Last picture of Nikola Tesla, 1943. Tesla died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel on 7 January 1943
Mother, the very thought of you makes me feel somehow gloomy and sad, I do not know how but i do know you are not doing well.
I wish I was beside you so I can bring you a glass of water. All of these years of my service towards mankind did not bring me nothing but assaults and humiliations. This morning I got up before sunrise because I have heard again in my room something i’ve been hearing for some time now through my dream. I’ve heard a voice singing and praying in some Moorian lament or a moan. This morning i’ve chased dream from my eyes and have noticed that the voice is coming from everywhere and that I cannot locate it whether it is coming from outside or inside [him or room?].I am afraid to have lost my mind. About this I must not talk even with dr. Laynolel as I do not trust him anymore. I have heard he has visited mr. Edison 2 weeks ago.
_Thursday. 19th of november
Again I am thinking of you, mother. And I feel the same anxiety and sorrow in my whole body.
Today I shall write to Patent Office to reschedule my experiment opened for public for a week, because I must travel home to Yugoslavia, to see you. Now I know for sure you are not doing good because that voice, that saddling, I’ve heard it again completely conscious and awake. I am still healthy in head.
_Friday, 20th of November
I did not write to Patent Office. Their agent stopped by to bring me certificates.
So I spoke with him about my plans but he said he is sorry but the schedule for experiment cannot be moved, since congressmen from 20 federal states barely managed to coordinate their schedules..
So I went down by the Waterfall and said to my guys to start water turbines and to wait ready for my call tomorrow. I have decided to give humanity what belongs to it and return to Europe, to you mother. Governments of federal states are as same as the one at home. I have realised now that people depend on governments and one person cannot change the world.
But the strange voice worries me. I do know it means something and it has to do with you, with my experiment, with something transcendental.
_Saturday, the 21st of November
Mother, tomorrow I depart to Yugoslavia. Miss Nora went, by my order, to the harbour office and got me a ticket to Lisbon, from where I’ll take a train to Cihir, and from there i’ll go direct home. I think I will need at least 10 days or 2 weeks the most.
Today I entered the Congress building and on a conference of congressmen I asked for few minutes of attention.
It didn’t suit them but they agreed. I asked for a telephone and to be connected with laboratory on Niagra Waterfalls.
On my order guys started turbines and the congress hall glew in light from my electricity, ten times stronger than the regular one, just as I announced it.
Their reactions did not interest me. I stepped out of building right away after the experiment, because I did not do this for them, but for the humankind.
In the moment when I looked at the lamp and waited for “my” wireless electricity come from turbines, I sensed I am not the creator of all of this. I felt that someone or something is carrying it from the Waterfalls to congress hall and that in this law that I considered to be “my” discovery, there is something that was always there but only to me was given the inspiration to define it and explain it to humanity.
Instead of happiness and triumph, one big emptiness appeared.
I have realised I have missed something big in my life. As if I have left out something important, as if I did not comprehend something that was given to me, some equation [formula] that I was so close to get but I did not find it or did not wanted to find it. It has something to do with that maur sadsong, I am sure now.
_Sunday the 22nd of November
This letter you will never receive, mother. I do not know why I am writing to you, the one who can never ever read this.
Rest in peace mother, and do forgive me that my roads brought me so far away from you that I cannot even come to your funeral.
I am reading the telegraph with the news of you passing away and I despise people who were not ready even two years ago to realise that electricity can be transmitted wireless. Now they saw it can be done but still they will not be able to use it for centuries, because someone has burned to the ground my laboratory in the centre of the town, with all my records and technical drawings.
I have been told that the suspect is Mr. Edison.
I am so indifferent that I do not recognise myself.
Before I would be miserable, but not now, because I do know that someone is keeping all of this under control I that “my” discovery came to early for human kind. And in fact, it is not even mine. I know that someone is watching over all and has a plan, that is why I am probably so indifferent.
