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the forgotten genious

the forgot ten genious introduction/ early years middle years later years reference

contents

later years legacy / reference

Wardenclyffe years

Nobel prize rumors

honors

1918-1943

plaques and memorials

energy weapon

source

death

further reading

introduction / early years middle years 1886 -1899

American citizenship

x-ray experimentation

radio

Colorado Springs

introduction

1856 -1885

working for Edison

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Nikola Tesla on 100 Serbian dinar banknote.

als o k n o w n fo r his hi g h - vo l t a g e, high-frequenc y power experiments in N ew York and Colorado Springs w hi c h in clu d e d p ate nte d d e v i ce s and the oretic al work us e d in the invention of radio communication, for his X- ray experiment s, and for his ill -fate d at te m pt at inte rco n tinental wireless transmission in his unfinished Wardencly f fe Tower projec t.

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7th January 1943)

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian - American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla s t ar t e d w o r k i n g i n t h e t e lephony and electrical fields before immigrating to the United States in 18 8 4 to work for Thomas Edison. He soon struck out on his own with financial backer s, set ting up labo ratories and companies to develop a rang e of ele c tric al d ev ice s. H is patented AC induc tion motor and transformer were licensed. Tesla is

Tesla's achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous. Although he made a great deal of money from his patents, he spent a lot on numerous experiments over the years. In the last few decades of his life, he ended up living in diminished circumstances as a recluse in Room 3327 of New Yorker Hotel, occasionally making unusual statements to the press.Because of his pronouncements and the nature of his work over the years, Tesla gained a reputation in popular culture as the archet ypal "mad scientist". Tesla died penniless and in debt on 7 January 19. Nikola Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a comeback in popular culture.

INTRODUCTION

In 2005, he was listed amongst the top 100 nominees in the TV show "The Greatest Americanâ&#x20AC;?. His work and reputed inventions are also at the center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to support various ps eud os ciences, like UFO theories and New Age occultism. In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term "tesla" to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength.

Early years 1.1.

1856-1885

Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire (today Croatia). His father, Milutin Tesla, was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Tesla's mother, Đuka Tesla, whose father was also a Serbian Orthodox priest, had a talent for making home craft tools and for memorizing many Serbian epic poems, even though she had never learned how to read. Nikola Tesla's progenitors were from Western Serbia, near Montenegro. Nikola was the fourth of five children, having an older brother, Dane, who was killed in a horse-riding accident when Nikola was five, and three sister s, Milka, Angelina and Marica. Some accounts claim that Tesla had caused the accident by frightening the horse.

Nikola Tesla’s mother, Đuka Tesla

In 1861, Nikola attended the primary School in Smiljan, Austrian Empire, where he studied subjects as German, arithmetic, and religion.

In 1870, Nikola Tesla moved to Karlovac, Croatia to at tend school at Higher Real Gymnasium, where his math teacher, Martin Sekulic, pro foundly influenced him. He was able to per form integral calculus in his head, leading his teachers to think that he was cheating. He finished a four-year term in just three years, graduating in 1873.

I n 18 6 2, t h e Te s l a fa m i l y m o v e d to Gospic, Austrian Empire, where Nikola's father worked as a pastor. Nikola completed K rajina primar y School, followed by the lower Real Gymnasium.

In 1873, after graduating from Higher Real Gymnasium, Tesla returned to his hometown, Smiljan, Croatia. Shortly after arriving, Tesla contracted cholera; he was bedridden for nine months and was near death multiple

times. Nikola’s father, in a moment of despair, agreed to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness (his father wanted him to become a priest). I n 1874 , Te s la e va d e d a d ra f t by escaping to Tomingaj, near Gracac. During this period of time, he explored the mount ains in hunter ’s garb. Tesla claimed that this contact with nature made him stronger, both phy sically and ment ally. H e read many books while in Tomingaj, later claiming that Mark Twain’s work s helped him to miraculously recover from the illness.

necessary. At the end of his second year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling. During his third year, Tesla gambled away his allowance and his tuition money, later gambling back his initial losses and returning the balance to his family. Tesla claimed that he “conquered

Tesla’s house (parish hall) in Smiljan, where he was born, and the church, where his father served.

ceived a letter of commendation from the dean of the technical faculty to his father, which stated, “Your son is a star of first rank.” Tesla claimed that he worked from 3 A.M. to 11 P.M., no Sundays or holidays excepted. He was “mortified when his father made light of hard won honors.” After his father’s death in 1879, Tesla found a package of letters from his professors to his father, warning that unless he were removed from the school, Tesla would be killed through over work. During his second year, Tesla came into conflict with Professor Poeschl over the Gramme dynamo when Tesla suggested that commutators weren’t

passion then and there”, but he was known to play billiards in the U.S. When exam time came, Tesla was unprepared and asked for an extension to study, but was denied. He never graduated from the university and did not receive grades for the last semester. In December 1878, Tesla left Graz and severed all relations with his family. He didn't want his parents to know that he had dropped out. His friends thought that he had drowned in the Mur River. Tesla went to Maribor (now in Slovenia), where he was employed as a draftsman for 60 florins

In 1875, Tesla enrolled at Austrian Poly te chnic in Graz, Aus tria on a Military Border scholarship. During his first year Tesla never missed a lecture, earned the highest grades possible, passed nine exams (nearly twice as many required), star ted a Serbian culture club, and even re -

