level of thought. The big difference between these thinking machines, and, to use your term, the robots is in motivation. Humans are motivated to live and to improve themselves. Machines have no motivation. This is what must be instilled in order to train the machine to want to think for itself. That is why I laid out the plan to inspire my future automatons to want to reproduce.



Seeker: What would you use to motivate a machine?



Tesla: I don't know. Maybe an extra zap of juice! (laughs) if it came up with a new thought. The idea of creating computers that would program themselves, however, is not new. There are many articles on this concept.



Seeker: You mention in your writings the possibility of weather control and the creation of artificial lighting.



Tesla: Yes. Wardenclyffe was set up to do a variety of things. I had realized long ago that cloud bursts and rain showers were often triggered by lightning. This whole El Nino thing could have been averted if my system of weather control had been in place.



Seeker: Really?



Tesla: Of course. I knew that if I could change the electrical matrix in the skies I could generate clouds and create rain or do the reverse and diminish a weather storm's capacity. I was also planning on lighting up shipping lanes over the high seas so that ships would be able to see at night.



Seeker: I'm not quite sure what you mean?



Tesla: Aren't you listening man? I would use my giant Tesla coil, which I called my magnifying transmitter, to beam up frequencies, say, between New York and England, over the seas, and these vibrations, much like the Northern Lights, would create luminescence so that ships could see where they were going at night. Had I finished my plans, that is, if I had not run out of money, then my good friend Colonel John Jacob Astor, and his friend Benjamin Guggenheim would not have died during that awful mess when the Titanic sank. The captain would have seen the iceberg, the event happened at night, and 1500 lives would have been saved.



Seeker: So, is it your belief that had Wardenclyffe been completed, the Titanic would not have sank.



Tesla: The lighting of the shipping lanes was the back-up plan. My main invention would have been an efficient world telegraphy system. Had that been in operation in 1912, and it should have been, the Titanic would have been able to radio a half dozen nearby ships who could have come and rescued the remaining passengers. The problem was that the dolt Marconi, had placed his inferior dot and dash system on board the Titanic. The range and capabilities of that system was woefully inadequate. My system of what today is called mass communications, was more efficient then in its final form than the wireless system of even today. The Titanic would have had instant access to all neighboring ships and these people would have been rescued.



Seeker: Have you seen the recent movie Titanic?



Tesla: Yes, I have.



Seeker: And what did you think of it?



Tesla: I liked the one with Clifton Webb better.



Seeker: Why was that?



Tesla: Because the story line of this one was too narrow. I thought the love story was inspirational, I'll give the director, Mr. Cameron, that, and I tip my hat off on the special effects on the sinking of the ship, and the pointing out the idiocy of letting the ship go to sea without enough life boats, but his depiction of Mr. Guggenheim and Colonel Astor was simply dredful. An insult to the intelligence of anyone who knew these find gentleman. There were mere cardboard cutouts and cowards in Cameron's picture. The real men were men of substance, who gave their lives so that women and children could be saved in their stead. Don't you think a man of Astor's stature, who at that time was worth probably four or five times what Bill Gates is worth today, could have had the means to get himself onto one of the lifeboats? He was a gentleman as was Guggenheim. Astor had donated his ship thirteen years before that during the Spanish American War and he went down to Cuba to help Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughriders. He was helping me fund my flying machine when he died.



Seeker: You had a flying machine?



Tesla: Several. I had designed a hovercraft for Astor to travel over the Hudson, much like the hydrofoil of today. It worked like a charm. I had a dirigible jet, you know, a Zeppelin, lighter than air ship that was propelled by a jet engine. And later, I had my famous flivver plane, which was a small aircraft that took off vertically, like a helicopter and then the propeller was rotated into the airplane position to fly like a conventional craft.



Seeker: Much like today's military plane the Osprey tilt-roter?



Tesla: Precisely. But the cost would not have been 40 million dollars a piece as the Osprey is. My plan was to construct small flivver planes that could fly five or six people. They were being priced right before the crash of '29, at about $1000 a piece. I was negotiating with Henry Ford. But then the Depression came. This vehicle was going to compete with the automobile. Each home would need a small helipad, or there could be helipad centers every few blocks. I'm not sure that the flivver plane would have worked in densely populated areas, such as New York City, but in the suburbs they would have been fine, particulary for trips between cities and states.



Seeker: In 1970, there was a book written by Arthur Matthews about you entitled Wall of Light: Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Spaceship, which stated that you were still alive at that time living on a space ship that came from Venus.



Tesla: I can neither confirm nor deny that book. However, I will say that Venus is much too hot to live on.



Seeker: You had some fundamental issues with Einstein's theories when they first came into the scientific noosphere. Today, however, they are widely accepted. Do you feel you owe the quantum physics community an apology.



Tesla: You neglected to mention that Einstein, himself, never accepted the premise of indetermancy that lies at the basis of quantum physics, and we have yet to hear him apologize. Einstein was a pad and pencil scientist who deduced mathematical equations instead of constructing physical devices which would have proved or disproved his lofty cerebrations. There is, however, one area where we are in agreement and that is the notion that "God doesn't play dice," the idea that the world operates like a great machine, where everything is interconnected.



Seeker: Surely you see now that you were in error about atomic energy.



Tesla: You know what they say about hindsight. In retrospect I realize that we had been talking about different parts of the atom. You see, I had split atoms hundreds of times through extremely high voltages, but never released the kind of energy Einstein talked about. The problem was that he was discussing the splitting of the nucleus of the atom, and I was discussing the disintegration of its larger structure which involved the breaking down of the electron orbits, and the changing of one element into another, not the demolition of the inner workings of the components of the nucleus. Either he did not make that point clear in the 1930's when I voiced my disapproval, or somehow I missed it.



Seeker: You split atoms?



Tesla: Many times. It only takes about one million volts to vaporize carbon and about four million volts to change it into helium, but this process does not involve the destruction of the nucleus.



Seeker: You also say lightspeed can be transcended?



Tesla: So do the physicists, and I'm not talking about tachyons although that idea bears some merit. I'm talking about the problem of trying to apply relativity to the structure of the atom. Read Gamow's book Thirty Years that Shook Physics. He tells us that the orthorotational speed of the electron is 1.37 times the speed of light. That violated relativity so the quantum phycists did some fancy mathematical footwork and somehow skipped this real problem entirely. But it remains one of the key reasons we don't have, as yet, a unified field theory. They can't completely combine quantum physics with relativity. My magnifying transmitter, is another instance of violatiing relativity. In this device, I created electrical waves that travelled one and a half times the speed of light.



Seeker: That is on a whole different order, and as I understand classical physics, this just can't be possible.



Tesla: Let me ask you a question. How big around is the earth?



Seeker: 25,000 miles?



Tesla: Right. Now, light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Let's round that off to 200,000 miles per second to make the mathematics more easily understood.



Seeker: OK.



Tesla: So, that means that it takes light approximately 1/8 of a second to travel around the earth. Do you agree?



Seeker: Yes.



Tesla: Now, let me ask you another question. How long do you think it takes the electrical field of the North pole to interact with the electrical field of the South pole?



Seeker: What do you mean?



Tesla: Will you agree that it has to be a lot faster than 1/8 of a second?



Seeker: I can't tell.



Tesla: You're missing the point. The earth is a single entity. So obviously it is instantane-ously connected to itself. The field of the North pole is connected the field of the South pole instantaneously. And if that is true, that violates relativity. Let's take it one step further. Jupiter's diameter is about 10 times that of the earth, or, in round numbers approximately 250,000 miles around. Thus, it would take light well over a second to travel around Jupiter. There simply must be forces involved that exceed the speed of light as one end of Jupiter is obviously connected to its other end. Now, if we apply this same concept to the solar system as a single unit or to the galaxy as a whole, which is many millions of light years long, we see how absolutely silly it is to think that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. The angular momentum of the galaxy, caused by its spin, can be measured. Owing to the immense charge of the sun, it alone produces cosmic rays that travel 50 times that of the speed of light.

Another example is the ubiquitous presence of gravity which also suggests a mechanism that vastly exceeds lightspeed. Mach's principle suggest this, whereby every part of the universe is linked to every other part. We don't have to go into such far out ideas as non-locality to comprehend this point. I myself, have transmitted impulses around the earth at speeds 1.5 time that of light, and further, I have measured cosmic rays that exceed lightspeed by five times.



Seeker: And you have proof?



Tesla: Naturally. I am presently working on a interplanetary tube that will send signals at twice the speed of light.



Seeker: Can you describe how this tube will function.



