The 10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The WorldBy Nicholas West I would also point you to Rand Cliffords 3-part series: Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers! which has a wealth of different information than what you will read below. Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate more than 70 years after his death. 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 Nikola Teslas death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, some of which has been released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. (Ive embedded the first 250 pages below and have added a link to the .pdf of the final pages, 290 in total). Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Teslas 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, lets 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. This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 Worlds 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 Nikola Teslas alternative: Alternating Current. As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations. Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Teslas 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 Teslas inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Teslas system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era. Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Nikola 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 Teslas 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. Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day. However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconis 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 Marconis 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 Nikola Tesla. 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 boats 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. Nikola Teslas invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name. While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Teslas 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. Nikola Teslas 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, Nikola 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). Nikola Teslas 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 Reagans Star Wars laser defense system to todays Orwellian non-lethal weapons arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy death rays, there is great potential for development in both directions. These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite what good is energy if it cant be metered and controlled? Free? Never. J.P. Morgan backed Nikola 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 worlds 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 0s and 1s 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? Nikola 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 worlds 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 Teslas 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 Teslas 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 Nikola Teslas 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. Here is an entertaining and well-done animated video that summarizes Teslas life and inventions based on the book: Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century by Sean Patrick. Related selfnews Post Articles: Here is the link to the .pdf of the final 40 pages: Nicholas West writes for selfnewsPost.com. This article may be freely republished in part or in full with author attribution and source link. test comment test corrupt Any chance of a decent riposte? Or just more No,No. Its far easier to fool a man than convince him hes been fooled You destroy your thesis by suggesting that Tunguska was man made. That movie is only a glimpse of him What we expect is much more. Tesla didnt invent the laser. Not even close. I agree, if Tesla wouldnt have done anything, we would have had some pretty primitive tehnologies now.They actually barely evolved since his death, we mostly have the same stuff, just little more tweaked And without a new form of energy, generator and energy distribution we are screwed..not to mention many other problems, to reply to that comment , it doesnt matter how technology is valued by others, but its true use and benefit does matter.Its like measuring height , if you have 1,90 meters it doesnt mean that if a guy prefers to think that you in fact have 1,2 meters is true.Saying The reason is because the world is diverse is exactly like saying too many people and to many different heights, therefore you cannot say who is the tallest and the smallest ..oh really ? Spacious comment. You are ASSuMing that no one else would have thought it up. The level of thought on this site is typical for the publicly educated, thats to the 8th grade. You never hear about what he did, just some meaningless details and pathetic little physics problems instead of hearing about his great mind, I actually learned hundreds of times more relevant and usefull stuff from the net. And here we have Mr Naive. Ill bet you think Wikipedia is an accredited source. This list doesnt seem right. The Rothchilds controlled the banks and the oil and the Rockerfellers controlled most media and publishing outlets. They basically tried to erase him from history. They wouldnt print books about Teslas free energy ideas. Bad for business. The patenting system is in place to stop inventions that that would be bad for business.Like free energy. good point. Humans are not allowed to have free energy because we were made to be slave workers. They keep us down and have twice tried to wipe out humanity entirely and theyre about to do it again. Tell us how you really feel That is one impressive cocktail of crazy. True, True Nikola Tesla one of the greatest minds of the last 200 years I dont believe Tesla or Einstein for that matter were geniuses or anything like that. I think people like using words like that to compensate for their own mediocrity. I simply believe he had a passion (for lack of a better word) for his work and he was an extremely hard worker just my two cents Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. If everybody agreed with you, then wed all be wrong. So If you want respect then you should consider giving it! Do you get it Garrett Gardener? To this author to generate electricity you need to have varying fields. The earths is stable. Next the earths field is barely strong enough to move a compass needle.If you could somehow change the laws of physics the industrial base needed to make free energy would be the size of a continent. WRONG, evolution is a THEORY. See thats were the ignorance of science comes in. Until its proven its a theory. WRONG, a scientific theory already needs to be supported by the evidence. And no, they dont get proven. You should work