Nikola Tesla 1879 at age 23 and his passport from 1883

a month. He spent his spare time playing cards with the local man on the streets. In March 1879, Milutin Tesla came to Maribor to plead to his son to return home, but Nikola refused. Nikola suffered a ner vous breakdown during this time. On 24 March 1879, Tesla was returned to Gospic under police guard for not having a residence permit. On 17 April 1879, Milutin Tesla died at the age of 60 after contracting an unspecified illness. During this year, Nikola taught a large class of students in his old school, Higher Real Gymnasium, in Gospic. In January 1880, two of Nikola Tesla's uncl e s put to g ether enough money to help him flee to Prague. Unfortunately, Tesla could not attend Charles-Ferdinand University because he arrived too tardy to enroll; never took Greek, which was required; and was illiterate in Czech, which was also required. Tesla did, however, attend lectures at the university as an auditor but did not receive grades for the courses. In 1881, Nikola Tesla moved to Budapest to work under Ferenc Puskas at a telegraph company, the Budapest Telephone Exchange. Upon arrival,

Nikola Tesla realized that the company, then under construction, was not func tional, so he worked as a draftsman in the Central Telegraph Office, instead. Within a few months, the Budapest Telephone Exchange b e c ame func tional and Tesla was allocated the chief electrician position.During his employment, Nikola Tesla made many improvements to the Central Station equipment and claimed to have perfected a telephone repeater or amplifier, which was never patented or publicly described.

1.2.

working for Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931)

In the middle of 1882 Nikola Tesla travelled to Paris to join Edison’s Continental Company. Where he began designing and making improvements to e l e c t r i c al e quip m e nt. I n 18 8 3 moved to Strasbourg and made the prototype of the induction motor. In 1884, he travelled to New York. During his trip across the Atlantic, his

ticket, money and some of his luggage were stolen and he was nearly throw n overb o ard af ter a mutiny broke out on the ship. He arrived with only four cents in his pocket, a letter of recommendation, a few poems, and remnants of his belongings. In the letter of recommendation from Charles Batchelor 1 , a former em ployer, to Thomas Edison, it is claimed that Batchelor wrote, "I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man". Edison hired Tesla to work for his Edison M a chin e Wo r k s . Te sla's wo r k fo r Edison began with simple electrical engineering and quickly progressed to solving some of the company's most difficult problems. Tesla was even offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison Company's direct current 2 generators. In 1885, Tesla claimed that he could redesign Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both service and economy. According to Tesla, Edison remarked,

Charles W. Batchelor (December 25, 1845 – January 1, 1910) was an inventor and close associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison during much of Edison’s career. He was involved in some of the greatest inventions and technological developments in history.

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

"There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you - if you can do it - this has b e en n ote d as an o d d s t atem ent from an Edison whose company was s ting y w ith pay and w ho did not have that sort of cash on hand. After months of work, Tesla fulfilled the task and inquired about payment. Edison, claiming that he was only joking, replied, “When you become a full-fledged American, you will appreciate an American joke.” Instead, Edison offered a 10 dollars a week raise over Tesla's 18 dollars per week salary. Ever prideful, Tesla quit, and spent the next few months picking up odd jobs across New York City. Edison relied heavily on tedious experimentation for most of his discoveries, a commitment which some historians attribute par tially to his lack of formal education. Tesla, in contrast, was an emotionally driven dreamer with years of engineering training, which allowed him to work out theories before physically implementing them. Later in life, each man publicly criticized the other’s work. Tesla was a germaphobe, fastidiously clean to the point of (allegedly) using seventeen clean towels a day, and claiming to have a “violent aversion against the earrings of women.” He once said that Edison, “lived in utter disregard of the most elementar y rules of hygiene.” Edison and Tesla were alike in some equally irreconcilable ways. Both were egocentrics who abhorred egocentricity in others. And both men required little sleep, which would have made for many long, grumpy hours in the workshop. Edison’s least favorite of Tesla’s “impractical” ideas was the concept of using AC technology to bring electricity to the people. Edison insisted that his own DC system was superior, in that it maintained a lower voltage from

power station to consumer, and was, therefore, safer. But AC technology, which allows the flow of energy to periodically change direction, is more prac tical for transmit ting massive quantities of energy, as is required by a large city, or hub of industr y, say. At the time, DC technology only allowed for a power grid with a onemile radius from the power source. The conflict between the two methods and their masters came to be known as the War of Currents, forever immortalized by the band AC/DC.

Middle years 2.1.