Tesla: This device should be ready sometime next year, and at that time I will demonstrate it and explain its principles in detail.



Seeker: Are you talking about hyperspatial dimensions?



Tesla: No. The physicists went wrong when they abandoned the ether theory. If you read Einstein carefully, he never said the ether did not exist, what he said was that it could not be detected. There must be something between the stars and galaxies and I prefer to call that something the ether. And this is easily proved. In fact, it is self evident.



Seeker: What do you mean.



Tesla: Take any point in space, say somewhere millions of lightyears between galaxies.



Seeker: OK. Now what?



Tesla: Will you agree that if you were situated at that point and had a telescope, you would see millions of stars and some galaxies.



Seeker: Yes.



Tesla: So, we see that every point in space contains the intersecting light from millions and millions of stars and galaxies. And that is only part of the story. The ether exists and has threshold values associated with its various properties. Certainly lightspeed is one such threshold. Rather than call the next level hyperspace, I prefer to link it to frequencies or oscillations that exceed that of light. Hyperspace implies popping in and out of dimensions, travelling back and forth in time and so on, and I for one, will not accept such views. My idea is much more simple. Certain cosmic rays vibrate and travel through the ether at frequencies that exceed lightspeed.



Seeker: You also disagree with Einstein concerning his idea that space is curved.



Tesla: It's nonsense. How can "nothing" be curved.



Seeker: Then how do you explain how light bends around large objects such as planets and stars.



Tesla: The light is bent by a force-field. All of this will be explained when I publish my theory on gravity. And for that matter, I also do not agree with Stephen Hawkings and his ideas on black holes in space. You read about these black holes in all the science magazines as if they are real things. They are not. They are theoretical constructs that do not exist in the real world.



Seeker: Since your work is so important, why is it that you are so little known by the general public?



Tesla: There are a number of reasons. The first is that once I sold my patents to Westinghouse on the AC polyphase system, this then became known as the Westinghouse system. Of course Steinmetz didn't help either.



Seeker: Why is that?



Tesla: Because he left my name out of his textbooks on my system! Same thing in wireless, as I alluded to earlier, once my Tesla coil and oscillators became part and parcel of any workable wireless system, such as the radio, one would think that the term Tesla waves would come into vogue. But no, the people in power referred to them as Hertzian waves, which are a myth. Intelligent information cannot be transmitted with Hertz's system, but can only be transmitted by my system, which I displayed before societies in England, France and America one, two and three years before Marconi even began his studies in the field. And then, of course, the conspiracy continues to this day.



Seeker: Is this just philosophizing or do you have proof?



Tesla: Proof?! Take Scientific American. Is that big enough for you. April 1997 -- there's a big three-page article on me and my work so what do they do, they say that Sebastian Ferranti invented the AC polyphase system in England in 1889. I write the editor, some young whippersnapper with a haughty grin, sticks his picture on the inside of every cover, and I show him my letter from Gisbert Kapp dated in 1888 where he thanks me for allowing him to publish my lecture so that engineers in England could begin to build my apparatus. And lo and behold, the following year Ferranti makes good. Do you think Scientific American would correct its story. NO! They ignored me even when I gave them signed proof! Not only that, this editor never even wrote me back! And then there is Nature. They actually said in their July 1997 issue that I had no mathematical skills! I had to threaten them with a lawsuit before they finally printed a retraction, which was done the following year!



Seeker: What about Morgan?



Tesla: What about Morgan?



Seeker: Do you think he sabotaged your work on wireless because of his holdings in copper, timber and rubber?



Tesla: Not a disparaging thing can be said about him. Mr. Morgan adhered to our contract to the letter.



Seeker: Well, do you think he played any role in diminishing your fame?



Tesla: Certainly not. I can only laugh when I hear people criticize Mr. Morgan. He was a nobleman of the highest order and towered above the Wall Street people like Samson over the Philistines.



Seeker: So, why is it that you failed?



Tesla: The world wasn't ready. Certain devices can be great advances, but if the time is not right, society does not integrate the invention into its markets.

NICOLAE TESLA, “UN ROMÂN VENIT DIN ALT SPAŢIU” (III)
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Motto: “Omul de ştiinţă nu ţinteşte un rezultat imediat. El nu se aşteaptă ca ideile sale să fie repede acceptate. Munca lui este asemeni acelui ce plantează pentru viitor. Datoria lui este să aştearnă fundaţia pentru cei ce vor veni, şi să le arate drumul. El trăieşte, munceşte şi speră”.

Moartea lui Tesla - misterul documentelor

LA SCURT timp după marea sa descoperire, Tesla moare, în plin război mondial. Invenţia lui putea schimba oricând soarta războiului, deci era firesc ca documentele şi notele savantului să devină o “comoară” vânată de serviciile secrete. FBI-ul s-a pus în mişcare, de teamă ca acestea să nu ajungă pe mâna Axei sau a sovieticilor.

A doua zi după moartea lui Tesla, dimineaţa, nepotul acestuia, Sava Kosanovic - oficial iugoslav dornic de avansare, suspectat că ar avea legături cu partidul comunist din ţara sa - se grăbea să ajungă în camera unchiului său de la hotelul New Yorker. Până când a ajuns el, corpul lui Tesla fusese deja ridicat, iar Kasanovic bănui că cineva scormonise deja prin lucruri. Avea dreptate: lipseau documente tehnice şi un caiet negru cu câteva sute de pagini, câteva dintre ele marcate “Guvernul” - pe care el ştia că unchiul său le păstra.

Documentele rămase au fost preluate de autorităţi şi anlizate de Biroul de Cercetare Ştiinţifică şi Dezvoltare. Concluzia dată publicităţii era menită să distragă atenţia de la importanţa uriaşă a muncii savantului: “Ideile şi eforturile lui Tesla din ultimii 15 ani au, în principal, un caracter speculativ, filosofic şi într-o oarecare măsură de promovare, adeseori referindu-se la producerea şi transmiterea fără fire a energiei electrice; nu sunt prezentate metode şi principii noi, solide şi funcţionale pentru a le pune în practică”.


În 1952, restul de documente şi bunuri ale lui Tesla au fost trimise lui Sava Kosanovic, la Belgrad. Aici a fost creat un muzeu în onoarea marelui inventator. Timp de mulţi ani, în timpul regimului comunist al lui Tito, sovieticii au fost singurii care au avut acces la documente.

Pe tot parcursul Războiului Rece, confruntarea s-a dat în jurul realizării practice a armelor şi surselor de energie propuse de Tesla. Se urmărea crearea unei arme care să protejeze America de un eventual război nuclear. Oficial, proiectul a fost un eşec. În realitate, nu se ştie până unde au mers realizările. Ideile lui Tesla sunt şi astăzi insuficient înţelese şi valorificate. Să nu uităm că el a propus ca sursă de energie forţa gravitaţională sau magnetismul, ori că este părintele armelor numite azi “psihotronice” care presupun un control al minţii umane prin intermediul undelor de înaltă frecvenţă, cu efectul îmbolnăvirii subite sau morţii.

Maşina de zbor Tesla: OZN-ul de azi

Tesla a brevetat o maşină de zbor (foto) care prin descrierile făcute de el însuşi este asemănătoare cu ceea ce noi numim azi OZN. Maşina se poate deplasa în orice direcţie, are decolare verticală şi foloseşte un motor alimentat wireless cu energie electrică, asfel că poate staţiona mult timp în aer. Tesla o destina uzului militar, dar şi celui civil, pentru a înlocui…automobilul. Este foarte probabil că ea a fost de mult fabricată, dar din considerente economice şi de altă natură, nu a trecut în uzul frecvent.

Ce ar însemna de exemplu o astfel de maşină pentru industria automobilului sau cea aeronautică? La fel ca mai toate marile descoperiri, ea va fi utilizată pe scară largă cu mari întârzieri, poate chiar de secole. Cea ce noi numim azi progres tehnologic avansat, s-a realizat în urmă cu un secol, dar abia acum a ajuns pe piaţă. Este păcat că interesele financiare, care impun exploatarea la maxim a unei descoperiri, şi abia apoi perfecţionarea, întârzie atât de mult progresul omenirii.