on your ignorance towards science. Where did you go to school or did you? A scientific theory becomes a law when its proven. Pay attention. BTW evidence can be wrong and disproven by further observation. Just like a faster then light results in Italy 2 years ago. You really need a few more years in school. Public education strikes again. Wrong again. Proof doesnt exist in science, so please get your facts straight. Theories never become laws, theyre two different concepts. Have you ever heard of artistic license?? It seems more people in this site get there education from dubious sources. Taking a movie, even a documentary, as a source of information is foolish. Really, Id add a third and fourth. The ignorant and the clueless. And theses a lot of those third and fourth ones on this site Why learn English when the dominant is Chinese People are NOT equal, people have lost the feeling for true value. WOW where did you go to school?? Just what are laws in science?? WOW Im amazed you cant get that concept. There are theories and then there are laws. Try a bit of research. There are four major concepts in science: facts, hypotheses, laws, and theories, Were you home schooled? Well you just got schooled again, champ. 1. A hypothesis is an untested idea or opinion. A hypothesis can become a theory but a theory can not become law. This is a more straight forward explanation of what @@disqus_W7PZ8SbdAw:disqus wrote and it is factual. I love science so I decided to join your older conversation. Hope you dont mind. Wireless power was Teslas white whale, and likewise his undoing. It only marginally worked, and the efficiency was terrible. He developed many great technologies, but free power was not one of them. Not even Tesla could beat the laws of thermodynamics, an over-unity device (producing more energy than it consumes) or perpetual motion device is physically impossible, because the natural laws are inviolate, even for Tesla. There have been probably as many fictitious secret inventions of Tesla as ones he actually invented. If there were actually such an over-unity device in existence, it is the secret too big to keep. There is no government/oil company conspiracy, no people disappeared to keep it hidden, nothing but provably false urban legends. Every person who has claimed an over-unity device has been shown to be a fraud, without exception. Anyone with a modicum of engineering expertise can take them apart with ease. People who believe these devices actually exist, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, are either technically ignorant, or deliberately stupid. the one invention that Tesla did was free energy but the evil bstrds wont let us puny human slaves have that or antigravity which they recovered at Roswell. We are the Home of Natural Plants like Cannabis Oil , Medical Marijuana Strains , Edibles , Seeds , wax and hash . They are all top quality Grade A with High THC and also we have them in stock . Place your order directly from our website and have it ship the same day . Visit http://www.saintmaryhouse . com or contact us at 512 640 9206 lol We are the Home of Natural Plants like Cannabis Oil , Medical Marijuana Strains , Edibles , Seeds , wax and hash . They are all top quality Grade A with High THC and also we have them in stock . Place your order directly from our website and have it ship the same day . Visit http://www.saintmaryhouse . com or contact us at 512 640 9206 ;.;/.; He is Serbian,they also never recieved credits for anything. Why bring in Islam for nothing but projecting your poison inside out? Dear sir, a Muslim greets another with peace, Islam means surrender to God and God invites to the Abode of Peace. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is welcome by the British philosopher George Bernard Shaw as the dictator of the whole world who would give us peace and happiness. The American scholar Michael H Hart ranks Prophet Muhammad as the greatest single figure in human history. French intellectual Lamertine of the 18th century writes about him: Of all the standards by which human greatness can be measured, we may ask, is there any man greater than he? Christianity,,Judaism, Islam are really just forms of Anti+-Hellenism Yes, Mohammad was the greatest pedophile, warlord and barbarian of all time. I think these would be much better ways to portray your false prophet. Very Cool/interesting Well, what I get sick of is the statement Apple has changed the world. No it hasnt. Tesla is a good example of somebody who has; and MIT MEDIA LAB in Cambridge, Mass. is another. I thought Faraday invented the electric motor, way before Tesla. As I recall it was one of his first discoveries. This is not a matter of what one prefers but what has advance society. If Teslas not only free but clean energy production we would have a clean planet and would not struggle with global warming and the devastating effects of pollution. You must realize just how much damage this cause by a handful of greedy people like Morgan. The same families today pretend that noting can be done when this is all built on lies. Imagine the absurdity that we are now paying taxes to clean up a mess that we could have so easily prevented. The best iis that they knew the consequences in the 50ties and did nothing. The ignorance of the public who live in a make believe world is unbelievable. Why do people keep on excusing such simple facts? Keshe is another great Scientist alive today. His work is suspected of the USS Donald Cook Nikola Telsa one of the best Christian inventors of our time! Faraday established the connection between magnetism and electric current using DC batteries. Tesla came up with an AC motor much later on, as you note. This post is complete and utter nonsense. Tesla was, without a doubt, a great inventor and scientist, but about half the stuff his internet fan following (including the author of this article) attributes to him is nonsense. Tesla did NOT invent AC (he merely developed a motor running on it decades later), he did NOT invent fluorescent bulbs (Geissler did), and he did NOT invent or discover X-rays (they were observed earlier, Helmholtz postulated them theoretically, and Rntgen finally confirmed them experimentally). Furthermore, there is NO evidence Tesla ever invented some sort of laser of death ray, and his idea of power transfer through air would not have and does not work, as attested by modern scientists. The idea that the universe as a frequency is completely moronic and runs contrary to modern science, and claiming that Tesla may have had something to do with the Tunguska Event is really a deep, deep dive into conspiracy theory territory Good grief. This entire blog is full of nothing but lies and fantasy. Teslas only invention was the AC motor. Thats it! Everything else is an internet fantasy. 