1886-1899

In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Elec tric Light & Manufac turing. T he company ins t alled electrical arc lamp1 based illumination systems designed by Tesla and also had designs for dynamo electric machine commutators, the first patents issued to Tesla in the US. In 18 85, Tesla proposed that the company should go on to develop his ideas for alternating current transmission systems and motors. The investors disagreed and eventually fired him, leaving him penniless; Tesla was forced to work as a ditch digger for US$2 per day. Tesla considered the winter of 1886 /1887 as a time of "terrible headaches and bitter tears". During this time, he questioned the value of his education. In April 1887, Tesla started a company, the Tesla Electric Company, with the backing of New York attorney Charles F. Peck and Alfred S. Brown, the director of Western Union. They set up a laboratory for Tesla at 89 Liberty St.

in Manhattan so he could work on his alternating current motor and other devices for power distribution, with an agreement that they share fiftyfifty with Tesla any profits generated from patents. It was here in 1887 that Tesla constructed a brushless 2 alternating current induction motor, based on a rotating magnetic field principle he claimed to have con ceived of in 1882. He received a US patent for the motor in May 1888. At that time many inventors were trying to develop workable AC motors because AC's advantages in long distance high voltage transmission were counterbalanced by the inability to operate motors on AC. The rotating magnetic field induction motor seems to have been an independent invention by Tesla but it was not a unique discovery at the time. Italian physicist Galileo Ferraris published a paper on rotating magnetic field based induction motor on 11 March 1888, a working model of which he may have b e en d em ons trating at the Universit y of Turin as early as

The lamp consists of two electrodes, first made from carbon but typically made today of tungsten, which are separated by a gas. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure mercury arc lamp.

A brush is a device which conducts current between stationary wires and moving parts, most commonly in a rotating shaft. Typical applications include electric motors, alternators and electric generators.

I n 18 8 8 , t h e e d i to r o f El e c t r i c a l World magazine, Thomas Commerford Martin (a friend and publicist), arranged for Tesla to demonstrate his alternating current system, including his induction motor, at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers

(now IEEE). Engineers working for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company repor ted to George Westinghouse that Tesla had a viable AC motor and power systemÂ - something that Westinghouse had been trying to secure. In July 1888 Brown and Peck negotiated a licensing deal with George Westinghouse for Te sla's polyphase induction motor and transformer designs for $60,000 in cash and stock and a royalty of $2.50 p e r AC h o r s e p owe r p ro du ce d by each motor. Westinghouse also hired Tesla for one year for the large fee of $2,000 a month to be a consultant at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs. During that year, Tesla worked in Pittsburgh, helping to create an alternating current system to power the city's streetcars. He found the time there frustrating because of conflicts between him and the other Westinghouse engineers over how to best implement AC power. Between them they settled on a 60 -cycle AC current system Tesla proposed (to m a tc h t h e w o r k in g fre q u e n c y of Tesla's motor), although they soon found that, since Tesla's induction motor could only run at a constant speed, it would not work for street cars. They ended up us

Drawing from U.S. Patent, illustrating principle of Tesla's AC motor

1885. In 1888, a month before Tesla demonstrated his AC induction motor, Westinghouse engineer Oliver B. Shallenberger invented an induction meter that was based on the same rotating magnetic field principle and during Tesla's demonstration English engineer Elihu Thomson stated he was working on an induction motor.

2.2.

American citizenship

On 30 July 1891, at the age of 35, Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He told many of his companions that he valued the citizenship more than any scientific honors that he had acquired. In the same year, Tesla established his South Fifth Avenue laboratory in New York. Later, he established his Houston Street laborator y in New York at 46 E. Houston Street. He lit electric lamps wirelessly at both of the New York locations, providing evidence for the potential of wireless power transmission. In 1892, Nikola spent a few months in Europe visiting other scientists. He later went to visit his hometown, arriving from Paris hours before his mother's death. He stayed at her side until he was exhausted. Nikola was awakened from a dream, in which an angel bearing resemblance to his mother appeared. He wrote: "I was wakened up by an indescribably sweet song of many voices." He believed that the dream was a sign that his mother had died; he later confirmed this. H er last words to him were: "You've arrived, NidĹžo, my pride." At first, Tesla believed that the dream was a message from the supernatural; however, after a few months of

research, he concluded that his dream was caused by a painting of angels that he had seen before going to bed and that the singing voices had been from a nearby church. After the death of his mother, Nikola became ill and spent two to three weeks recovering in Gospic and Tomingaj. From 1892 to 1894, Tesla served as the vice president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the forerunner (along with the Institute of Radio Engineers) of the modern-day IEEE. Tesla investigated har vesting energy in space. He believed that it was merely a question of time until men would succeed in attaching their machiner y to the ver y wheelwork of nature, stating: "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe." Nikola Tesla's AC dynamo - elec tric machine (Elec tric generator) used to g e n erate AC w hi ch is us e d to

transport electricity across great distances. In 1893, Westinghouse won the bid to electrify the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago with alternating current. This World's Fair devoted a building to electrical exhibits. It was a key event in the history of AC power as Westinghouse and Tesla demonstrated the safety and reliability of alternating current to the American public. At the Columbian E x p o sition, Te sla d em ons trate d a series of electrical effects in a lecture he had performed throughout America and Europe. This included using high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp. An observer noted: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within the room was suspended two hard-rubber plates covered with tin foil. These were about fifteen feet apart, and served as terminals of the wires leading from the transformers. When the current was turned on, the lamps or tubes, which had no wires connected to them, but lay on a table bet ween the suspended plates, or

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company owned by William Edenborn, to form the United States Steel Corporation.