Descrierea acestui aparat o va face chiar Tesla, în numeroasele articole publicate în marile reviste americane:

„În urmă cu 20 de ani, credeam că voi fi primul om care va zbura, că eram pe punctul de a realiza ceva unic. Munca mea se desfăşura în domeniul electricităţii şi nu mi-am dat seama că motoarele cu benzină se dezvoltaseră atât de mult încât puteau face un avion fezabil. La vremea aceea, lucram la transmisia fără fire a energiei electrice. Ideea mea era să construiesc o maşină de zbor propulsată de un motor electric, alimentat cu energie de la staţiile de la sol. Încă nu am realizat aceasta, dar sunt sigur că o voi face la timpul potrivit. Când am aflat că am fost anticipat de cercetători din alte domenii, am început să studiez problema zborului din alte unghiuri. Devenea o problemă de mecanică, nu de electricitate. Ştiam că există surse de energie mai bune decât cele de acum, şi prin eforturi îndelungate, după ani de zile, am înţeles posibilitatea utilizării principiilor vâscozităţii şi aderenţei fluidelor în construcţia motorului meu”.

“Acum că am realizat motorul, următorul pas este maşina perfectă de zbor.” Un avion care să folosească motorul dumneavoastră?, a întrebat reporterul. Răspunsul lui Tesla este surprinzător şi acum, după aproape 100 de ani. “Maşina de zbor a viitorului - maşina mea de zbor - va fi mai grea decât aerul, dar nu va fi un avion. Nu va avea aripi şi nici propulsoare. Va fi solidă şi stabilă. Văzută la sol, nici nu îţi dai seam că e un aparat de zbor. Totuşi, va putea zbura în orice direcţie în perfectă siguranţă, la viteze mult mai mari decât cele atinse până acum, în ciuda curenţilor de aer verticali şi a golurilor de aer. Va putea urca şi în astfel de curenţi dacă e nevoie, staţiona în aer perioade mari de timp, chiar şi la viteze foarte mari ale vântului. Puterea sa de zbor nu va depinde de aripi, ca la păsări, ci de acţiuni mecanice pozitive”.

“Prevăd o dezvoltare a maşinilor de zbor care să o depăşească pe cea a automobilului. Mă aştept la o contribuţie importantă a domnului Ford la realizarea acestui progres. Problema locurilor de parcare şi a drumurilor aglomerate va fi rezolvată. Turnuri de parcare se vor înălţa în marile oraşe, iar şoselele se vor înmulţi doar atât cât este nevoie. În final, şoselele vor deveni inutile pentru că civilizaţia va abandona roţile pentru aripi”.

“Copilul visurilor lui Tesla”, cum numea inventatorul maşina sa de zbor, aşteaptă să fie redat oamenilor.

Previziunile lui Tesla

Cu toţii am auzit de previziunile lui Nostradamus, dar puţini ştiu că Tesla a văzut cu claritate ştiinţifică şi a contribuit la creerea viitorul nostru. Viziunile sale aruncă lumina peste multe din actualelele noastre probleme.

“Potrivit unui teorii care a fost acceptată, fiecare atom se diferenşiază printr-o mişcare de rotaţie continuă de eter, întocmai ca un vârtej într-un lac liniştit. Eterul, atunci când este pus în mişcare, devine materie. O dată ce mişcarea se opreşte, eterul revine la starea sa normală. Apare astfel extraordinara posibilitate ca omul să poată să facă materia să apară şi să dispară, cu condiţia să aibă instrumentele potrivite pentru a iniţia şi a opri aceste vârtejuri de eter. La comanda sa, aproape fără nici un efort, vechile lumi vor dispărea şi altele noi vor înflori. Omul ar putea modifica mărimea planetei, controla anotimpurile, modifica distanţa faţă de Soare, sau călăuzi eterna sa calătorie pe orice drum din Univers. Ar putea provoca cicniri de planete pentru a produce sori şi stele, căldura şi lumina sa.; ar putea crea viaţa în toate formele sale infinite. A realiza prin propria voinţă naşterea şi moartea materiei, ar fi cea mai mare reuşită a omului, transformându-l în stăpânul creaţiei fizice, împlinindu-şi astfel destinul său”.

“Dacă reuşim să eliberăm energia din atomi sau să descoperim un o sursă de energie ieftină şi inepuizabilă, disponibilă în orice zonă de pe glob, această realizare, în loc să fie o binecuvântare, poate aduce dezastrul omenirii, determinând disensiuni şi anarhie, cea ce va duce în final la mult urâtul regim al forţei. Cel mai mare bine vine din dezvoltarea tehnică care duce la unificare şi armonie, iar transmiterea wireless se înscrie în această linie. Prin intermediul acestui sistem, vocea umană va putea fi reprodusă oriunde, iar fabricile vor furniza energie de la mare depărtare de hidrocentrale; maşinile aeriene vor fi propulsate în jurul Pământului fără oprire, iar energia Soarelui va fi controlată pentru a crea lacuri şi râuri pentru a fertiliza marile deşerturi”.

“(…) va fi posibil pentru naţiuni să lupte fără armate, nave sau arme, cu arme mult mai teribile, care au o capacitate de acţiune distructivă nelimitată. Un oraş, aflat la orice distanţă de inamic, poate fi distrus - şi nici o forţă din lume nu poate opri aceasta. Dacă vrem să prevenim o calamitate apropiată şi transformarea globului într-un infern, ar trebui să accelerăm dezvoltarea maşinilor zburătoare şi a transmisiei energiei wireless fără de întârziere, cu toată puterea şi resursele naţiunii”. Tesla ştia de bomba atomică, întrucât Einstein l-a vizitat în noiembrie 1933, aflând de cercetarile lui asupra fisiunii nucleare. Este foarte probabil, că beneficiind de arhiva lui Tesla, după moartea acestuia, Einstein să fi realizat bomba atomică. Iar pericolul distrugerii pământului este un pericol real al secolului nostru, când orice nebun poate declanşa un război atomic. Şi ce bine seamănă noile arme cu cele descrise de Tesla! Nu sunt oare ele produse având la bază cercetările sale? Vă las să vă răspundeţi singuri.

“Implicarea femeii în noi domenii de acţiune, uzurparea graduală de catre ele a conducerii bărbaţilor, va disipa sensibilitatea feminină, va reduce instinctul matern, astfel că maternitatea şi căsătoria vor părea neplăcute şi civilizaţia umană se va apropia tot mai mult de civilizaţia perfectă a stupului de albine. Urmează o nouă ordine a sexului – conducerea de către femei. Veţi comunica instantaneu, printr-un simplu echipament de buzunar. Avioanele vor zbura fără piloţi, ghidate de la sol prin unde radio. O cantitate uriaşă de energie va fi transmisă fără fire. Cutremurele vor deveni din ce în ce mai frecvente. Zonele temperate vor deveni foarte reci sau toride. Şi cele mai multe dintre acestea sunt foarte aproape să se producă”.

Când se va anunţa că s-a descoperit transmisia energiei fără fir, vom şti că este de fapt o realizare veche a lui Tesla. Iar restul, le trăim la aproape un secol de când marele inventator le-a descris…

Tesla ne-a oferit şi răspunsul la întrebarea fundamentală, pe care ne-o punem toţi cei nu ne considerăm urmaşi de maimuţe “Ce este viaţa?”.

“Ştiinţa modernă declară: Soarele este trecutul, Pământul prezentul, iar luna viitorul. Dintr-o masă în flăcări ne-am născut, şi într-o masă îngheţată o să ne transformăm. Legea naturii este nemiloasă, şi suntem în mod irezistibil atraşi de destinul nostru. Lordul Kelvin ne dă o şansă redusă de viaţă: circa 6 milioane de ani, după care lumina Soarelui se va stinge, iar Pământul nostru va deveni un deşert de gheaţă, căzând în noaptea eternă. Totuşi, va rămâne o strălucitoare scânteie de viaţă, existând şansa să reaprindă viaţa pe o stea îndepărtată. Această posibilitate există într-adevăr”. Iată şi răspunsul: originea spaţială a omului conferă răspunsuri la multe din marile mistere ale omenirii. Poate şi de aceea, ea nu se vrea a fi cunoscută.

Sfarsit

Insusirea este numita perseverenta cand este folosita pentru o cauza buna si incapatanare daca e pusa in slujba unei cauze rele. (Lawrence Sterne)

THE TESLA INTERVIEW

PART 2



The following morning, the seeker, who was staying at the Waldorf, was awakened by a pecking at his window. When he opened the shade to take a look, a white dove flew in and settled on his web-linked cellular. The bird cocked his head and cooed. Stepping on the power button before he took flight, the bird sailed back out the window and banked out of sight. The seeker looked down at his liquid crystal display. "Meet me at 2 & 60," was all it said.



