The 10 inventions of Nikola Tesla that changed the world
Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after his death. Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?
We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day — namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius. He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other “captains of industry.” Upon Tesla’s death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, and to this day none of this research has been made public.
Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla’s integrity — he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.
But, let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world. For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.
1. Alternating Current – This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago. A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed. The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator). Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general “dangers” of electric current to instill fear in Tesla’s alternative: Alternating Current. As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations. Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla’s attempt to offer safety at a lower cost. Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light. This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla’s inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.
2. Light – Of course he didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed. Tesla developed and used florescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. At the World’s Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs. However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial. The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter. All that is needed on the other end is the receiver — much like a radio.
3. X-rays – Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role. X-rays, like so many of Tesla’s contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.
4. Radio – Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day. However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi. Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association. In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi’s financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.
5. Remote Control – This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No.613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898. Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat’s propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.
6. Electric Motor – Tesla’s invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a carbrandishing his name. While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla’s invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil. However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and compressors.
7. Robotics – Tesla’s overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses. He stated: “I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli.” Thus, the concept of the robot was born. However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations — namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce. His visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems are detailed in a must-read entry in the Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2006 (PDF).
8. Laser – Tesla’s invention of the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man. Lasers have transformed surgical applications in an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much of our current digital media. However, with this leap in innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction. From Reagan’s “Star Wars” laser defense system to today’s Orwellian “non-lethal” weapons’ arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy “death rays,” there is great potential for development in both directions.
9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy – These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite — what good is energy if it can’t be metered and controlled? Free? Never. J.P. Morgan backed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text. This represented the world’s first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them. Essentially, the 0′s and 1′s of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed. Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge. But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?
Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased. A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer. If you feel that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion, instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed institutions of higher education, join the world’s call to tell power brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and learn about what our universe really has to offer.
The release of Nikola Tesla’s technical and scientific research — specifically his research into harnessing electricity from the ionosphere at a facility called Wardenclyffe — is a necessary step toward true freedom of information. Please add your voice by sharing this information with as many people as possible.
For additional information about the demand for release, or to use as a template to form your own demand, please visit:http://releaseteslasresearch.weebly.com/
As they state:
Tell your friends, bring it up and discuss it at your next general assembly, do whatever you can to get the word out, organize locally to make a stand for the release of Nikola Tesla’s research…. America is tired of corrupt corporate greed, supported by The American government, holding us back in a stagnant society in the name of profit . . . The Energy Crisis is a lie.
As an aside: there are some who have pointed out that Tesla’s experimentation with the ionosphere very well could have caused the massive explosion over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, which leveled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers, and may even have led to the much maligned HAARP technology. I submit that we would do well to remember that technology is never the true enemy; it is the misuse of technology that can enslave rather than free mankind from its animal-level survivalism.
Please view the video below, which does an excellent job at personalizing this largely forgotten human being, as well as show the reasons why to this day he is not a household name.
And here is a video that offers an essential alternative view of ancient Egypt and other cultures that employed pyramidal structures, which suggests the staggering outer limits of what Tesla was attempting to harness and offer to humanity:
Sources :
31 Responses to The 10 inventions of Nikola Tesla that changed the world
Trending Articles
Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease
30 abandoned places that look truly beautiful
Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized
Breaking News: China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn
List of Top 10 Documentaries - Watch Online For FreeInteresting Websites
Great article….more examples of how OUR monetary system stifles technological development in the name of maintaining some giant corporations profit stream.
Can’t see the link to the like page..
hey Stefan I think it is this link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Energy-The-Worlds-Call-to-Release-Nikola-Teslas-Scientific-Research/183702428382679
Isn’t The Tesla coil also the basis for the coils in cars that powered spark plugs in all the decades before electronic ignitions? (I’m sure you could find a more dramatic way to say that!)
Amazing…it’s so sad how all this is pretty much “owned” by a few corporations now.
Let’s face it… our entire lives are based on lies. Everything from healthcare to the food we eat and how we live are governed by those who seek to cover up the truth. This is a good example of that!
For all those looking to find out more about Tesla’s free energy, I highly recommend reading the compilation of works by a Dr. Hans Nieper. I found a book published in 1985 discussing Tesla’s work (among the multitude of scientists that have been confirming over and over the physics behind WHY it works). Here is a link posted to the book.
Free energy is not a hoax. Educate yourself.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8788976/Nieper-Conversion-of-Gravity-Field-Energy-Revolution-in-Technology-Medicine-and-Society-1985
“…the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man…”
What i read about him is not really that… I remember because myself a notorious peace lover, it moved me, he did not want to give his secret of the ray, to one country, rather every country. It can surrounding the borders, like a curtain. So everybody can defend themself. He loved peace so much, he did not want one to be able attack the other using his invention.
There is movie also about his life, I liked it, i bet there is more.
What is make him more personal to me is my childhood in Hungary:
My father was a chemistry physics teacher. Was born in 1897!!! Because i was the 5th child, can be, i am still here.
He was also in the 1st world war! a soldier with the radio, in the Italian front.
He had all kind of electric stuff, filled up our apartment, it was like a lab…long story…coupled with ocd….
He made a coil to gradually light up the Christmas tree no one had that time.
Once he touched the low amp high voltage something and kissed us to electrocute us…for joke, just a little bad…really he knew it was not danger…but my Mom was very mad for it.
And old books, magazines all over, Nation Geographic from the beginning and real time of Tesla!!! I remember i was looking the picture with open mouth he was in a kind of cage and the lighting went through on him. All was so mysterious! Tesla was definitely there.
