But those patents you listed aren't even all credited to Tesla, I would suggest he was applying for patents based on work done elsewhere, or work that had already been patented (such as radio).
As for 'proved to work', that's pretty vague - particularly as you quote the 'wireless power transmission' which has NEVER been proved to work, and never worked in his own experiments. Back in those days, particularly in the USA, they granted patents VERY easily, for loads of things that couldn't possibly work - and 'working' wasn't even a requirement for a patent.
By the time Marconi was working on radio, Tesla had already done work on it and had received several patents for the designs.
Tesla had gotten wireless electricity transmission to work to an extent. If you have ever seen The Prestige, you will probably remember the scene in which Tesla is standing in a field surrounded by lit light bulbs that are placed in the ground. This is based on an actual experiment Tesla conducted in 1899. He lit 200 light bulbs from 26 miles away.
He also conducted several smaller-scale experiments with wireless electricity transmission, and often used them in his demonstrations.
As had many others, before Tesla as well.
Basically it's all down to who gets credited - and it's often not the guys who do the actual work, but their employers, presumably Tesla employed a number of people?.
I see it's suggested now that Tesla 'invented' radio, rather than Marconi - and of course it's long been suggested that Bell didn't invent the telephone, or Baird the TV.
'Facts' change
You mean he claims to
A number of people keep 'demonstrating cars running on water
I'd like to present a slightly different view of Tesla and radio. He was on track with power distribution and electrical devices but he was mainly wrong with radio which is why his research in the field was a dead end.
https://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm
That's an interesting point of view, nsaspook--one that I had not seen before. But whether Tesla intended to or not, he did invent the basis of radio today with his tuned AC circuits and Tesla coils. His research was by no means a dead end--it was and is still used in various types of radios that broadcast and receive audio signals. That is an undeniable fact.
The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission may be kept up for a while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable aberrations of the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history.
It must take a lot to get your friggin' NAME tacked to a SCIENTIFIC UNIT OF MEASURE. They dont do that for just anyone, only a handful of people got that kind of historical credit. There must be a reason for it.
Also, i think it's a thumbs up or thumbs down kind of issue. For example Einstein was a theoretical physicist while Tesla was more of an applications engineer. Thumbs up for both of them
You are repeating yourself, nsaspook, and my last response applies to your latest post as well--whether Tesla intended to or not, he still invented the apparatus used to transmit and receive radio signals.
Yes, I repeated myself to drive home the point because I'm really tired of Tesla getting credit for inventing radio, having anything to do with radio, winning Marconi's patents on the invention of radio or even having the slightest notion of the physics of radio. The man was the master of conduction/induction and his honors in coupled magnetics are justified but he didn't invented the apparatus for transmitting radio any more than the man who invented the transformer did and there's little evidence he invented anything useful for future radio audio reception.
Besides, we've gone off topic of this thread--this thread is about the Tesla Science Center and Museum, not about what Tesla did or didn't do.
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