In a hurry to get dressed, the seeker grabbed a piece of toast, a cup of coffee and hailed a cab. Stepping out at the specified location, he looked up to the great 59th Street Bridge which loomed overhead. As he walked over to study its bulkhead, he heard a strange rattling at a steel doorway which lay embedded in its massive base.



"Come, come," the wizard motioned as the door creaked open. The visitor entered a darkened vestibule. As his eyes became adjusted, the man followed the old figure to another doorway which emanated in an eerie purple glow.



Whirring noises and snapping sounds crackled from the room as the man with the coveralls appeared and ushered them in.

"Czito," the wizard said. "This is Seeker."

They shook hands, Czito's grip firm and engulfing.

The seeker stared about the room at the myriad coils, strange devices, peculiar gears, globes that encased small lightning storms, long-tubed instruments and other spinning machinery.

"This looks like a good spot," the wizard said, taking his interviewer to a windowed alcove that overlooked the boat traffic by the river.



Seeker: Yesterday you spoke about inventions that are ahead of their time. Can you give us any modern examples?



Tesla: Velcro was patented in the 1950's. The inventor got the idea from those burrs one gets while walking out in fields. He received a mere thousand dollars for the invention, but it didn't take off until years after his patents lapsed. Holography has yet to be used at the level it was intended.



Seeker: And that was?



Tesla: Three-dimensional movies. Essential-ly, the same thing happened with my wireless phone and with wireless communication in general. By the time radio really came into its own, starting in the late1920's, my patents were no longer valid, and so I suffered financially because of it.



Seeker: Didn't the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company compensate you?



Tesla: Meagerly, and only after I threatened suit. I had already given them the patents on the AC polyphase system, the electrical power distribution system that earned them hundreds of millions of dollars, and now they were beginning a new venture, radio broadcasting, all based on other patents which I had offered to them a generation earlier, and at first they tried to stonewall me, but eventually they capitulated and gave me a consulting fee and also took care of my rent at the Hotel New Yorker before I decided to go underground in 1943.



Seeker: It has been stated that your were a celibate. What is your view of women. Do you think a woman could ever be president?



Tesla: I made the decision long ago to devote my life to science. Had I gotten married, and Lord knows, Kate Johnson tried to hitch me, I would never have had the time to devote to my work. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomenon the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fomenting in the bosom of the race. It is not in the shallow physical imitation of the men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of their intellect. As generations ensue, the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated into an activity that will be all the more intense because of centuries of repose. This tendency is apparently being accelerated as we enter the new century, and so I expect that a competent women will become president before not too long.



Seeker: Do you have any opinion about the situation in Yugoslavia?



Tesla: I'm appalled by the violence and discord. My father was a Serbian minister and we lived, after my brother died, in the town of Gospic in the province of Croatia. I had both Serb and Croat friends and also had buddies who were German, Italian and French as Gospic was a thriving city at that time.

My father was a strong believer in the Yugoslav idea, that is to say, that all Slavs are one. Certain towns and cities became unified enclaves for Croats and Serbs and even Turks, who today are called Bosnians. It was these centers including Durbrovnik and Sarajevo that were bombed by the militant ethnics, because it was their plan to destroy the Yugoslav idea and gain independence for each separate state.



Seeker: Why is there so much hatred among these three people?



Tesla: For different reasons. The Croats and the Serbs are the same people separated by geography and religion. The Croats are Roman Catholic and live in Croatia, along the Adriatic. The Serbs, for the most part, live in Belgrade or in Montenegro in the interior of the country closer to Bulgaria and Romania, and these people are Orthodox Greek Catholics. One main difference in the two religions is that the Roman Catholics adhere to the Pope in Rome, whereas the Orthodox Greeks do not. Their priests, such as my father, are able to marry. There are many other differences between the two groups as well. For instance, through the centuries, the Croats sought to become Westernized, whereas the Serbs were generally frontiersmen, many of whom spent much of their time fighting the Turks who through the Ottoman Empire threatened Europe. The Europeans can never repay the great debt it owes to the Serbs for checking, by the sacrifice of their own liberty that barbarian influx.

In the 1300's, during the Battle of Kossovo, the Serbian kingdom was wiped out by the Ottoman Turks, many of whom moved into Bosnia, and the Serbs have hated the Turks from that day on. So you have three separate factions, each who cannot tolerate the other. Unfortunately, in my own village of Gospic, where a statue of me was placed in a town square named in my honor, the hate between the Croats and Serbs continues. Just within this past decade the statue was blown apart, an old Serbian military man who had lived in the town his entire life was murdered, and the square was renamed for a Croatian hero instead.



Seeker: But isn't much of the ethnic cleansing initiated by Serbs?



Tesla: Barbarians, unfortunately, come in all stripes. I do not condone killing of any kind. One of the underlying reasons for the mass killings has to do with the overpopulation. Bosnians tend to have large families, whereas the Serbs generally have only one or two children. This, of course, is not a reason to....



Seeker: ... even out the playing field?



Tesla: Yes. But it does raise an important issue completely neglected by most of the world leaders and that is the vast overpopulation of the planet. In the following century, we will see eugenics universally established.



Seeker: Population control?



Tesla: Of course. It has already begun in China where we have see families restricted to one child per household. Unfortunately, the opposite trend is evident in America. Not only have we seen the breakdown of the family unit but also a startling rise in single parents and unwanted pregnancies. Having children out of wedlock is undesirable, and in fact, we should go one step further, and make the process of marriage more difficult and impose penalties on those who produce children without the ability to care for them.



Seeker: So you are opposed to the welfare system?



Tesla: The welfare system only exists in this country. But certainly here, it has interfered with the natural process of survival of the fittest which has been set up in the Almighty wisdom of nature to weed out less desirable strains. A governmental body instituted through the United Nations should educate the youth in rigorous fashion, prevent unfit individuals from having children and control population by restricting families to one or two children at most. Monogamous relationships through marriage should be fostered and education about hygiene should be promulgated.



Seeker: There has been some controversy about how your brother died. One recent biography stated that there were rumors that you pushed your brother down a flight of stairs and that is what caused his death.



Tesla: My brother died in an accident with a horse when I was five years old and he was twelve. This rumor was started by a screenplay writer whose name was Arthur Beckhard. It was picked up at my museum in Belgrade and then spread by ignorant writers who were not able to trace to crazy story to its proper source.



Seeker: Thomas Edison ranks first on Life Magazine's 100 People Who Made the Millennium list. You land 57th. Yet, AC polyphase power system is fundamental to our modern age. Why do you think you're repeatedly cast in the background as a great scientist?



Tesla: Can I see that list? [Seeker hands Tesla the list.] So, they have Edison above Galileo, Michael Faraday, Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton? Well, if Life Magazine says so....

I am honored to be in such company. It hasn't always been the case. For instance, in the Smithsonian Book of Invention, published in 1978 and written by the museum curators and other leading experts, although they listed Edison (lightbulb), Ely Whitney (cotton gin), Fulton (steamboat), Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Ford (automobile), Daguerre (camera), Gould (laser) and Farnsworth (TV camera), my name is nowhere to be found! Considering that I left one of the largest caches of my files at the Smithsonian, I was amazed and insulted.



Seeker: Isn't it possible that your own actions -- talking to Martians, free energy, death rays contributed to damaging your reputation?



Tesla: There is every evidence that there are intelligent forces in the solar system or galaxy. In 1899 I received beated pulsed frequencies which were obvious signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life which I thought might have come from the planet Mars.



Seeker: One recent biographer has suggested that these three pulses came from, dare I say, your competitor Marconi, who was experimenting in transmitting the Morse code for the letter S, namely dot. dot. dot. at the very time that you claimed you received these messages.



Tesla: All poppycock. There is nothing more important than interplanetary communication and I have the equipment for achieving the best results. If this makes me a mad scientist, so be it. You asked before why my name has been obscured, another reason is because numerous individuals simply take my work, adopt it as their own and feel no need to credit the source of their inspiration. Take Steven Spielberg for instance. One of his early achievements is the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The entire premise of that film was adopted right from my article "Talking With the Planets" whereby I stated that it would be through electrical impulses based upon mathematical patterns that communications with extraterrestrials would begin. Did Spielberg give me credit? No! I threatened suit against him and he claimed that because my idea was over 75 years old it was in the public domain and that I didn't have a case, so I dropped it. Another example was John Galt in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. This was a tremendous hit when it came out, and it's still a best seller. The novel starts with the line, "Who is John Galt." Two hundred pages into the book we finally meet Galt, and he's an inventor working on a coil which draws electrical energy from the atmosphere. Don't you think she should have called me or made some overt reference to my work? The same thing goes for David Bowie who played the extraterrestrial in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. This is another veiled reference to my work, which again, went uncredited. At least James Redfield mentioned me in his newest book on the Celestine Prophecy called the Tenth Insight. My work has always been for the future and I believe that five hundred years from now my achievements will be recognized fairly.



