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Nikola Tesla was light years ahead of his contemporaries, which includes all the big names.
July 10th, his birthday, even became Nikola Tesla Day.
However, only a handful of states recognized it.
But then that was the story of his life.
In 1943, it took a Supreme Court decision to give him credit for inventing the radio, yet Marconi is in all the textbooks.
Nobody connects him with the fluorescent bulb, neon lights, the vacuum tube amp, radar and the microscope either.
Yet he held patents, and was instrumental in the development of each.
Tesla Motors honored him with their name and now their electric car is having problems.
Just his luck.
Now, this thing with Edison.
Young Nikola arrived from Yugoslavia, in 1884, with (the story goes) six cents in his pocket, the ability to speak six languages and a genius for electricity.
Thomas Edison, then in his late 30s, saw his potential immediately. The great man had just invented the light bulb but needed a system to distribute electricity to houses.
Edison’s DC (direct current system) had many bugs in it. He looked at Tesla to fix it.
Well, Tesla fixed it too good to suit Edison. His AC (alternating system) was capable of traveling long distances and cities use it around the world today.
Edison spent the rest of his life discrediting Tesla claiming AC was more dangerous than DC.
(Although Tesla's electric chair experiment disproved it.)
Then there was Tesla's huge wireless tower that was designed to link the world’s telephone, telegraph and transmit pictures, stock reports and weather information.
When his backer J.P. Morgan found out all of this would be free to customers, he pulled the “plug” on it.
Of course, Tesla didn’t help his cause by being eccentric. Okay, mad.
He even got a street corner named after him, “Nikola Tesla Corner,” on 40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, where he used to feed his beloved pigeons.
But I’m sure he would have much preferred 33rd and 3rd.
Since he was obsessed with doing things in threes.
Tesla was also revolted by jewelry. Obsessed with hygiene, along with his pigeon mania.
Later in life, Edison said that his biggest mistake was trying to develop direct current, instead of the vastly superior alternating current system that Tesla had put within his reach.
When Edison died, The New York Times covered Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from you know who:
“He lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened…”
And then he got personal.
Tesla lived the last ten years of his life in a two-room suite on the 33rd floor of the New Yorker Hotel and died in room 3327.
I can only hope we're listening to our mad geniuses today. We can use all we can find.
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SHOCKING!!! This is a SHOCKING topic!!! By all the Gods in Asgard, Mr. Peterman, you do us a great service.
And with that, I'm off to see if the Calvados really is gone (my fault) and if maybe there's another bottle in there somewhere (my fault again).
An electrifying topic,should spark interest,without too much resistance...leaves me wired
Tesla rocks-sometimes crazy is good...
The only good things in this world have been accomplished by the certifiable nutters among us. I aspire to be numbered among them by the time they're carving my name into stone.
Anyone remember Tom Swift and his Electric YoYo ??? or Tom Swift and his Bungee Powered Elevator ??? Or Tom Swift and his Sun Powered Rickshaw ??? No ??? Then you probably don't remember , Poindexter or or Tom Terrific either ....... Pity ...
Tesla did some really kool stuff ... He actually invented some fields of Scientific study and refined the focus upon the Laws of Thermodynamics, all with data and Truths he stumbled upon while trying to perfect his Generator/Tesla Coil ....... Like Edison who invented the Light Bulb, and Don Ameche who invented the Telephone ... Tesla had that insatiable thirst for knowledge, and no other thing could satisfy it ... He was nearly constantly at it ....... I suppose Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are representatives of that ilk today ....... What ever could possibly be next ??? Time Travel, perhaps ??? Transteleportation ??? Studebakers ???
batteries that recharge in the sunlight. A good 5cent cigar, and beer bushes. And maybe a Cubs Win?
Bloody Hell, Jalopkin! You had me spraying Calvados out the nose.
Not "Don Ameche", a lovely actor of whom I'm extraordinarily fond... MEUCCI invented the phone. Meucci.
You're frikkin' killing me here. I was having flashbacks to The Three Musketeers (1939). Ahh, the singing musketeer! I loved Ameche. Still do.
And.....Charro coocchy cooochy
I knew there was a certain unplumbed depth to your character, RoadYacht. Well done to you, being a Cubs fan. Today was an enjoyable day for me, listening to a ball game on the shortwave while I varnished the only boat I own - a little nine foot dinghy. When life gives you a dinghy, I say VARNISH IT. The only boat I've got may as well be shiny.