21 Nikola Teslaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AC dynamo-electric machine (Electric generator).

which might be held in the hand in almost any part of the room, were made luminous. These were the same experiments and the same apparatus shown by Tesla in London about two years previous, "where they produced so much wonder and astonishmentâ&#x20AC;?. Tesla also explained the principles of a rotating magnetic field and induction motor by demonstrating how to make a copper egg stand on end. The device he constructed is known as the "Egg of Columbus". As a result of the "War of Currents", Edison and Westinghouse went nearly

bankrupt. Edison had lost control of his company to J. P. Morgan1 and Morgan was refusing to loan more money to Westinghouse due to the financial strain of the Tesla AC patent (at that point Westinghouse had paid out an estimated $200,000 in licenses and royalties to Tesla, Brown, and Peck). In 1897 Westinghouse explained his financial difficulties to Tesla in stark terms, saying that if things continue the way they were he would no longer be in control of Westinghouse Electric and Tesla would have to "deal with the bankers" to try to collect future royalties. Westinghouse convinced Tesla to release his company from the

licensing agreement over Tesla's AC patents in exchange for Westinghouse Electric purchasing the patents for a lump sum payment of $216,000; this provided Westinghouse a break from what, due to alternating current's rapid gain in popularity, had turned out to be an overly generous $2.50 per AC horsepower royalty.

2.3.

X-ray experimentation

X-ray of Tesla's hand - one of the earliest x-ray photographs.

St ar ting in 189 4, Tesla began in vestigating what he referred to as radiant energy of "invisible" kinds that he had noticed damaged film in his lab in previous experiments[95] [96] (later identified as "Roentgen rays" or "X-Rays"). His early experiments were with Crookes tubes, a cold c atho d e ele c tric al dis charg e tube. Tesla may have been the first person in North America to acciden-

tally capture an X-ray image when he tried to photograph Mark Twain illuminated by an earlier type of gas discharge tube Geissler tube in 1895. The only thing captured in the image was the metal locking screw on the camera lens. Soon after, much of Tesla's early research - hundreds of invention models, plans, notes, laboratory data, tools, photographs, valued at $50,000 - was lost in the

The modern term for the phenomenon produced by this device is bremsstrahlung or braking radiation. Tesla used these coils to conduct innovative experiments in electrical lighting, phosphorescence, x-ray generation, high frequency alternating current phenomena, electrotherapy, and the transmission of electrical energy without wires.

5th Avenue laboratory fire of March 1895. Tesla is quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say?" In March 1896, after hearing of Wilhelm Rรถntgen's discover y of X-ray and X-ray imaging (radiography) Tesla pro ce e d e d to d o his ow n e x p eri ments in X-ray imaging, developing a high energy single terminal vacuum tube of his own design that had no target elec trode and that worked from the output of the Tesla Coil1. In his research, Tesla devised several experimental setups to produce Xrays. Tesla held that, with his circuits,

23 X-ray of Tesla's foot with shoe on- one of the earliest x-ray photographs.

the "instrument will [enable one to] g en erate Ro entg en ray s of much greater power than obtainable with ordinary apparatus."

longitudinal waves, such as those produced in waves in plasma. These plasma waves can occur in force-free magnetic fields.

Tesla noted the hazards of working with his circuit and single-node Xray-producing devices. In his many notes on the early investigation of this phenomenon, he attributed the skin damage to various causes. He believed early on that damage to the skin was not caused by the Roentgen rays, but by the ozone generated in contact with the skin, and to a lesser extent, by nitrous acid. Tesla incorrectly believed that X-rays were

On 11 July 1934, the New York Herald Tribune published an article on Tesla, in which he recalled an event that would occasionally take place while experimenting with his singleelec trode vacuum tubes; a minute particle would break off the cathode, pass out of the tube, and physically strike him. “Tesla said he could feel a sharp stinging pain where it entered his b o d y, an d a gain at t h e p la ce where it passed out.” In comparing

these particles with the bits of metal projected by his “electric gun”, Tesla said, “The particles in the beam of force will travel much faster than such particles and they will travel in concentrations”.

2.4.

radio

In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio controlled boat

Nikola Tesla's theories on the possibility of the transmission by radio waves go back as far as lectures and demonstrations in 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the National Electric Light Association. Tesla's demonstrations and principles were written about widely through various media outlets. Many devices such as the Tesla Coil were used in the further development of radio. Tesla's radio wave experiment s in 18 9 6 we re co ndu c te d in G e r la ch Hotel (later renamed The Radio Wave building), where he resided.

In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radiocontrolled boat (U.S. Patent 613,809 Â Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles). In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radiocontrolled boat - which he dubbed "teleautomaton" - to the public during an electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden. The crowd that witnessed the demonstration made outrageous claims about the workings of the boat: ever y thing from ma gi c and te l e p athy to b e ing p i loted by a trained monkey hidden inside. Tesla tried to sell his idea to

In 1900, Tesla was granted patents for "system of transmitting electrical energy" and "an electrical transmitter." When Guglielmo Marconi made his famous first ever transatlantic radio transmis sion in 19 01, Te sla quipped that it was done with 17 Tesla patents. This was the beginning of years of patent battles over radio with Tesla's patents being upheld in

1903, followed by a reverse decision in favor of Marconi in 1904. In 1943, a Supreme Court of the United States decision restored the prior patents of Tesla, Oliver Lodge, and John Stone. The court declared that their decision had no bearing on Marconi's claim as the first to achieve radio transmission, just that since Marconi's claim to certain patents were questionable, he could not claim infringement on those same patents[109] (there are claims the high court was trying to nullify a World War I claim against the U.S. government by the Marconi Company via simply restoring Tesla's prior patent).

Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magnifying transmitterâ&#x20AC;?.

On 13 May 1899, while on his way to Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tesla stopped by a meeting of the Commercial Club in Chicago, Illinois for his "Teleautomatics" address /demonstration.

the U.S. military as a type of radiocontrolled torpedo, but they showed little interest. Remote radio control remained a novelty until World War I and afterward, when a number of countries used it in military programs.

2.5.

Colorado Springs

receivers and coherer circuits show an unpredicted level of complexity: distributed high-Q helical resonators, ra di o fre qu e n c y fe e d b a ck , c r u d e heterodyne ef fec t s, and regeneration techniques. Tesla stated that he observed stationary waves during this time.

An experiment in Colorado Springs1.

On 17 May 1899, Tesla moved to Colorado Springs, where he would have room for his high voltage, highfrequency experiments. His lab was located near Foote Ave. and Kiowa St. He chose this location because the polyphase AC power distribution system had been introduced there and he had as s o ciate s w ho were w illing to give him all the p ower he needed without charging for it. Upon his arrival, he told repor ters

that he was conducting wireless telegraphy experiments, transmitting signals from Pikes Peak to Paris. On 15 June 1899, Tesla per formed his fir s t ex p eriment s at his Colorado Springs lab; he recorded his initial spark length at five inches long, but very thick and noisy. Tesla investigated atmospheric electricit y, obser ving lightning signals via his receivers. Reproductions of h

This bank of lights is receiving power by means of electrodynamic induction from an oscillator 30 m from the bulbs

Tesla's diar y contains explanations of his experiments concerning the ionosphere and the ground's telluric current s via transverse waves and longitudinal waves. He researched ways to transmit energy wirelessly over long distances (via transverse waves, to a lesser extent, and, more r e a d i l y, l o n g i t u d i n a l w a v e s). H e transmitted extremely low frequencies through the ground as well as b et we en th e ear th's sur fa ce and the Kennellyâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Heaviside layer. Tesla re cei ve d U.S . Patent 6 45,576 fo r wireless transceivers that developed standing waves by this method. In his experiments, he made mathematical calculations and computations based on his experiments and discovered that the resonant frequency of the earth was approximately 8 hertz (Hz) (later confirmed by researchers in the 1950s - named the Schumann resonance). Tesla sent electrostatic forces through natural media across a conductor situated in the changing

At his lab, Tesla proved that the earth is a conductor. He produced artificial lightning. Thunder from the released energy was heard 25 km away in Cripple Creek, Colorado. People walking along the street observed sparks jumping between their feet and the ground. Electricity sprang from a tap whenever someone turned them on. Lightbulbs within 30 m of the lab glowed even when turned off. Horses in a liver y stable bolted from their stalls after receiving shocks through their metal shoes. Butterflies were elec trified, swirling in circles with blue halos of St. Elmo's fire around their wings. While experimenting, he accidentally shor t- circuited the generator, causing a power outage. In August 1917, Tesla explained what had happened in The Electrical Experimenter: "As an example of what has been done with several 100 kW of high frequency energy liberated, it was found that the dynamos in a power house 10 km away were repeatedly burned out, due to the powerful high frequency currents set up in them, and which caused heavy sparks to jump thru the windings and destroy the insulation!" At his lab, Tesla obser ved unusual signals , w hi ch h e late r b e li eve d were ex traterrestrial radio wave communications coming from Mars. He noticed repetitive signals from his re ce i ve r w hi ch w e re su b s t a n tially different from the signals that he had noted from noise of storms and the earth. Specifically, he later recalled that the signals appeared in groups of one, t wo, three, and four clicks together. Tesla was highly criticized upon revealing his finding. Tesla had mentioned that he thought his inventions could be used to talk with other planets. It is debatable what type of signals Tesla received or whether he picked up anything at

all. Research has suggested that Tesla may have had a misunderstanding of the new technology he was working with,[citation needed] or that the signals Tesla observed may have been from a non-terrestrial natural radio source such as the Jovian plasma torus signals. Other sources hypothesize that he may have intercepted Marconi's European experiments - in December 1901, Marconi successfully transmitted the letter S (dot /dot /dot, the same three impulses that Tesla claimed to have received from outer space while at Colorado in 1899) from Poldhu, England to Signal Hill, Newfoundland (now part of Canada)

- or signals from another experimenter in wireless transmission. In 1899, John Jacob Astor IV invested $100,000 for Tesla to further develop and produce a new lighting system. Instead, Tesla used the money to fund his Colorado Springs experiments. On 7 January 1900, Tesla left Colorado Springs. His lab was torn down ca. 1905 and its contents were sold to satisfy a debt. The Colorado experiments had prepared Tesla for the establishment of the trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility known as Wardenclyffe near Shoreham, Long Island.

Tesla holding a phosphor-coated gas-discharge lamp, illuminated by wireless electricity. Colorado Springs, 1899.

magnetic flux and transferred electrical energy to a wireless receiver.

Later years 3.1.

Wardenclyffe years

to Morgan, but it was also fruitless. Morgan still owed Tesla money on the original agreement, and Tesla had been facing foreclosure even before construction of the tower began.