Seeker: Aside from Edison, who were your other great rivals: Steinmetz? Pupin? Marconi?



Tesla: Pupin was more an ignoramus than a rival. He couldn't even speak the native tongue properly. He had sided with Elihu Thomson, who along with Charles Steinmetz were my main rivals in the field of alternating current. Steinmetz and Thomson were working for the company that came to be called General Electric, and they were stuck with the wrong AC patents. So they stole our blueprints and began reverse engineering my induction motor and polyphase design. The scheme was uncovered and they were taken to court. Westinghouse, who owned my patents prevailed. This didn't stop Steinmetz from writing entire textbooks on AC without referencing my name! This tact, of removing my name from my invention was carried on by Pupin, who was teaching electrical engineering at Columbia University at that time. He actually had the audacity to write in his autobiography that the reason why the AC system was put in at Niagara Falls was because of the work of Elihu Thomson, my competitor! Pupin neglected to inform his readers that it is my name that is listed 12 times on the patent placque at Niagara and that it was Nikola Tesla who was invited to speak there as the inventor. I am sorry for him, that is all I can say.



Seeker: And Marconi?



Tesla: I spoke before the Royal Society in London in 1892 when Marconi was a junior in high school. And there, in London, I slept at Sir William Preece's house and spent a weekend with Ambrose Fleming showing each of them all my equipment. A few years later, when Marconi came to England to look for funding, he demonstrated his primitive Hertzian toy which sent dots and dashes across a room or from one building to another and Preece, who was the head of the Post Office and the most well respected electrician in England, took him under his wing. Shortly thereafter, Fleming was called in. Preece wrote to ask me if they could use my oscillators, and naturally I said yes, but Marconi told them he did not need my equipment, and I naively believed that they would continue to use the Hertzian method.

Four years later, in 1901, I read an article by the Italian whereby he said that he used a Tesla coil to produce the oscillations necessary for long distance wireless communication. He also made use of my antenna and ground connection. I wrote Preece of my concern. He tried to talk to Marconi, and all I got was an offer of worthless stock, not capital, which I needed, so I turned the offer down and watched to my horror how Marconi continued to use my apparatus without my permission. Preece was ashamed, quit the company and spent a year in Egypt. But the damage had been done. Marconi used this scheme to transmit his measly Morse code across the Atlantic, and the funding of my wireless project was quickly dropped.



Seeker: What was your view of George Westinghouse?



Tesla: George Westinghouse was a man with tremendous potential energy of which only part had taken kinetic form. Like a lion in the forest, he breathed deep and with delight the smoky air of his Pittsburgh factories. Always affable and polite, he stood in marked contrast to the small-minded financiers I had been trying to negotiate with before I met him. Yet, no fiercer adversary could have been found when aroused. Although impressive in ordinary life, he was transformed into a giant when confronted with difficulties that seemed insurmountable. During the height of the war of the currents, when death row inmates were being electrocuted with our AC system as a PR campaign by the Edison crowd against us, Westinghouse welcomed the struggle and never lost confidence. When others would give up in despair, he triumphed.



Seeker: Were you always on good terms with him?



Tesla: Yes. My troubles with the Westinghouse company had nothing to do with George. They had taken on enormous debt in their fight against General Electric in order to win the right to light the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and Niagara Falls in 1897, and it would be a long time before their company was profitable again. I believe their debt by the late 1890's was nearly one hundred million. That is when some of the small-minded backers of the company wrestled George from the seat of power and made him a titular head instead. It was somewhat remindful of what happened to Stephen Jobs in the late 1980's. Jobs, as we mentioned before, wanted to scrap all of Apple's Apple II computers and switch over entirely to the Macintosh which was their new disk operating system. This meant canning thousands of computers, many of which were in schools so he could convert to a more advanced but untried system. Rather than comply with Jobs request, the board kicked him out of his own company. Abandoned for nearly 10 years, they finally took him back when the company was on the verge of going under, and he brought them back to where they are today. It was a similar thing with Westinghouse, but he was kept on only as a figure head. So when I tried in the early 1900's to get additional funding for my wireless enterprise, they balked and he was powerless. It was really sad to see such an important figure without recourse. He died before his time in 1914, in part, because of this disappointment.



Seeker: When Marconi and RCA were pursuing wireless technology, what were you doing? Why didn't you persist, since technically you got to the wireless arena first?



Tesla: This was during the Great War and shortly thereafter, when the United States was still neutral. I was working with the German concern Telefunken on redesigning their intercontinental equipment. They had two plants, one in New Jersey and one on Long Island, and both were easily communicating across the Atlantic with Berlin in the heart of Germany. Telefunken was paying me $2,000 a month against 5% royalties. Unfortunately, the German situation became intolerable, particularly with the sinking of the Lusitannia, and I broke off all contact with them and lost a considerable fortune. It is very costly to litigate. Most of my patents had lapsed by the time RCA was created in 1920, and I was simply cut out of the deal. I had also shifted my focus to bladeless turbines at that time and was living in Chicago, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. My plans were to create steam engines and turbines to replace the gasoline engine in the car, and also other engines on the airships, submarines, in torpedoes and on ocean liners. I was hoping through the sale of this engine, particularly to Henry Ford, that I would realize the profits I would need to erect a new transmission tower and thereby dwarf the puny technology that was in existence at that time.



Seeker: You mean RCA.



Tesla: Yes, and the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Had I sold my engine to Ford, I would have moved to the next step and that would be to eliminate almost totally the use of fossil fuels in cars, planes and ships. The wireless towers would provide the power instead. So, that was my plan and that was what I was working on at that time. I also offered the plan to the governmetn with my friend John Flowers, but they also turned it down. It is shameful that at this day and age we are still relying on non-renewable sources of energy like gasoline. My plant at Niagara Falls is a renewable source of clean energy. It is ecologically responsible and environmen-tally sound.

The present needs of our industrial society have not only polluted the air, they have also caused a tear in the ozone layer above the planet. My wireless transmission tower was set up to beam carrier waves into the upper atmosphere. Certainly the system as I designed it could also have been used to transmit ozone and repair this dangerous hole.



Seeker: Some of your followers have said that you should be called the father of the internet. Do you agree?



Tesla: Well, you can decide for yourself. I said in 1904, that my scheme of "World Telegraphy" is easily realizable. It constitutes a radical and fruitful departure from what has been done heretofore involving the employment of a number of plants each of each of [which] will be preferably located near some important center of civilization. The news it receives through any channel will be flashed to all points of the globe. A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one's pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world's news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts. Since a single plant of but one hundred horse-power can operate hundreds of millions of instruments, the system will have a virtually infinite working capacity.



Seeker: Had you envisioned the world wide web as we have it now?



Tesla: No. I saw or foresaw the inter-connection of all civilized people all over the earth by voice and picture. I was also planning on providing a world-wide news service which would have delivered each day's news through a machine similar to today's facsimile machine, thereby making newspapers obsolete. My vision was more in line with what came to be called mass communications and the cellular age.



Seeker: You have written a number of articles suggesting that you planned to communicate with beings on other planets.



Tesla: After I received communication which I attributed to the planet Mars, I set my sights on developing a way to transmit intelligent signals and also power to neighbors in this solar system and beyond. Some of my first experiments involved the transmission of a thin ray of light to the part of the moon that was darkened. This was done with my associate Mr. Czito in 1918 for the purposes of demonstration. The point of energy was very easily seen, and this same beam could also be used with needle-nosed accuracy to transmit signals and energy to other planets as well.



Seeker: Was this a laser beam?



Tesla: Similar, but it is a different kind of energy that travels through a channel of less than one-half of one-millionth of a centimeter. This invention, which I will shortly announce to the world, utilizes a new source of power which is the same power that operates the universe. This cosmic energy, whose central source for the earth is the sun, is present everywhere and in unlimited quantities.



Seeker: Such as free energy?