But I digress. The Cubs are worthy. Sterling choice, Roady.
Mr.ISLES: Sorry about that ... about fifty years ago I saw a Picture on the Late Show, wherein Don Ameche played the part of A.G. Bell (Eddie Griffin sez he knew Bell was a Doper cuz his middle name was, Graham) and Don was trying to devise a machine of some sort to overcome Loretta Young's deafness ... and it has been a running Gag ever since about Ameche inventing the Telephone ... it is also a great way to find out how old your Audience is ... (I figure Loretta lost her hearing cuz of all that howling done by the winds and Dogs up in the Yukon, while she was up there making both Pictures and Babies with Clark Gable ) I am aware that Meucci had developed what would pass for a Telephone about twenty years before Bell got the idea ... but that Meucci couldn't get it patented thru the Italian Patent Office ... Prolly cuz it didn't have hands ... How's an Italian gonna talk without hands ??? For his affrontery, Meucci was banished to Staten Island for the rest of his natural life, and figuring the inventing Racket was a No Go, he changed his name to Walt Whitman and began writing Poetry ... He was aiming for a job with Burma Shave, but couldn't get it cuz he wouldn't shave his Beard ... Life's Like That ......
Just imagine how many geniuses we discredit because they color outside of the lines.
Personally I don't think the world is short of innovation. It's short of people with the imagination to take the dreamers' materials and make them real.... And the reason is the obsession with money. We live in a world where 'the bottom line' rules. I love absurd things that surround me: artists who live for their craft, not 'how much I can sell my paintings for', salesmen who are dedicated to improving their customers' lives, not 'how much money did I leave on the table', doctors determined to save lives, not 'get wealthy and retire in Vail'. I think the unsung heroes are all around us. It's a pity we worship the 'successful' instead of those who labor unsung. Frankly, I know dozens of people I'd like to be, and Donald Trump is NOT on the list.....
Friends: If you do nothing else in Michigan, go to see the Thomas Edison Museum. It is an entire village, original restoration of his lab complex, and it is lit by....his original surviving hand-made incandescent lightbulbs! Tour guides dress in period costumes, and usuallk know answers to questions, if not too technical. Great experience for kids/grandkids as well. Food for consumption picnic style available. 5 stars.
Thomas Edison (aka The Boy Genius) was quite a businessman. I was raised in a neighborhood of engineers and chemists not far from Edison, NJ, and Menlo Park, NJ (where he established his labs in 1876). http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/ ; The mother of one of my best friends (John introduced me to both the newspaper business and to Kurt Vonnegut) taught Latin at Edison High School. New York City's electrical company, founded by Tom, is still known as Con Edison. As a boy I read and re-read a biography of Thomas Edison from his start in Sarnia and his loss of hearing when he was tossed off a train for a (failed) chemical experiment aboard the train to his long struggle to find the 'right filament' for his light bulb. I've come to a more nuanced understanding of the man over the course of my life.... Somehow, it's the failed genius of Tesla that seems more 'real' to me, though. Thomas Edison was sort of the Bill Gates of his era. And I find guys like that less interesting than people like Adam Osborne, Marc Andreessen, Shuji Nakamura, and hundreds of other folks mostly forgotten.....
Telsa set up shop in my neighborhood, there are great stories of his remote controlled boat off the cliffs of Long Island. He is facinating. Friends of Science East are working to save his only remaining lab, designed by Stanford White. http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/
hmmm....can time actually stand still, drag frame and all? isn't this journey in constant time travel? sorry, silly question coming from the catfish section.
Doc~In Elgin,IL. is the McGraw Edison area. Story has it that McGraw invented the electric toaster,in a partnership that saw other interesting things I have forgotten for the moment...By the way,just a short drive south from there is the world center for the study(as I have read)of accoustic design,by some ex-army guy(or maybe it was a purchased title,to make him sound more important)and there is a great story that goes along with that,too..
My husband is known as "Electric Boy" and worships Tesla's work. He also enjoys demonstrations of the Tesla coil. Being married to a certified genius I often wonder how Mina (Edison's wife) managed daily living with her husband?
