Nikola Tesla, Scientific Genius
I feel that Elon Musk’s choice of “Tesla” as the name of his
electric car company and electrically powered cars serve as some vindication for
Nicola Tesla, who invented much of the technology that we use in modern times,
and who died penniless at age 86, in his hotel room, 3327 in the New Yorker
hotel in 1943.
Nikola Tesla was one of the most enigmatic characters in
American science and popularity/notoriety.
It’s sad that his business acumen did not match his scientific
inventiveness.
He had eidetic memory, and spoke eight languages. He invented radio, but Marconi stole it. The invented alternating current, and
effectively gave the patents away to George Westinghouse. He was pioneer in x-ray technology, remote
control, power transmission, and foresaw much of our modern world, including
radio, TV and the internet. He died
penniless because he was such a bad businessman, was altruistic and others,
like Edison took advantage of him.
His contributions to science, some of which, like wireless
power transmission, were originally disparaged, are now acknowledged.
The youtube link is 16 minutes long, and it has some
commercial interruption, but it a pretty good thumbnail sketch of Tesla and his
scientific accomplishments. The other
link is about Tesla actually inventing radio, for which Marconi got a Nobel
prize.
https://youtu.be/Ok8JDXSYw1U
https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/tesla-invented-radio-not-marconi#:~:text=Tesla%20was%20very%20good%20at,transmissions%20in%20Germany%20in%201885.
Nicola Tesla bio https://www.biography.com/inventor/nikola-tesla
Ray Gruszecki
February10, 2022
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