My boat for Lisbon departs at 11am. Car is waiting for me. This letter I shall live at your grave when I arrive.
Now I believe something I never did, that somewhere out there “you” still exist and your life did not stop for ever.
Now I feel sorry I have never wanted to socialise with Turks, because they sang the same laments as the one from my dawns.
Now I do remember they knew a lot more about this things that I come to realise just now.
In vein were all my years spent in science, when it was no good.
Pray for me up there, mother, if you can, pray with that sad maur lament, for the lost soul of your poor ignorant son.
Nikola Tesla
Just for a reality check. Tesla was on the Time magazine cover in 1931 for this 75th birthday.
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19310720,00.html
One of the photos taken recreated his wireless carbon lamp for lighting.
In 1937, when he was 83, he was hit by a cab during a walk. He was seriously injured but refused any medical treatment and was convinced he could walk it off. After that, he had to use a cane to walk and never fully recovered. His health rapidly declined and he was mostly confined to his room for his last 3 years. However, he was very sociable and entertained many guests at the hotel including King Peter of Yugoslavia in 1942.
Nikola Tesla with King Peter 1942
Nikola Tesla with Croatian boxer 1941
He was also taking news interviews until not long before his death. The portrayal of him lonely and alone in his hotel room is another lie to denigrate him.
His last patent was in 1907 and he stopped publishing not long after, because the US patent system had failed him and people were either trying to steal his ideas or bad-mouth gossip them to death. He was shunned by the physics community and the famous photo doesn’t show him with the top physicists, that is another guy. That photo is showing the top physicists of the time that considered Tesla a college dropout electric technician, not a scientist and his explanations of physical phenomena was garbage. Strange, he only talked about what he designed, built and used, the physicists only had mathematics calculations.
Physicists in front of Marconi plant
Tesla said he kept on working after ceasing to publish and said everything he developed in the 30’s and 40’s was in his head. He tried to prevent World War II, writing to many heads of state, with his weapon to end all wars. After the war started, he worked for the War Department, along with Einstein and Goddard. There is some indication both Tesla and Einstein were in Philadelphia working on the USS Eldridge but not on what the Philadelphia experiment fantasizes.
Since he worked for the War Department, his death became a matter of national security. The FBI states on their site they had nothing to do with the retrieval of Tesla’s documents and that it was the Office of Alien Property that was responsible for going into his hotel room and emptying the contents. Who do people think gave the Office of Alien Property their orders? The FBI. Plus, why was the Office of Alien Property sent in when Tesla was a naturalized citizen? Then, there is the mystery of the lost papers, as detailed on the PBS documentary Master of Lightning:
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed with the FBI resulted in the FBI putting up a site of what was turned over. Most of it is correspondence with the FBI and the denial the FBI had anything to do with holding back any papers. If you have tried FOIA, you will find the first response from the FBI is they have no such file.
https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/54b826/last_picture_of_nikola_tesla_1943_tesla_died/
The Underappreciated Nikola Tesla
Because life is often unfair, great fame and great recognition do not always go hand in hand with great accomplishments. History is chock full of figures who played oversized roles in shaping key events in their days – events that influence our very lives to this day – but who are widely unrecognized or are greatly underappreciated. Following are forty fascinating things about some of history’s underappreciated people.
The Serb Who Came to America With Four Cents and Big Dreams
In 1884, Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), a Serb from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, arrived in America with four cents in his pocket, some poems, and blueprints for making a flying machine. The flying machine was never built, but by 1900 Tesla had revolutionized the world by effectively harnessing the power of electricity.
Electricity had been around for some time, but it took Tesla to make the things that made electricity an everyday part of everyday life. Among other things, he invented fluorescent lights, electric generators, the FM radio, spark plugs, remote controls, robots, and the Tesla Coil that is used to transmit radio and TV broadcasts. He was also a… character, one could say, with quirks that made him the epitome of a made-for-Hollywood mad scientist.