Tesla: In a sense. One needs an apparatus to harness it. From the actual mechanical contrivance which I have developed, the power to drive engines and machines can be transmitted either by wire or by my wireless system, as preferred, from central plants to the other side of the world, to across the street, or a million miles away, whichever one prefers. These central plant engines that mechanize the cosmic energy will operate on an entirely new principle, thereby developing hundreds of thousands of horsepower, as much power as one desires. Any number of such central plants can be built, so there is no limit to the volume of power which it will be possible to develop for the turning of machinery -- for the running of trains and automobiles, the driving of ships, the operating of factories, the myriad different motor tasks now performed by engines and machines which derive their power from the regular fuels of industry. When this new power becomes commercially available, there will be no further necessity for depending on coal, oil, gas or any other of the common fuels.



Seeker: You say this new source will be come from the sun?



Tesla: Yes. And the stars. Having struggled with the problem for the last 103 years, I can state after prolonged investigation, that I have discovered a heretofore unknown source of power. The sun's potential is 216 billions of volts and like other heavenly bodies, it emits cosmic rays. When I first announced this fact, in 1896, it was scoffed at, but now cosmic rays are an accepted phenomena. However, present day scientists, blinded by relativity, and only measuring these rays on the surface of the earth, think that these rays are limited to the speed of light. This is not so.



Seeker: How fast do they travel?



Tesla: I have measured cosmic rays as far back as 1896 that travel 50 times the speed of light, and I believe that others travel 500 times. I have already designed apparatus to transmit impulses twice the speed of light to go to other planets and to nearby stars.



Seeker: And you have harnessed these cosmic rays?



Tesla: Of course. My investigations have brought out the astonishing fact that the effects of these rays at high altitudes are of an entirely different nature than here on earth. That is one of the reasons why present-day scientists have not measured the same results. They are looking too low to the ground. There are particles of matter projected from celestial bodies that are at very high temperatures and charged to enormous electrical potentials.This is the discovery which I wish to make known. The sun projects charged particles constituting an electric current which passes through a conducting stratum of the atmosphere approximately 10 kilometers thick enveloping the earth. The passage of the solar current involves the transference of electric charges from particle to particle with the speed of light, this resulting in the production of extremely short and penetrating waves which have a 2 billion volt differential from the dark side to the light side of the earth. This energy differential accounts for the aurora borealis and other phenomena. Just as a waterfall presents a constant flow of renewable energy, so does this process. My central plants harness this differential to provide an unending stream of energy derived from the wheelwork of the universe. I expect, this invention to be fully operational within a year.



Seeker: You were one of the first scientists to experiment with solar energy. Today, solar energy has been relegated to the margins of alternative energy research. In its place is the newest rage -- hydrogen power. What went wrong with solar? And do yo think hydrogen will be the next revolution in energy since fossil fuels?



Tesla: I don't know much about hydrogen power. One of the greatest problems with solar energy is in storing the energy. That is where the research should be focussed on. Although present day scientists see the sun as radiating energy, it is my belief that the sun is absorbing vast amounts of energy from elsewhere in the galaxy. I further believe that radioactive material is simply a target which is continuously bombarded by infinitesimal bullets projected from these same radiating bodies from all parts of the universe. These particles are a type of cosmic ray that vastly exceed the speed of light. The study of solar energy should not be abandoned. It is one of the greatest sources of renewable energy and provides solutions for many of the problems that vex our society.



Seeker: You refused to share the 1915 Nobel Prize with Edison. Why?



Tesla: Edison was a builder of better mouse traps. Every one of his inventions including the movie camera, the lightbulb, microphone, even his phonograph were simply improvements upon the discovery and the works of others. And for that, he deserves a dozen Nobel Prizes. I, on the other hand, was a discoverer of new principles. I discovered the rotating magnetic field which enabled AC to be harnessed for the first time. I discovered the concept of continuous wave oscillations which enabled voice, pictures and power to be transmitted by means of wireless, I discovered the principle of remote control, I made practicable the concept of artificial intelligence by constructing the first ever non-biological life-form which I called the telautomaton, I conceived of the idea of selective tuning and generated the patents which enabled an infinite number of wireless channels to be created, I invented the bladeless turbine which did away with propellers, I invented an oscillator which made the crank-shaft obsolete, designed an airplane that could take off vertically like a helicopter and tilt the propeller into the conventional horizontal position, I figured out how to use the principle of repulsion to construct particle beam guns that could protect a country's borders, sink ships and take down planes. All of these ideas are original to me. There are no precursors. I was not a mere inventor like Edison, but a creator of new principles. I have not less than four dozen of my creations identified with my name in technical literature. These are honors real and permanent which are bestowed not by a few who are apt to err, but by the whole world which seldom makes a mistake, and for any of these, I would gladly give all the Nobel Prizes which will be distributed during the next thousand years.



Seeker: And today, do you see any analogous situations?



Tesla: Certainly. There are many scientists who are overlooked for the work they do, and on the other side of the stick, there also individuals who call themselves scientists when they are really politicians. A number of these in this second group make statements supporting the tobacco industry. Others have been ousted from academia as rightly they should for fudging data because it supports their premise. There is a tendency in funding which precludes aiding for the independent scientist and a tunnel vision that latches on to such crazy notions as worm holes and black holes in space, neither of which exist in the real world but, rather exist in the imagination as theoretical constructs.



Seeker: What do you think of the inventor in today's society and his relationship to the corporate world?



Tesla: There is a concerted move to strip the inventor of his patents or provide a legal basis to use protected material, and a callous attitude that favors the corporate giants who purposely pirate or reverse engineer the inventions of individual inventors because they know it will be too costly for them to litigate. Part of the corporations' strategy is that in the long run it will actually be cheaper to take their chances on immediate profits and pay any legal loss if infringement can be proven. Many times it is nearly impossible to prove infringement even when it blatantly occurs. Just recently, Time Magazine ran an article about a man who was imprisoned because he utilized university facilities to design his creations and he was unwilling to hand the patents over to them. He preferred jail and lost his marriage in the process. One of the most successful inventors of the modern day, Jerome Lemulson, whose creations include laser memory cards, the audio cassette drive mechanism, stop-frame on video recorders and the floppy disk, spends 90% of his time in litigation! He does most of his creative work on trains on his way to court, and during off time during the trials! Gordon Gould, one of the key inventors of the laser didn't win his suit until he was an old man and so revenues gained were essentially useless to him. Edwin Armstrong, one of my protegés and inventor of AM and FM radio, had to sue David Sarnoff and NBC as they were using his FM frequencies in television transmission. Rather than admit their piracy, they simply accused him of infringement instead! Not only did he lose his entire fortune, which was over a million dollars, he lost his marriage and committed suicide by jumping out a building. NBC eventually compensated his family after his death. A similar thing happened to Robert Goddard, inventor of the rocket ship who was forced to sue the U.S. government for patent infringement. His suit, like Armstrong's wasn't settled until after his death as well.



Seeker: Why did the government (FBI) raid your lab and confiscate your notes after you d---- er, after it was reported that you had passed on? What do you think they were looking for? Were you hiding something?



Tesla: On the contrary. This was during the height of World War II and the fear was the Germany would win and take over the world. My plan was simple: have each country arm its borders with particle beam weapons. Had America, the Soviet Union, England and France listened to me, they would have been able to ward off theLuftwaffe, which was the most destructively successful element to any German invasion. After I disappeared in 1943, the FBI and U.S. War department raided my apartment to get the plans for this weapon for the simple reason that they did not want the Germans or any other country to obtain it. It was my idea to publicize the details of this invention, for I sincerely believed that if all nations had a foolproof way of protecting its borders, war would become obsolete.





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Off in the distance, a helicopter caught the wizard's eye. He stared down the river at it as he pulled out a pocket watch. "I'm sorry, my young friend, but I have another appointment. Would it be all right if Czito showed you out?"

"Yes," the visitor said, "and thank you."

"Not at all." The wizard extended his hand. As the seeker reached out, a spark flew between them. The ancient cognoscenti's fingers were long and wiry, his grip electric. "It's been a pleasure."

"Yes, it has," the seeker replied.

As the visitor exited the strange building, he noticed a military insignia on the aircraft as it landed on a helipad two blocks north of the bridge. The traffic was ghastly and he could see no more, so he turned west and walked back toward his hotel.





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ENDNOTES

1. Dr. Tesla at 77 seldom sleeps. New York Times, 7/11/1033, 19:5; Tesla, 76, reports his talents at peak. New York Times, 6/10/1932, 19:1.