Tesla's Wardenclyffe plant on Long Island in 1904. From this facility, Tesla hoped to demonstrate wireless transmission of electrical energy across the Atlantic.

In 1900, with US$150,000 (more than $3 million today; 51% from J.Â Pierpont Morgan), Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower 1 facility. Tesla later approached Morgan to ask for more funds to build a more power ful transmitter. When asked

where all the money had gone, Tesla responded by saying that he was affected by the Panic of 1901, which he (Morgan) had caused. Morgan was shocked by the reminder of his part in the stock market crash and by Tesla's breach of contract by asking for more funds. Tesla wrote another plea

In December 1901, Marconi successfully transmitted the letter S from England to Newfoundland, terminating Tesla's relationship with Morgan. Over the next 5 years, Tesla wrote over 50 letters to Morgan, pleading for and demanding additional funding to complete the construction of Wardencly f fe. Tesla continued his proj e c t fo r an other nin e m onths . The tower was raised to its full 187 feet. In July 19 03, Tesla wrote to Morgan that in addition to wireless communication, Wardenclyffe would be capable of wireless transmission of electric power. On 14 October 1904, Morgan finally replied through his secretary, stating, "It will be impossible for [me/ Morgan] to do anything in the matter," after Tesla had written to Morgan when the financier was meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to appeal to his Christian spirit. In June 1902, Tesla's lab operations were moved to Wardencly ffe from Houston Street. On his 50th birthday in 1906, Tesla demonstrated his 200

31 hp (150 kW) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910 –1911 at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100 –5,000 hp. Tesla invented a steam powered mechanical oscillator (Tesla's oscillator) t. At his Houston Street lab, while experimenting with mechanical oscillators, Tesla allegedly generated a re s o nan ce of s eve ral b uil ding s , c ausing complaint s to the p o lice. As the speed grew, it is said that the machine oscillated at the resonance frequency of his own building and, belatedly realizing the danger, he was forced to use a sledge hammer to terminate the experiment, just as the police arrived. In February 1912, an article - “Nikola Tesla, Dreamer” by Allan L. Benson - was published

in World Today, in which an artist's illustration appears showing the entire earth cracking in half with the caption, “Tesla claims that in a few weeks he could set the earth's crust into such a state of vibration that it would rise and fall hundreds of feet and practically destroy civilization. A continuation of this process would, he says, eventually split the earth in two.” After Wardencly ffe, Tesla built the Telefunken 2 Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island. Some of what he wanted to achieve at Wardenclyffe w a s a cco m p li s h e d w i t h t h e Te l e funken Wireless. In 1917 the tower was seized and blown up with dynamite for scrap by the Marines 3 , owing to fears that

Grounded tuned coil in resonance with a distant transmitter illuminates a light (bottom). 1

The tower was named after James S. Warden, a western lawyer and banker who had purchased land for the endeavor in Shoreham, Long Island, about sixty miles from Manhattan. Here he built a resort community known as Wardenclyffe-On-Sound. Warden believed that with the implementation of Tesla's "world system" a "Radio City" would arise in the area. He offered Tesla 200 acres (81 ha) of land close to a railway line on which to build his wireless telecommunications tower and laboratory facility.

Telefunken is a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company).

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[6] using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combinedarms task forces.

32 German spies were using it and that it could be used as a landmark for German submarines. Before World War I (1914 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1918), Tesla looked overseas for investors to fund his re s earch. W hen the war star ted, Tesla lost the funding he was receiving from his patent s in European countries. During this time, Tesla was staying at Waldorf Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments.[citation needed] Eventually, the Wardencly ffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldor f A storia, to pay a US$400,000 debt. In 1917, around the time that the Wardenclyffe Tower was demolished by Boldt to make the land a more viable real estate asset, Tesla received AIEE's highest honor, the Edison Medal. In August 1917, Tesla first established the principles of frequency and power level for the first primitive radar units.

The Tesla coil wireless transmitter U.S. Patent 1,119,732

3.2.

Nobel prize rumors

On 6 November 1915, a Reuters news agency report from London had the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla; however, on 15 November, a Reuters story from Stockholm stated the prize that year was being awarded to Sir W illiam H enr y Bragg and W illiam Lawrence Bragg "for their ser vices in the analysis of cr ystal structure by m eans of X- ray s ." T here were unsubstantiated rumors at the time that Tesla and/or Edison had refused the prize. The Nobel Foundation declined to comment on the rumors other than saying, "Any rumor that a person has not been given a Nobel

Prize because he has made known his intention to refuse the reward is ridiculous," a recipient could only decline a Nobel Prize after he is announced a winner. There have been subsequent claims by Tesla biographers that Edison and Tesla were the original recipients and that neither were given the award because of their animosity toward each other; that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award; that both refused ever to accept the award if the other received it first; that both rejec ted any possibilit y of sharing

it; and even that a wealthy Edison refused it to keep Tesla from getting the $20,000 prize money. In the years after these rumors, neither Tesla nor Edison won the prize (although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915 and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 possible bids in 1937).

3.3.