I have a dedicated electronic workshop for my husband and his collection of audio-video equipment. His collection of items spills into the rest of our walk-out basement. His computer station is strewn with the components parts that live outside of its case. There are
flashing colored lights on a circuit board that remind me of a space ship. He warehouses his "first" computer (the sze of a closet) in our garage.
We now need to empty the 900 sq. ft. basement of his commercial building. It contains more electronics form his 25 years in business (August Systems and Audio-Video Service Center). Anyone herad of Graphyx Speakers? He designed them. They are built to last foreever.
I'm just going to blow dry my hair (I cant tease my mullet anymore) and put on my tight jeans and ripped polyester shirt for todays topic.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tesla, Love Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2w4vl9mt8
On reading today's topic and marveling in all the things these men did I wonder how long the list would be of the inventers over the last hundred years or so who have improved our lives.
It is astounding when you think what life was like before electricity, refrigeration, x-rays, phones, computers and all the other things we take for granted.
Korthal~it would make driving without bein distracted more normal. Let me put youn hold while I turn left
Doc Nolan: The Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village in Michigan is awesome as well. I often comingle the two, inverting the locations, but I know Michigan is not New Jersey...really.
RY:
That's why I don't often use my cell while driving.
I hate talking on the phone anyway.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I played Nikola Tesla in a solo performance for the National History Day competition. My history teacher had competed in the national level, but never had a student place in the top three, every year of the contest's existence. My study of Tesla gave me a lifelong admiration of the man and an appreciation of the link between grand genius and great madness that is so often to be found.
more on the honor rollThe competition proved to be one of the defining experiences of my salad days. I wound up winning the district and state levels and coming in third at nationals (I still have the bronze medal though I spent the $200 almost as soon as I cashed it).
Tesla was a tragic figure who died all alone in that hotel room. Often penniless, he lived extravagantly, dining at Delmonico's every night while adorned in white tie and tails. His debts mounted along with his frustrations.
He was also a tremndous germaphobe who did not like to shake hands (even with his dear friend, Mark Twain) and had eighteen napkins stacked neatly at his table so that he would not have to use any of them more than once. He habitually threw away gloves after one week.
Like most geniuses, Tesla was a true original. In the words of another great genius, William Shakespeare: "I shall not look upon his like again."
Or as our receptionist would say "Is that why that rock band named themselves after him?" Except I doubt she knows the band Tesla either.
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Unhinged ~ Can you pass the hairspray this way ~ I've already gone thru 4 bottles & my hair is just not standing high enough.
Nachista maybe she can find them playing a gig in a bar while she's in the Cabo/Gautamala area of Mexico...
With all due respect to today's eclectic & electric headliner, and on the heels of yesterday's gut-wrenching detour.... Well this is quite simply the best I could come up with today....
I offer unto you the unharnessed genius of Young Einstien....
First there was beer......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apj4QSN8XQY&feature=related
which then lead us down the path into infinitely more dangerous territory.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxaXJV8HvU&feature=related
culminating in one of the greatest discoveries of all.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqQKESDrj4&feature=related
Peace out..........
Here's a little Tesla trivia quiz - http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz232412ac340.html
(I answered only 7 correctly - a shockingly poor result.)
I'm trying to think of any real innovations in recent times. All I can seem to come up with are improvements and advancements, but nothing really new.
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Rings, I hang upside down in those funky "inversion boots" as I spray my hair and then take a nap while it dries. Awesome elevation on The Do, and it straightens my back.
Ah the lengths we go for beauty, eh Jonathon?
I'll bet you do have the swellest do for miles around, though.
I like mine rather on my head, or flat, I guess I should say. On my head is a given.
I'm mostly successful except on damp days such as this.
I'm wondering if a 2 hour headstand might work, then a quick dash out into the rain, then back again into headstand.
Will that tame my tresses?
Seems whenever I sit down and type here, I get an avalanche of deer. Here thery are again, five or 6. A little spotted fawn, and there's that trouble maker again, the one who kicks up my lawn.
Wet lawn today, and now it's wet lawn with deer divots...
Do we still get to take photos, or did we lose that "recent member photo" thing that used to be on the right side of the page?
I miss it!
Nature photos, bambi pictures...
The "Clapper".......... clap on!, clap o........
Right now the only way I've found to see photos is to go to the person's Eyedenity.
Maybe there's a network problem like with the videos.