2. Tesla seeks to send power to planets. New York Times, 7/11/1931.



3. Electricity's value cited in war on cancer. New York American, 9/7/1932.



4. Nikola Tesla correspondence, 3/2/1942, Leland Anderson files.



5. Tesla said Edison was an empiricist. New York Times, 10/19/1931.



6. Tesla, Nikola. The problem of increasing human energy. The Century Magazine, 6/1900.



7. Tesla, Nikola. The transmission of electric energy without wires. Electrical World & Engineer, 3/5/1904, pp. 429-431.



8. On orthorotational speeds exceeding lightspeed, see George Gamow's 30 Years That Shook Physics. Also, Marc Seifer's article "Taking on Einstein," Extraordinary Science, Jan/Feb/Mar 1996, pp. 38-43.



9. Seifer, Marc. The Universe is a Holarchy. MetaScience Quarterly, 1, 1, 1979, pp. 92-100.



10. Adapted from Kennedy, John. "When women is boss -- an interview with Nikola Tesla. Colliers, 1/30/1926.



11. "A Machine to End War," interview with Nikola Tesla by George Sylvester Viereck, Liberty, 2/9/1935.



12. Tesla, Nikola. Pioneer radio engineer gives views on power. In J.Ratzlaff, (Ed), Tesla Said. Milbrae, CA: Tesla Book Company, 1984, pp. 240-242. Also discussions with Professior Edwin Gora, Physics Department, Providence College, 1988.



13. Tesla at 79 discovers new message wave. Action Telegram, 10/2/1936. Device to harness cosmic energy, New York American, 11/1/1933, 1:1; Nikola Tesla address before the press, 7/11/1936, from K. Swezey papers, Smithsonian Institute. Dr. Tesla predicts linking planets, New York Times, 7/11/1937, 1: 4,5; Nikola Tesla at 79. New York World Telegram, 7/11/1935.



14. Tesla letter to R.U. Johnson, 3/1916, Butler Library, Columbia University, NY.





BIBLIOGRAPHY

Seifer, Marc. Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla. New York, NY: Citadel Press, 1999.



Seifer, Marc, and Behar, Michael. "Electric Mind", Wired Magazine, October 1998.



ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Tesla. 1893 The Researches, Writings & Inventions of Nikola Tesla,T.C. Martin, (Ed). New York, NY: Electrical World Publ.



Tesla. 6/1900 The Problem of Increasing Human Energy. The Century Magazine, June, 1900, pp. 175-211.



Tesla.1919 My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Ben Johnston, (Ed.), Williston, VT: Hart Publ, 1981.



Tesla. 1937 The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through the Natural Medium. In Raucher & Grotz, pp. 144-150, 1984.



Tesla. 1956 Nikola Tesla: Lectures, Patents & Articles. Belgrade: Nikola Tesla Museum.



Tesla. 1961 Tribute to NIkola Tesla: Letters, Articles,. Belgrade: Nikola Tesla Museum, 1961.



Tesla. 1979 Colorado Springs Notes & Commentary. Alexander Marincic, (Ed.), Belgrade: Nikola Tesla Museum, 1979.



Tesla. 1981 Solutions to Tesla's Secrets. J. Ratzlaff (Ed), Milbrae, CA: Tesla Book Co.



Tesla. 1984 Tesla Said. J. Ratzlaff (Ed), Milbrae, CA: Tesla Book Co.



BIOGRAPHY

Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. editor of the Journal of the American Society of Professional Graphologists works for the Attorney General's Office in Rhode Island as a handwriting expert. He has lectured at the United Nations, West Point, in Jerusalem, Zagreb, at the University of Vancouver, Cambridge University, Oxford University, at seven International Tesla Society conferences in Colorado Springs and at numerous conferences throughout the United States. Featured in The New York Times, New Scientist, The Washington Post and on the back cover of Uri Geller's book Mind Medicine, his publications include articles in Civilization, Lawyer's Weekly and Wired. His works include STARETZ ENCOUNTER (novel), THE BIG FRAME (true crime), INWARD JOURNEY: FROM FREUD TO GURDJIEFF (metaphysics) and WIZARD : THE LIFE & TIMES OF NIKOLA TESLA (Citadel Press/Kensington). WIZARD was boxed and starred in Publisher's Weekly, called "a serious piece of scholarship" in Scientific American, RECOMMENDED by Choice, and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

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Nikola Tesla (Nicolae Teslea, n. 10 iulie 1856, satul Smiljan, în apropiere de Gospić, Croaţia, pe atunci Graniţa Militară Croată - d. 7 ianuarie 1943, New York) a fost un inventator, fizician, inginer mecanic şi inginer electrician american de origine istroromână[1]. Tesla este considerat ca fiind unul dintre cei mai mari oameni de ştiinţă ai sfârşitului de secol 19 şi începutului de secol 20. Invenţiile, precum şi munca teoretică ale lui Tesla au pus bazele cunoştinţelor moderne despre curentul alternativ, puterea electrică, sistemele de curent alternativ, incluzând sistemele polifazate, sistemele de distribuţie a puterii şi motorul pe curent alternativ, care au determinat cea de-a doua Revoluţie Industrială.
Una dintre cele mai importante invenţii ale sale este generatorul de curent alternativ, contribuind de asemenea la construirea hidrocenteralei de lângă Cascada Niagara.

În Statele Unite ale Americii, faima lui Tesla rivalizează în istorie şi cultură populară cu cea a altui mare inventator Thomas Edison. După demonstraţia sa de transmisie de semnale fără fir în anul 1893 şi după ce a câştigat în "Războiul Curenţilor", dovedind avantajele transmisiei la distanţă a curentului alternativ, în comparaţie cu curentul continuu, al cărui adept era Edison, el a fost recunoscut ca cel mai mare inginer electrician al Americii. O mare parte din munca sa de început a pus bazele ingineriei electrice moderne, iar descoperirile sale ştiinţifice sunt de o importanţă colosală. Cum niciodată nu s-a priceput la administrarea veniturilor proprii, Tesla a murit sărac şi uitat la vârsta de 86 de ani. În ultimii ani de viată, Tesla era privit ca un om de ştiinţă nebun remarcându-se prin declaraţii bizare despre posibile dezvoltări ştiinţifice.

Amprenta lui Tesla poate fi observată în civilizaţia modernă oriunde este folosită electricitatea. Pe lângă descoperirile sale despre electromagnetism şi inginerie, Tesla este considerat un pionier în domeniile roboticii, balisticii, ştiinţa calculatoarelor, fizicii nucleare şi fizicii teoretice. Tesla considera cercetarea diferitelor întrebări ridicate de către ştiinţă drept cea mai nobilă metodă de îmbunătăţire a condiţiei umane cu ajutorul principiilor ştiinţei şi progresului industrial şi una care să fie compatibilă cu natura. Totuşi, o parte din munca sa a fost ultilizată într-un mod mai puţin ortodox şi într-un mod controversat, pentru a susţine pseudo teorii ştinţifice, teorii despre OZN-uri şi ocultism-ul New Age.

Sa adaugam si bancnotele sarbesti cu chipul sau.

Cand e vorba de bani,toti sunt de aceeasi religie.

TESLA BLUE PORTRAIT:SE PARE CA ERA INDRAGOSTIT DE RESPECTIVA DOAMNA ARISTOCRATA.

AICI AVETI SI UN SCURT ISTORIC AL TABLOULUI:

Tesla’s blue portrait rediscovered!!
February 27, 2009

Tesla Blue Portrait is back!

tesla-portrait
At NordseeMuseum Husum, a unique oil-painting from New York City, thought to be lost for 85 years, has been rediscovered in our archives. The treasure found might correctly be called a sensation, as the canvas shows the only portrait of the famous inventor of Alternating Current and the radio, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). Tesla has been called a „Master of lightning“, „the genius, who lit the world“; or: „He invented the future.“ No superlative seems too big to characterize this brilliant inventor, whom the world owes not only radio and ‘electricity from the grid, i.e. A.C.-generators, -transformers, and –motors, but remote control and fluorescent lamps as well. The first power station on an industrial scale at Niagara-Falls was equipped with turbines based on Tesla’s Polyphase System, the power grid still feeding the world with electrical energy. Maybe the work of Nikola Tesla can be summarized best in the words of physics-Nobel-prizewinner Arthur Holly Compton: „Tesla is entitled to the enduring gratitude of mankind.”

Hard to believe but Nikola Tesla only once in his lifetime sat for a portrait, and he did this only for the painter-princess Vilma Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy. The blue light for illuminating the setting was installed by the inventor himself at her atelier. When on March 1st 1916 the public could examine the portrait for the first time, it made a blue impression, an effect created by blue filters placed in front of specially designed lamps. This is how the oil-painting got its name as the ‚blue portrait‘.