1918-1943

Tesla (9th from left), along with some of the greatest scientists at that time, including Albert Einstein, taking an inspection tour of the New Brunswick Marconi Station. Circa 1921

In 1928, Tesla received his last patent , U.S . Patent 1,655,114, fo r a biplane1 capable of taking off vertic ally ( VTOL aircraf t) and then b e "gradually tilted through manipulation of the elevator devices" in flight until it was flying like a conventional plane. Tesla stated it would weigh 800 pounds and would sell at $1,000 for both military and consumer uses.

Although the aircraft was probably imprac tical, it may be the earliest known design for what became the tiltrotor or tiltÂ - wing concept as well as the earliest proposal for the use of turbine engines in rotor aircraft. Starting in 1934 the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company began paying Tesla US$125 per month

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two superimposed main wings. The Wright brothers' Wright Flyer used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage, it produces more drag than a similar monoplane wing. Improved structural techniques and materials and the quest for greater speed made the biplane configuration obsolete for most purposes by the late 1930s

as well paying his rent at the Hotel New Yorker, expenses the Company would pay for the rest of Tesla's life. Accounts on how this came about var y. Several sources say Westinghouse was worried about potential bad publicit y surrounding the im poverished conditions their former star inventor was living under. It has been described as being couched in the form of a "consulting fee" to get around Tesla's aver sion to accept charity, or by one biographer (Marc Seifer), as a type of unspecified settlement. Tesla's previous debt owed to Hotel Governor Clinton was never satisfied. In 1934, Tesla wrote to Consul Jankovic of his homeland. The letter cont ained a mes s age of gratitude to Mihajlo Pupin who had initiated a donation scheme by which American companies could support Tesla. [citation needed] Tesla refused the assistance, choosing instead to live on a modest pension received from Yugoslavia, and to continue his re search. In 1935, in an annual birthday celebration interview, Tesla announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance, a related

35 new means of communication, and a method of accurately determining the location of underground mineral deposits. In 1936, Tesla replied to a birthday telegram from Vladko Macek, saying that he was "equally proud" of his "S e r b ian o r igin and Cro at ian h o m e lan d," a p hra s e of te n p ara phrased in conciliator y contex t at modern-day joint Croatian-Serbian Tesla celebrations. In addition, in the same telegram, Tesla wrote "Long live all Yugoslavs."When others tried to co-opt him into ethnic and other conflicts in Yugoslavia, Tesla replied:

"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." In the fall of 1937, after midnight one night, Tesla left the Hotel New Yorker to make his regular commute to the cathedral and the librar y to feed the pigeons. While crossing a street a couple of blocks from the hotel, Tesla was unable to dodge a moving taxicab and was thrown heavily to the ground. Tesla's back was severely wrenched and three of his ribs were broken in the accident (the full extent of his injuries will never be known; Tesla refused to consult a

doctor - an almost lifelong custom). Tesla didn't raise any question as to who was at fault and refused medical aid, only asking be taken to his hotel via cab. Tesla was bedridden for some months and was unable to continue feeding pigeons from his window; soon, they failed to come. In the spring of 1938, Tesla was able to get up. He at once resumed the pigeons - feeding walks on a much more limited scale, but frequently had a messenger act for him.

3.4.

directed energy weapon

Later in life, Tesla made claims concerning a "teleforce" weapon after studying the Van de Graaff generator. The press called it a "peace ray" or death ray. Tesla described the weapon as being able to be used against ground based infantry or for antiaircraft purposes. Tesla gives the following description concerning the particle gun's operation: [the nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks. In total, the components and methods included: • An apparatus for producing manifestations of energy in free air instead of in a high vacuum as in the past. • A mechanism for generating tremendous electrical force. • A means of intensifying and amplifying the force developed by the second mechanism. • A new method for producing a tremendous electrical repelling force. This would be the projector, or gun, of the invention.

Te sla claim e d to have worke d on plans for a directed-energy weapon from the early 1900s until his death. In 1937, at a luncheon in his honor concerning the death ray, Tesla stated, "But it is not an experiment... I have built, demonstrated and used it. Only a little time will pass before I can give it to the world." His records indicate that the device is based on a narrow stream of small tungsten pellets that are accelerated via high voltage. During the same year, Nikola Tesla wrote a treatise, "The Ar t of Pro jecting Concentrated Non-dispersive

37 Energy through the Natural Media," concerning charged par ticle beam weapons. Tesla published the document in an attempt to expound on the technical description of a "super weapon that would put an end to all war." This treatise is currently in the Nikola Tesla Museum archive in Belgrade. It describes an openended vacuum tube with a gas jet s eal that all ow s p ar ticl e s to e x it , a method of charging par ticles to millions of volts, and a method of creating and directing non-dispersive particle streams (through electrostatic re pulsi on). Te sla tri e d to intere s t the United States of America War

Depar tment, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia in the device. During the period in which the negotiations were being carried on, Tesla claimed that efforts had been made to steal the invention. His room had been entered and his paper s had been scrutinized, but the thieves, or spies, left empty-handed. He said that there was no danger that his invention could be stolen for he had at no time committed any part of it to paper. The blueprint for the teleforce weapon was all in his mind.

3.5.