I'll send an e-mail and find out what happened to our photos being posted.
As mentioned above, many of the eccentric characteristics of genius' like Tesla and Edison can be found in the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. However, while these two originally started out as innovators, I find it hard to keep them in the same class as Tesla and Edison when they've gone on to become dictator like businessmen. They have ceased creating themselves, and instead crack the whip at all the serfs below them (read: fresh out of school programmers, the true innovators). No, I think the true genius exists within those uncaring to conform to a world that can never understand. It all comes down to egos, too, doesn't it? Of course Edison did not want the AC method to become more popular...he didn't invent it. However, he still kept pressing on, as did Tesla. Only those who truly disregard anything but their science fully achieve. However, they are usually so disconnected they don't notice their own success until much later in life, if ever.
korthal: (and all): aren't there some other page changes that happened when the right hand side pictures went away? I think cuukoo brought up that there's a missing tab on the top of the page, and I think she is right. Although for the life of me, I can't figure out what it was or what it said.
I think all this happened during the memory topic of last week or so. I figured it was a joke, or a trick, to see if we noticed there was something missing, but I guess not.
I do see the Peterman ads on the left, where there used to be Google ads....
I want our pictures back.
If it can be arranged.
PeterLake: the clapper.
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<laughing really hard>
Well, if we go along with the clapper idea, there's ginsu knives. What an innovation they were! 82 knives that will never dull, all for the low, low, low price of (3 easy payments) of $19.95 (plus postage and handling).
But only if you order in the next 10 minutes.
PARK:
I think the missing tab you refered to was a PHOTO CONTEST tab, and photos were shown on the left bar along with member photos.
I e-mailed and will keep everyone informed when I get an answer.
I asked if it had anything to do with the video problem that the site was having.
And I said we miss the member photes.
korthal: thank you ma'am. Now I remember: the photos from "Photo Contest" and they're all gone too.
Hmm.
Hope we can get our pictures and vids back...they were fun.
many thanks for emailing...
What happens if instead of a straightforward answer {regarding what happened to our photos} we are confronted with a ransom demand? It could happen...
off to yoga........back for a night with...ida lupino...they drive by night. thank you park4 for turning the light towards tcm.
How do we do that, bert?
I'm all for it.
Do we ransom a person or a thing?
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Oops, sorry guys. I'm new to actually posting (obviously), and thought I might be able to embed a video here. You can find the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deHC3qbyOfo Just a cool little snippet about how they incorporated Tesla and his awesomeness into the movie, The Prestige.
The sticky tape/ lint roller- if you have animals & like to wear black it is beyond genius.
Park, I'm thinking of the line from Blazing Saddles... I'll be the sheriff, hold the gun to my head, and yell, "One more move and the n----r gets it!"
Think that'll get the pictures/videos back? Or just some hate mail from people who never like Blazing Saddles?
Door #2, jonathan, door #2.
too funny.
Wow, fail twice in a row. Here's the REAL link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deHC3qbyOfo Le sigh...
Maybe they will want to ransom me from you all since I wrote demanding answers about our given right to our photos.
You all better be behind me or in front of me after all I'm the one who put my head on the block making demands in the name of all of us.
LOL!!!
Just in case there is a higher power watching us.
Mac, Thanks for the clip. I had hoped to find the 'light globe' scene earlier but came up empty handed. This film was my first exposure to Tesla. He obviously deserves much more attention.
Jonathan, I think its high time for a Blazing Saddles / Mel Brooks Movie Festival.
...don't you worry korthal, we have your back, you can trust us, and the check's in the mail.
now, don't you feel better?
j/k
Korthal,
I'm right behind you on this one!.......... well maybe not exactly right behind you....but ..... but a few steps further back ...... did you turn a corner up ahead?...Boy you walk fast when your on a mission!............ I didn't see which way you turned but I'm certain I'll be able to catch up to you before you stand in front of the Wizard....drat,..... I just gotta tie my shoe laces...... yet again...... I think I hear footsteps on the stairs.......
I'll just wait down here in the lobby..... right behind you.....
Thanks for taking the lead Korthal! Very thoughtful of you.
John
Oh good, looks like I'll be in the lobby with PARK4...... see Kortal, we are behind you....
What makes this country of ours great...each and every single State in the Union...is that we can agree or disagree and freely express our opinions...without hatred of each other, without being censored by the government, and with marked civility towards each other...the very ideals the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was founded upon!!
