killivolt
Well-Known Member
I would be happy with seeing the T-shirt and hat Photo.
Somehow I missed this Thread, I would have enjoyed knowing and getting my shirt
Great! Now all we need is a photo of you wearing them
Hi Matt
BrilliantThe property has been saved. Still lots of work ahead to investigate possible tunnels, rooms under the Kodak building on top of it.
At least that is what I understand from the Oatmeal site.
Regards,
tvtech
Yes tvtech, they are in the very beginning stages, there is much more to come!
Matt
Smart business; inexpensive marketing coupled with a write off.
Hi,
That's great news. I don't think he ever got what he really deserved for what he did. It's about time right?
Tesla has a SI unit of measurement named after him (I don't remember one for Edison) meaning his name is forever etched in the history of physics and everyday use of magnetics. The man rightly has been awarded long before this moment for what he did and I second the 'Happy B-day, Nikola Tesla!'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit)#mediaviewer/File:100RSD_front.jpg
Simply getting a unit of measurement named after him doesn't remotely make up for what he did. Tesla was the person who brought us AC, remote control, radio, and more. He literally invented the modern world, and 95% of it has never heard his name. Whether he has a unit named after him or not, he has not been fully rewarded for all he did in the technical field.
He literally invented the modern world? Sorry but that's a bit much. The guy was a top notch engineer and inventor, moving him to 'god' status only makes a parody of his real achievements that I truly admire.
Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. -
“… Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects, straightening out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible – But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.“
“My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.” — Nikola Tesla
These are only a few of the definite patents Tesla has to his name. I challenge you to find a piece of technology nowadays that doesn't rely on any of these patents.
I'm not raising Tesla to god-like status, but people (apparently you as well) have no idea how important his work was, and still is, to modern technology.
Tesla did many great things in the application of electrical energy to practical devices and methods like poly-phase power but his contribution to the advancement of the fields of electrodynamics and physics in general was about nil because he was wrong or had a primitive understanding about the very nature of the forces he was using. That's not his fault as almost everyone else was wrong at that point in history but he continued to hold obsolete views on the nature of electricity long after most in his field had seen the light and had moved on to the next level of understanding from aether wave theory and classical electrodynamics to Einsteins GR/SR and related theories that have truly transformed the modern world.
I would suggest you are - and are certainly making him out to be FAR more important than he was
As for your list of patents, how many of his patents actually work?, and how many were his original work - much of Tesla's 'inventions' never worked, and never could - yet he seems to inspire admiration way beyond his actual accomplishments.
Not that I'm knocking him in any way, I'm just not holding him up to be 'saint' as you appear to be
He was one just of many inventors from the period, from many different countries - he had a few successes, and many failures - as was normal.
The patents I listed are some of the ones that have been proven to work, albeit sometimes just on a small-scale, such as the wireless electricity transmission. But even just looking at the obvious successes--AC generators and motors, transformers, power transmission, remote control, and radio--Those alone revolutionized the entire world, and most aspects of modern technology are still based on at least one of these.
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