On 7 January 1943, Tesla, 86, died alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. His corpse was later found by maid Alice Monaghan after she had entered Tesla's room, ignoring the "do not disturb" sign that Tesla had had placed on his door two days prior to his death. Assistant medical examiner, H. W. Wembly, was called to the scene; after examining of the body, he ruled that the cause of death had been coronary thrombosis and that there had been no suspicious circumstances. Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died penniless and in debt. Tesla's remains were taken to the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home at Madison Ave. and 81st St. A sculptor was commissioned by Hugo Gernsback, a long -time friend and sup por ter of Tesla, to create a death mask (now displayed in the Nikola Tesla Museum). On 9 January, after learning of Tesla's death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. Tesla's entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker and other New York City hotels, was

death

transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under OAP seal.

statement, giving a short review of Tesla's achievements and the schedule for his memorial service and funeral.

Dr. John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the Tesla items in OAP custody to look for any material that could be sensitive in nature in relationship to the ongoing war at the time. After a three-day investigation, Trump concluded in his repor t that there was nothing that would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands, stating: [Tesla's] thoughts and efforts during at least the past 15 years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional charac ter of ten concerned with the production and wireless transmission of power; but did not include new, sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results.

On 10 January 1943, New York City mayor, Fiorello L a Guardia read a eulogy written by Croatian author, Louis Adamic, live over the WNYC radio. Violin pieces, "Ave Maria" and "Tamo Daleko," were played in the background.

In a box purported to contain a part of Tesla's "death ray," Trump found a 45 year-old piece of basic electrical test equipment.

On 13 January, a second service was conducted in Serbian by prominent priests of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in New York City.

A few days after Tesla's death, the information center of the Yugoslav royal government-in-exile released a

In 1952, after constant pressure from Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanovic, arrangements were finally made; Tesla's

On 12 Januar y, Tesla was given a state funeral at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, in New York Cit y. 2,0 0 0 people at tended. The funeral service was opened by Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning and concluded by the venerable Reverend Dushan J. Shukletovich, rec tor of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Sava. After the funeral, Tesla's corpse was taken to the Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New York, where it was later cremated.

39 entire estate (original papers, thousands of letters, photographs and most of Tesla's inventions including the remote-controlled boat, wireless fluorescent lamps, motors, turbines, etc.) was shipped to Belgrade. The e s t ate wa s ship p e d in 8 0 t r unk s marked N.T. In 1957, Ms. Charlotte Muzar, secretary and assistant to Tesla's nephew, the late Sava Kosanovic, delivered Tesla's ashes from the United States to Belgrade. Tesla's ashes are currently kept in the third room of the Nikola Tesla Museum, in the goldplated sphere on a marble pedestal.

Gilded urn with Tesla's ashes, in his favorite geometrical object of sphere, Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

legacy 4.1.

honors

The Nikola Tesla Museum Archive in Belgrade, Tesla on Time magazine

Tesla's legacy has endured in books, films, radio, TV, music, live theater, comics and video games. The lack of recognition received during his own lifetime has cast him as a tragic and inspirational character, well suited to dramatic fiction. The impact of the technologies invented by Tesla is a recurring theme in several types of science fiction. 1 / On Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931, Time magazine put him on its cover. The cover caption "All the world's his power house" noted his contribution to electrical power generation. He

received congratulatory letters from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering, including Albert Einstein. 2 / The Tesla Societ y, founded in 1956. 3 / Tesla, a 26 kilometers-wide crater on the far side of the moon. 4 /

2244 Tesla, a minor planet.

5 / T P P N iko la Te sla, the larg e s t power plant in Serbia. 6 / Te sla M otor s, an ele c tric c ar company.

7 / The Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. 8 / The Nikola Tesla Award 9 / The Nikola Tesla Museum Archive in Belgrade 10 / N iko la Te sla o n 10 0 S e r b ian dinar banknote.

4.2.

plaques and memorials

A monument to Nikola Tesla Niagara Falls, New York.

1 / The Nikola Tesla Memorial Centre in Smiljan op ened in 20 0 6. I t features a statue of Tesla designed by sculptor Mile Blaževic. 2 / In 2006, on the corner of Masarykova and Preradoviceva streets in in Zagreb, the monument of Tesla was unveiled. This monument was designed by Ivan Meštrovic in 1952 and was transferred from the Zagrebbased Ruzer Boškovic Institute where it had spent previous decades. 3 / A monument to Tesla was established at Niagara Falls, New York. This monument portraying Tesla reading

A monument to Nikola Tesla Zagreb, Croatia

a set of notes was sculpted by Frano Kršinic. It was presented to the United States by Yugoslavia in 1976 and is an identical copy of the monument standing in front of the Universit y of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering. 4 / A monument of Tesla standing on a por tion of an alternator, was established in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The monument was officially unveiled in 2006 on the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth. The monument was sponsored by St. George Serbian Church, Niagara Falls, and designed by Les Drysdale of Hamilton.

5 / In 2012, Jane Alcorn, president of the nonprofit group T he Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, and Matthew Inman, creator of web carto on T he Oatmeal, rais ed a tot al of $2, 220,511 - $1,370,511 fro m a campaign and $850,0 0 0 from a New York State grant - to buy the property where Wardenclyffe Tower once stood and eventually turn it into a museum. The Long Island property was purchased from the Agfa Corporation in October 2012. 6 / A commemorative plaque honoring Tesla was installed on the façade of the New Yorker Hotel by the IEEE

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