Nikola Tesla

[Nepenthe]

There's a photo on Wikipedia's Tesla page that might have something to do with this:

Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It looks like it's three lights, not 200, and assuming that those cables in the background have something to do with the experiment, then the power was probably transmitted (inducted?) over a couple hundred feet at most.

That would probably be doable with the technology Tesla had access to. Horribly inefficient, but doable.

Cool!
I assume the pic is connected to Tesla's paper The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires which is about, well, the transmission of electrical energy without wires.

It's written in his usual hyperbolic style where everything he does is the "first decisive experimental evidence of a truth of overwhelming importance for the advancement of humanity."

 

[Dezzie]

I actually have another question in regard to Scientists... this ia a genuine question...

Why is it when you look up the most well-known Scientists, you never see any that are more recent? What are some of the best scientist of today?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I actually have another question in regard to Scientists... this ia a genuine question...

Why is it when you look up the most well-known Scientists, you never see any that are more recent? What are some of the best scientist of today?

Define "more recent".

Stephen Hawking's alive, so I think he'd count.

Or Watson and Crick, the discoverers of the structure of DNA. James Watson is still alive and Francis Crick only died in 2004, so I'd say he counts as well.

 

[Willamena]

I actually have another question in regard to Scientists... this ia a genuine question...

Why is it when you look up the most well-known Scientists, you never see any that are more recent? What are some of the best scientist of today?

Now, that could be due to "the Information Age." Back in the day when someone came up with a spectacular advancement and published, it was a special thing. Today, it gets drowned out in all the zillion of spectacular things that get published every minute. Spectacular is no longer very ...spectacular.

 

[England my lionheart]

i love Tesla. an amazing guy. i am afraid his work was stolen. i think his stolen reputation is related to politics. he should have been in the place of Einstein has today. he is the one who trully earned it

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I agree,Genius

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

i love Tesla. an amazing guy. i am afraid his work was stolen. i think his stolen reputation is related to politics. he should have been in the place of Einstein has today. he is the one who trully earned it

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I agree,Genius

I think he had some interesting ideas, but I'd put him more on the level of Marconi. Definitely not as high as, say, Michael Faraday.

 

[England my lionheart]

I think he had some interesting ideas, but I'd put him more on the level of Marconi. Definitely not as high as, say, Michael Faraday.

I think Faraday was great but not as great as Tesla who i also i regard higher than Marconi or Edison:cover: i also think Tesla was poorly treated and cheated,JMO though

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I think Faraday was great but not as great as Tesla who i also i regard higher than Marconi or Edison:cover:

Why? What big things did Tesla really do?

I realize that he came up with the first AC motor, but other people were working in parallel on this and came up with their own independent designs soon after.

i also think Tesla was poorly treated and cheated,JMO though

I agree with that as well - it seems that Edison made things difficult for Tesla.

Personally, I think of Edison more as an engineer or a marketer than a scientist. He didn't come up with many completely original ideas, but he was good at identifying good ideas when he saw them, tweaking them a bit to make them work better, and selling them.

 

[Dirty Penguin]

Cool!
I assume the pic is connected to Tesla's paper The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires which is about, well, the transmission of electrical energy without wires.

It's written in his usual hyperbolic style where everything he does is the "first decisive experimental evidence of a truth of overwhelming importance for the advancement of humanity."

Right. Tesla was the man. We now have wireless charging mats for certain electronics but check this out....and it's all due to Tesla's vision.

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YouTube - Eric Giler demonstrates wireless electricity at TEDGlobal 2009

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Right. Tesla was the man. We now have wireless charging mats for certain electronics but check this out....and it's all due to Tesla's vision.

You can credit the physics behind a charging mat to Faraday, mainly.

Tesla did some interesting stuff with transformers, but he wasn't the first person to build one.

 

[England my lionheart]

Why? What big things did Tesla really do?

I realize that he came up with the first AC motor, but other people were working in parallel on this and came up with their own independent designs soon after.

Of course many Scientists are/were Jockeys of someone elses ideas,i do believe though that if Tesla had a better business acumen he would have outshone many of the Scientists of the time.

I agree with that as well - it seems that Edison made things difficult for Tesla.

Personally, I think of Edison more as an engineer or a marketer than a scientist. He didn't come up with many completely original ideas, but he was good at identifying good ideas when he saw them, tweaking them a bit to make them work better, and selling them.

I agree with this,as for Tesla,to me when i was a Kid he epitamised the mad genius Scientist,i think that he was badly ripped off and i consider him to be the Father of Radio.

 

[Numinous]

I actually have another question in regard to Scientists... this ia a genuine question...

Why is it when you look up the most well-known Scientists, you never see any that are more recent? What are some of the best scientist of today?

The guy that worked on the Genome Project. Can't think of his name now, but I am sure he will be regarded as a prominent scientist someday...

 

[Dezzie]

Define "more recent".

Stephen Hawking's alive, so I think he'd count.

Or Watson and Crick, the discoverers of the structure of DNA. James Watson is still alive and Francis Crick only died in 2004, so I'd say he counts as well.

That's very true... they just never list any of them in the "Top Ten" Scientists list. By more recent I mean, the young Scientists of today. The recent ones of my generation I guess... lol

 

[Dezzie]

This is kind of cool... this gives a "list" of Tesla's accomplishments...

Nicola Tesla

Here's the Wiki page on the list of his Patents:

List of Tesla patents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Maybe he would have been taken a little more seriously if he didn't have a chick's name.

 

[Numinous]

Maybe he would have been taken a little more seriously if he didn't have a chick's name.

Like George Bush maybe?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

That's very true... they just never list any of them in the "Top Ten" Scientists list.

I disagree. Hawking especially gets listed in all sorts of "top ten"-type lists.

By more recent I mean, the young Scientists of today. The recent ones of my generation I guess... lol

Your profile lists your age at 22. That's barely old enough to get a Bachelor's degree.

Still, maybe this is what you're looking for:

20 Best Brains Under 40 | Alternative Energy | DISCOVER Magazine