And also he lived the real time when was written the Orwell book, my father quoted : “Szoma ha mondom segit a gondon egy kobcenti helyre biccenti”….still echoing in my ear. Of course we kids did not have a “pale clue” (tell the truth we said in Hungary a “pale fart”) what’s that mean. The “szoma” was what they sprayed on the slaves in the falansters – factory – when people started to rebel, to calm them down.
I never ever thought i will be there where it is becoming true…
My broken English hopefully forgivable
Wow! I am so impressed that you met him when you were a child and remember him lighting up your Christmas tree (and himself). You were so lucky and I, too, am excited that finally the time has come for his amazing work to be known. We have been living in a dark age.
PEACELOVING TESLA FAN, thank you for your stories. I appreciate you sharing them.
what about Marie Curie? She did also do a lot of research in x-ray and she also received a nobel price… in chemistry I think. She can’t be ignored when someone talks about x-ray research.
Actually, it’s my first time to learn about Nikola Tesla and his inventions which were being credited to other scientists like Edison and Marconi. What about Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone?
Pingback: The 10 Inventions of Nickola Tesla That Changed The World | Truth Is Scary
Pingback: The 10 Inventions of Nickola Tesla That Changed The World | The Illuminati
There is a man named Patrick Flanagan who is said to be the reincarnation of Nikola Tesla
Amazing file with everything from imformative videos to full ebooks of tesla’s work. Want to build your own tesla coil well heres your chance
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2392738/
Because of money and power, we live in a world of endless limitations to our industrial, intellectual and social development. This is just an example of what is there laying in someones hands, while we pay enormous amounts of money for something that is both inefficient and limited to progress.
wow, i wish we could know all he knew…someday…
Why, the world is dealing with this “jealousy” thing, just because one(Nikola tesla) is more innovative than other, this doesn’t mean that he should try to make him unnoticed with his(edison’s) not so economical findings. I think there may be many such unknown people who deserves actual credit, but due to such reasons they might remain in dark(unknown).
Nikola Tesla was a truly scientist and by me…the greatest of ALL…he gaved the best invention to the world…and a lot of them we dont know yet because he was a scientist before his time…he should born in THIS CENTURY…he is over and all mighty Einstein who was by my thoughts a good scientist but more of media campaign against Soviets- he was some kind of science celebriti. Tesla was hidden in labs working.
I have done a LOT of reading into the works and inventions of Nikola Tesla, and it has only infuriated me to know that such a beneficent man died broke and alone because of greedy corporate and governmental bodies. If we had had the limitless free energy back in Tesla’s time, who KNOWS how far our society would have come by now! The advent of the laser, robotics, remote control, and wireless technology… in THAT day and age?! Who knows how far along our technological prowess would be as a species!? For that matter, imagine how far along our SPACE PROGRAMS would be!? I’d love to know where to get more info on this Occupy Energy idea. I feel it’s about time that humanity stepped up to the plate and demanded that Tesla’s bold and beneficial ideas be looked into for modern application; most ESPECIALLY ones dealing with free energy! We need a reliable and renewable source!
he harnessed the true power of the pyramids …
Determined people must not succumb to corporate domination. Today we also have the hydrogen technology (splitting the water molecule into H and O, burn them to get energy and the waste product is water again) which is a real sustainable energy source unlike the fossil fuel/oil. But oil companies are trying to suppress/hide this technology. But we must not give up. Because the day will come when fossil fuel supply will be no more. We must be ready with other energy sources….that are environment friendly and sustainable. Fossil fuel is bad for the environment and not sustainable.
Earth’s magnet (ground) is charged up by the sun. The sun being the high AC power, charging up earth, the low DC power. Earth’s gravity, and the density of earth, allows an ant to walk on earth’s ground without floating away, up into the heavens. At the same time something as heavy as an elephant can walk on that same ground without sinking into earth two or three feet each step. Full moon at the beach brings high tide also, because of the north and south pole. Nikola Tesla used earth’s ground (around 7.8 hertz), and turned it into 130,000 high AC volts; a giant Tesla CoIL. He wanted to offer free electricity to everyone instead of paying to use the electric company’s power. He has the patent on the electric car as well as the space vehicle.The oil companies and the government must have felt threatened by his free energy discoveries. There were also other motives of why Hoover went to visit him on that January 7th of 1943.
The History Channel has a good show on how JP Morgan set out to ruin Westinghouse and Tesla because he had bet so heavily on the inferior Edison. It’s a shame we were not taught about Tesla in school but we know NOW!
I had been considered a ‘New Age Wiggnut’ for decades every time I mentioned Nikola Tesla, or spoke of his ‘free energy’ referred to as ‘Scalar Energy’ in those days. Obviously it was not considered as an alternative to fossil fuels since the powers that be couldn’t figure out to make mega-$$$ on something that costs nothing to produce & can be generated by inexpensive towers, or even by each home on this planet with a small inexpensive diapole, like a battery.
Another application of this Universal Energy used by a French Doctor was also squashed once he proved you could by applying this energy like a laser at diseased cells & healing them by taking them back (through the timelessness within the Universe) to a ‘time’ when they were healthy. Result: treatment cured over 97% of illnesses, but oh, we can’t have that, can we?
So I am hugely excited on seeing a resurgence of interest in Tesla, at a time when our environment needs saving.
If the technology is simple, the science robust and the power limitless, why aren’t people IDYing themselves off the grid and showing their neighbours?
The PC revolution started in garages. PCs threatened corporate vested interests in bed with government. Big blue etc chose to adapt.
Why is ‘free energy’ so different?
What is missing from this story?
Anyone can discuss about cold fusion?
My book, Nikola Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity, will be coming out in the spring. It’s time to bring his name back to the general public.
I stopped reading this article when it says “it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era”. It should say to the wrold, no only fucking north america!
loved this. great education to share w my kids too. fyi, the first video on tesla – it’s not letting us play it, says ‘this video is private.’