Getting Shafted by Thomas Edison
With a record 1093 patents to his name, Thomas Edison, “The Wizard of Menlo Park”, is often described as the world’s most prolific inventors. In reality, most of Edison’s inventions were either by people he hired and whose inventions he then patented in his own name, or by strangers who had nothing to do with him, but whose inventions Edison simply stole.
Nikola Tesla was among those in the former category. Shortly after Tesla’s arrival in the US, Edison hired the brilliant but naïve new immigrant to redesign his electrical generators and perfect his light bulb, promising him $50,000 if he did so. Tesla did so, but when he asked for the $50,000 he had been promised, Edison laughed it off, telling him:
“Tesla, you just don’t understand our American humor. When you become a full fledged American, you will appreciate an American joke“.
Switching Over to Edison’s Rival
After Thomas Edison screwed him over, Nikola Tesla took his talents to Edison’s greatest business rival, George Westinghouse. Nowadays, alternating current (AC) lights up our homes and workplaces, and powers up our appliances through wall sockets. By contrast, direct current (DC), is relegated mostly to batteries.
In the nineteenth century, however, the issue was undecided, and powerful interests fiercely competed to decide whether AC or DC would dominate the world. AC was supported by Westinghouse, who pushed it as the best means to bring electricity to the masses. On DC’s side was Thomas Edison. There was serious money at stake, and in hindsight, considering that Tesla’s talents settled the issue in favor of AC, Edison might have had cause to regret screwing his former employee over.
Paying Edison Back
Direct current (DC) is crappy when compared to alternating current (AC), because DC is weaker and can only be transported short distances. However, Thomas Edison had already invested millions in DC, and he was not about to let the upstart AC flush that investment down the drain if he could help it.
Unfortunately for Edison, the former employee whom he had screwed over and in whose face he had laughed, ended up playing a key role in flushing that DC investment away. Nikola Tesla, working for AC advocate George Westinghouse, basically designed the modern AC electricity supply system that ensured its easy delivery and use. In so doing, Tesla ensured the defeat of Thomas Edison and his DC plan in what came to be known as
“The War of the Currents“.
The Quirky Genius
In his personal life, Nikola Tesla was an… “unusual” character. In addition to being a celibate, he hated human hair, jewelry, and anything that could not be divided by three. He had to count his steps to make sure that they were divisible by three – otherwise, or if he lost count, he would have to do his journey all over again.
Tesla also had a phobia of round things. So powerful was his fear of round items, that he once got a fever from looking at a peach.
The Death Ray and WMDs
Tesla also claimed to have invented a death ray that could explode or vaporize things at a considerable distance. Many suspected that he was responsible for the 1908 Tunguska Event, which flattened thousands of square kilometers of Siberian tundra with an explosion 3000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
In reality, Tesla had nothing to do with the Tunguska Event, and there is no evidence that he had ever invented a usable death ray. However, after Tesla’s death, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had all his papers seized, out of fear that others might use them to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Revolutionizing the World
In addition to his key role in developing readily usable alternating current – a scientific contribution that by itself revolutionized the world – Nikola Tesla had a long list of other major inventions. He had over 700 patents in 26 countries, that included: X-ray devices; electric generators; electric arc lamps; fluorescent lights; spark plugs; robots; remote controls, bladeless turbines, the Tesla Coil; and FM radio.
Indeed, the modern world as we know it would be impossible without Tesla. As the American Institute of Electrical Engineers put it:
“Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our towns would be dark“.
The Underappreciated Visionary
In addition to his practical inventions, Nikola Tesla was a visionary who foresaw inventions that were beyond the state of science and engineering in his day, but which he predicted would become a reality someday. He foresaw cell phones, artificial intelligence, lasers, vertical lift aircraft, the wireless transmission of energy, and radar. Take radar: its inventor Emile Girardeau credited his work to plans drawn by Tesla decades earlier, to transmit radio signals and receive their reflections on a fluorescent screen.