The NordseeMuseum will present this unique treasure on March 2nd 2009, 11 o’clock at a public press presentation - first time ever in EUROPE - first time after 85 years!!! The follow-up exhibition will be „Mythos, Strom und eine Malerfürstin. Das „blue portrait“ von Nikola Tesla, dem Mann, der die Welt erleuchtete“. (Myth, electricity and the painter-princess. The „blue portrait“ of Nikola Tesla, the „man who lit he world“).

NU ERA URATA RESPECTIVA DOAMNA.SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.

www.suvcw.org/ny/camps/sickles/parlaghy.htm

AICI VETI GASI LUCRURI MAI PUTIN CUNOSCUTE DEPRE TESLA,CEL PUTIN CATEVA SI VETI PUTEA AFLA CAT DE MULTE S-AU PIERDUT SAU AU FOST FACUTE PIERDUTE DE CATRE INAMICII SI MAI ALES DE CATRE PARTIZANII LUI EDISON.
EDISON L-A URAT PE TESLA ,IN SPECIAL PT CURENTUL ALTERNATIV(EDISON ERA UN FERVENT SUSTINATOR AL CURENTULUI CONTINUU).SI MAI ALES PT CA ERA UN VIZIONAR(TESLA),ASA CUM RAR SE NASC PE TERRA.
DE EX.NOKIA A ANUNTAT URMATOARELE(CITITI SI VA MINUNATI CATI ANI LE-AU TREBUIT SA-L INTELEAGA,SA ACCEPTE INVENTIA ACESTUIA SI SA O AJUSTEZE TEHNICII ACTUALE.


tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/143945?comment_start=166&comment_count=20

AVETI AICI URMATOAREA FRAZA:
A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system (there's no other way, really, as the energy in any given wave is infinitesimal). It's the same idea that Tesla was exploring 100 years ago, just on a tiny scale.
100 DE ANI LE-AU TREBUIT.

"M-au numit nebun in 1896 cand am anuntat descoperirea razelor cosmice. Adeseori si-au batut joc de mine si apoi, peste ani, au vazut ca aveam dreptate.
Acum presupun ca istoria se va repeta cand afirm ca am descoperit o sursa de energie pana acum necunoscuta, o energie fara limite, care poate fi canalizata."
(Nikola Tesla)

restulstirilor.blogspot.com/2009/06/cititi-nikola-tesla.html

*Per la Scienza il Calabrone non potrebbe volare perché il suo corpo e troppo grande rispetto alle ali. Il Calabrone questo non lo sa, e vola !* *Toti oamenii te aud cand vorbesti; prietenii insa inteleg ce spui, iar cei mai buni prieteni sunt cei care pricep si ceea ce n-ai spus in cuvinte.* *Spesso, la verità più profonda, si trova grazie ad una piccola storia* *Vulturul poate zbura mai jos decat gainile, dar gainile nu se vor putea ridica niciodata pana la nori* *"Ca urmare a asezarii geografice, a resurselor naturale si, mai ales a celei mai mici densitati (populationale) din Europa, Romania n-a fost niciodata un stat absolut independent. Tipul de Roman repudiat de toate puterile tutelare este nationalistul cu convingeri imposibil de corupt si patriotul refractar la operatii transactionale. Aceste insusiri de intelect si de caracter sunt considerate a fi periculoase si deci o vinovatie cu care nu se colaboreaza si care se pedepseste daca iese din anonimat. Exact invers, tipul de Roman agreat de toate puterile straine care au tutelat si care au controlat Romania: fara convingeri politice, caldicel in comportament si adaptabil in colaborari cameleon in politica, tranzactionist in afaceri oportunist in relatii si, intotdeauna, de partea Puterii si cu folosinta pentru Putere." (Serban Milcoveanu)**

De la: Copil_Pribeag, la data 2010-02-19 14:05:26"M-au numit nebun in 1896 cand am anuntat descoperirea razelor cosmice. Adeseori si-au batut joc de mine si apoi, peste ani, au vazut ca aveam dreptate.
Acum presupun ca istoria se va repeta cand afirm ca am descoperit o sursa de energie pana acum necunoscuta, o energie fara limite, care poate fi canalizata."
(Nikola Tesla)

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...le-am spus cate ceva din toate acestea strecurate printre com-uri...chiar si despre acel harrp,...numai ca n-au prea interesat, sau ...

De la: Copil_Pribeag, la data 2010-02-19 14:05:26"M-au numit nebun in 1896 cand am anuntat descoperirea razelor cosmice. Adeseori si-au batut joc de mine si apoi, peste ani, au vazut ca aveam dreptate.
Acum presupun ca istoria se va repeta cand afirm ca am descoperit o sursa de energie pana acum necunoscuta, o energie fara limite, care poate fi canalizata."
(Nikola Tesla)

restulstirilor.blogspot.com/2009/06/cititi-nikola-tesla.html[/qu... energie?

Cei ce le interzic altora accesul la anumite aspecte ale vietii.....sint satui de acel aspect.

De la: mytcor, la data 2010-02-19 15:43:54

De la: Copil_Pribeag, la data 2010-02-19 14:05:26"M-au numit nebun in 1896 cand am anuntat descoperirea razelor cosmice. Adeseori si-au batut joc de mine si apoi, peste ani, au vazut ca aveam dreptate.
Acum presupun ca istoria se va repeta cand afirm ca am descoperit o sursa de energie pana acum necunoscuta, o energie fara limite, care poate fi canalizata."
(Nikola Tesla)

restulstirilor.blogspot.com/2009/06/cititi-nikola-tesla.html[/quote]


...le-am spus cate ceva din toate acestea strecurate printre com-uri...chiar si despre acel harrp,...numai ca n-au prea interesat, sau ...

Pe tine, eu personal nu te mai bag in seama, la modul cum contrazici. Parca ai fi masina de tocat, asa cointrazici.

Cei ce le interzic altora accesul la anumite aspecte ale vietii.....sint satui de acel aspect.

De la: nastasemihail, la data 2010-02-19 15:47:06

De la: mytcor, la data 2010-02-19 15:43:54

De la: Copil_Pribeag, la data 2010-02-19 14:05:26"M-au numit nebun in 1896 cand am anuntat descoperirea razelor cosmice. Adeseori si-au batut joc de mine si apoi, peste ani, au vazut ca aveam dreptate.
Acum presupun ca istoria se va repeta cand afirm ca am descoperit o sursa de energie pana acum necunoscuta, o energie fara limite, care poate fi canalizata."
(Nikola Tesla)

restulstirilor.blogspot.com/2009/06/cititi-nikola-tesla.html[/quote]


...le-am spus cate ceva din toate acestea strecurate printre com-uri...chiar si despre acel harrp,...numai ca n-au prea interesat, sau ...

Pe tine, eu personal nu te mai bag in seama, la modul cum contrazici. Parca ai fi masina de tocat, asa cointrazici.

mihai, chiar tie ti-am spus despre harrp !...

si te contrazic pana ai sa-äi bagi mintile-n cap si n-ai sa mai umblii dupa cai verzi pe pereti !

Nu va certati!
"Spesso, la verità più profonda, si trova grazie ad una piccola storia" :)

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*Per la Scienza il Calabrone non potrebbe volare perché il suo corpo e troppo grande rispetto alle ali. Il Calabrone questo non lo sa, e vola !* *Toti oamenii te aud cand vorbesti; prietenii insa inteleg ce spui, iar cei mai buni prieteni sunt cei care pricep si ceea ce n-ai spus in cuvinte.* *Spesso, la verità più profonda, si trova grazie ad una piccola storia* *Vulturul poate zbura mai jos decat gainile, dar gainile nu se vor putea ridica niciodata pana la nori* *"Ca urmare a asezarii geografice, a resurselor naturale si, mai ales a celei mai mici densitati (populationale) din Europa, Romania n-a fost niciodata un stat absolut independent. Tipul de Roman repudiat de toate puterile tutelare este nationalistul cu convingeri imposibil de corupt si patriotul refractar la operatii transactionale. Aceste insusiri de intelect si de caracter sunt considerate a fi periculoase si deci o vinovatie cu care nu se colaboreaza si care se pedepseste daca iese din anonimat. Exact invers, tipul de Roman agreat de toate puterile straine care au tutelat si care au controlat Romania: fara convingeri politice, caldicel in comportament si adaptabil in colaborari cameleon in politica, tranzactionist in afaceri oportunist in relatii si, intotdeauna, de partea Puterii si cu folosinta pentru Putere." (Serban Milcoveanu)**