Re: Nikola Tesla stole Hans Coler device
- From: T.L. Davis <tldavis341@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:52:06 -0500
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:26:30 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
<keithnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"T.L. Davis" <tldavis341@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 02:49:59 -0700 (PDT), LIBERATOR
<nogeekluv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3752/hcoler1.htm
This device was said to be Nikola Teslas invention.
I don't think it was, Hans Coler originated it. Nikola Tesla is the
OSS stratagem for delivering stolen Nazi technology to the public of
the USA.
Please...Tesla had no need to steal anything from anyone. OTOH, a LOT
of his inventions were appropriated, aka radio by Marconi.
Both Marconi and Tesla were working on the wireless in the same period.
The difference was that Marconi developed the invention into a workable
system. He was a much more astute business man and knew how to
get investors to back him financially.
The man
died a pauper, his dream of wireless power tranmission is only now
being developed for home use (recent issue of Popular Science).
Not in he way he enisaged it however. The problem with broadcast
power is the inverse square law. The implementations being discussed
use very small distances between transmitter and receiver. Tesla
envisaged towers that would broadcast power to an entire city.
This was so improbable, see inverse square law, that it ruined his
credibility.
This man should have been supported by the government as it did for
Einstein. No other genius in the last century even comes close. He
was a national treasure, and for the most part unappreciated and
uncompensated.
Reality check
Einstein developed his most important theories while resident in
Switzerland.
in the period 1905-1906. He didnt visit the United States until 1921
but he remained a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin
until the rise of Hitler only moving to the USA in December 1932.
But as I recall, he was supported by our government once he did
immigrate. Tesla, OTOH, had to depend on the industrialists, whom, as
we have seen in the beginning of this century, have no allegiance to
anything but greed. Einstein had the luxury to deal with abstractions
and ideas that didn't have to show profitable application in the next
fiscal year.
Tesla was a flawed genius. In the late 1890's he was given considerable
support by George Westinghouse but he ended up falling out with
all his supporters and squandered moost of his money on a failed
lawsuit against Marconi.
Geniuses are rarely gregarious, sociable, or good corporate soldiers.
Nearly all of them are "flawed" in some way, they give up a lot in
other areas of their life. Marconi got the Nobel, at the very least
it should have been shared. Bill Gates ripped off Apple's GUI, and
they sued, too --- should have won.
His public and very ill advised trashing of Einstein's theories made him
look even more out of touch. He famously claimed space time could
not be curved even after experimental data supported Einstein's theory
<Quote>
I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have
no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not,
but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can
only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the
presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that
something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a
view
</Quote>
It's a tough concept to wrap your head around even today, you can
hardly blame him for doubting it way back then. Of what is space
made, that it can be warped in such a way? You are talking about an
aspect of Unified Field, gravity waves, etc., --- things that we still
don't fully understand.
Today, quantum physics is all but taken for granted, yet Einstein
called it "spooky action at a distance".
It's really too bad that these guys couldn't have worked together.
Tesla was overall an inventor, certainly not a physicist. Some of his
greatest leaps forward were intuitive. Sometimes intuition leads us
in a general direction that, unfortunately, we don't have the tools or
knowledge to implement. It was impractical to build airplanes until
light weight engines of sufficient power became available. Tesla
didn't have the deep knowledge of physics or the technology available
to him to implement his visions, but he was a visionary nonetheless.
We need a lot more of these today than we do "astute businessmen".
T.L. Davis
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