The original Colonial Charter, granted by King Charles II in 1663, was given so that residents could be able to "...freelye and fullye have and enjoye his and theire owne judgments and consciences..." and many more remarks, in that charter, evoke tolerance as well as independence...
Discussion, debate, and tolerance of others are the hallmarks of Rhode Island's origins and, I'm proud to say, of our Nation as a whole. I value the virtues expressed by Roger Williams when he named the three islands, in Narragansett Bay; Hope, Patience, and Prudence.
Something well worth remembering...and practicing...even in this day and age...
Oops...meant that to go to yesterday's discussion...forgive my faux pas...
All you need to know about Mr. Tesla, brought to you by Jim Jarmusch via Jack & Meg White: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfq7DAnoh4
So I guess we'll talk about Galileo's telescope next month, given that Tuesday was the 400th Anniversary of that.
Sorry for the snark, it's been a rough day.
And our pictures, reviews, and videos are under the travel section now.
My guess is the photo contest was over but people were still uploading, decreasing bandwith.
Seems funny to me that when questions arise about changes to the village format, somebody feels the need to contact the not-so-pseudonymous mayor.
When I called for that it was as a joke assuming that he does as he was once known to have done: Reads what is herein written.
DV:
I checked out the travel section and found Olivia's photo!
Oh my!!!
I'm a big fan of both Tesla the scientist and Tesla the band. When it comes to Galileo, if it weren't for Queen and Wayne's World, my generation would have forgotten him. Edison's my favorite due to all the legendary stories of how he accidently trash a few labs during his experiements. I could never figure out why a punk band never sang about him.
The photos are still there ... under 'Travel'.... I'd forgotten that I'd put some up there....
If you all REALLY want to explore invention, R & D, the mysteries of engineering creativity, and so on, you need to check out John Lienhard's radio show 'The Engines of Our Ingenuity', which many Houstonians have been listening to for DECADES. Transcripts of all the short shows are here: http://uh.edu/engines/ . A fantastic and very cool collection of thoughts about everything from windmills, to the Erie Canal, to snowflakes, to Kurt Godel, to engineering freeways, to Alfred Stieglitz, to.... well, you get the idea.... All 2,549 episodes are here! Wow!
Julia Masi
Before they became a disco band, the Bee Gees had a song about Edison on their Odessa Album.... From their ballad days..
These are the lyrics....
He made electric lights to read. He gave us light today.
He gave us cylinders to please.
When Edison came to stay. Edison came to stay.
Edison set the world on fire. He really made the day.
Station to station ; many wires.
Edison came to stay. Edison came to stay.
Oh, how , look at us now. We've still got a lot to learn.
But it's someone else's turn.
Edison's here to stay. Edison's here to stay.
All of the world can taste his glory. All of the people say.
You be the man to write his story. Edison's here to stay.
Edison's here to stay.
Oh, how, look at us now. We've still got a lot to learn.
But it's someone else's turn.
Edison's here to stay . Edison's here to stay.
He made electric lights to read. He gave us light today.
He gave us cylinders to please, when Edison came to stay.
Edison came to stay.Edison came to stay.Edison came to stay.
You be the man to write his story. Edison came to stay.
Edison came to stay.
All of his world can hear his story. Edison came to stay.
Edison came to stay . Edison came to stay. Edison came to stay ..
Edison came to stay (keep repeating and fade out )
I perceive that this was supposed to nominally be about phobias, so I herewith put forth my favourite one, and a reliable generator of screaming fits when my kids were wee:
coulrophobia-fear of clowns.
Can't stand the buggers...
Olivia,
So true, nothing creepier than a clown except for a mime.
In a play written with a friend, after a long presentation by the prosecution in a murder trial, the defense rose; announced: "Your honor, the man was a mime" and rested.
"Case dismissed!" ruled the court.
Mac,
Welcome aboard. I must confess I never cared for The Prestige (a very unpleasant film filled with people whose journey I was not happy to share) though it was lovely to see Tesla getting some publicity. Rather than the whacked out David Bowie version though, I would love to see him as the subject of his own movie, treated seriously.
Jonathan,
Your movie reference, on the other hand, I love. Blazing Saddles is Brooks at his best.
Stoney,
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.