Thread: Nikola Tesla
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Old 9th Oct 2017, 9:03 pm   #4
dave walsh
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Default Re: Nikola Tesla

A complex and mysterious story- he was very much ahead of his time-like Einstein. Having thought up multi phase AC transmission while reading German poetry he built the Power Station at Niagra. Worked for Edison on his clumsy DC Generators then Westinghouse who won the AC/DC battle using Tesla know-how. Then Tesla develops a "wireless" power transmission system which would put anyone using cables out of business or that's what they assumed. It was probaly the equivalent of telling the Oil Industry that cars can run on water. Dies in poverty 1942 ? The Secret Service move in and remove all the documentation from his hovel-nobody knows who he was after that, even when they named things after him. The Tesla radio is a thing of beauty however. Some people think ithat this was all just a coincidence but he's central to everything down to the motor in a highly prized retro record player

Dave W

I always thought that they used much the same story line in the Bowie film "The Man Who Fell To Earth". They don't [actually] kill the alien there either. No need he's naive as well. Amazingly good film!

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