Unfortunately, while a great genius and inventor – vastly superior to the more famous Thomas Edison – Tesla was a poor businessman. An outsider who spoke with an accent, Tesla got taken advantage of repeatedly by shrewder entrepreneurs. So while Edison capitalized on his inventions and those of others to live and die in the lap of luxury, Tesla died in poverty in 1943, flitting between a series of NYC hotels, and leaving behind unpaid bills. https://historycollection.com/the-underappreciated-nikola-tesla-and-other-under-recognized-historic-figures/8/
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Top 10 inventions of NIKOLA TESLA PART 1
The only scientist thought to give free electricity all over to the humans; is none other then Nikola Tesla but he didn’t get any prizes which he deserved but he won many other than awards.
The top ten invention of Nikola Tesla’s over his 300 patents are here.
10. The Tesla coil.
This is the coil which Nikola Tesla made to to transmit the electricity without wires and this invention has two coils a primary one and the secondary each coil has its own capacitor like a battery; the coils are connected to a spark gap which is just open air. In results the Tesla coil can generate this can shoot lightning bolts, send electric current through the body and create electron winds; anyway this tesla’s invention is not in in today’s plan as he thinked of using this as alternate for wires but it is used for entertainment purpose and can be seen in places like science centres although people may not use it; but this made scientist to understand the nature of electricity.
9. SHADOW GRAPHS.
Some evidences that Tesla knows about electricity before the inventor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. This invention include which is destroyed by the fire occurred on his lab in 1895 shortly before the inventor discovered that ( Conrad) Tesla is considered to be the first person in America to take an x-ray picture shadow graph of a foot with the shoe on it and send it with the letter to Conrad, he congratulated him on his Discovery and Conrad road to Tesla that she took A remarkable clear shadow graph in which Shadow graphs are mainly used to who developed the modern day x-ray.
8. Neon lamp.
Of course the fluorescent and neon lights are not discovered by Tesla but he contributed a lot for it to the advancement of both in the time no one is working with cathode rays, where electrons observed in vacuum tube like neon lights, really came up with practical application for the technology Tesla saw this opportunity and started experimenting with running electrical practicals through gases and he developed four different types of lights she converted black light into visible light using a phosphorescent substance that he created he also found particle use for such a technology when we created lamps and neon. So we must thanks for the moving star in our sky; I’m joking! Because neon lights are used in Aero planes.
7. RADIO IMPROVEMENTS.
Let me be clear the inventor of radio still a mystery; but in 1895 Tesla was getting ready to transmit a radio signal 50 miles before he could do that this lab burnt down and it delayed the testing in the same time in England and Italian man named Guglielmo Marconi was working on wireless telegraphy he was granted with a pan 10 on England in 1896 for this device this system was much different than the one Tesla built; because he used transmit over long distance such as the Atlantic Tesla’s invention would use multiple circuits, which would make it much stronger Tesla submitted his patent in 1897 on the United States and it was granted in 1900 and when Marconi is radio patent in in 1900 to the US office, it was turned down because it was too similar to Tesla’s and the undeterred, Marconi started his own company called Marconi wireless telegraph company limited and it had powerful backers including Tesla’s rival people. In 1904 without giving a clear reason, the patent office reversed their decision and said the Marconi’s patent was valid, making him inventor of radio and Marconi won the Nobel prize in 1911 and in 1915, Tesla sued Marconi’s corporation at that point of life Tesla was too poor to take a major Corporation. the case wasn’t settled until a few months after test last death in 1943 when the US supreme court upheld test last patent how were the reason for that is during that time Marconi suing the the United States power. What do you think? this story is bigger than current was right!
6. THE MAGNIFYING TRANSMITTER.
Tesla first thought that he would do that in higher altitudes and after getting some funds he setup a lab in Colorado spring in 1899 there he build the most power full Tesla coil called THE MAGNIFYING TRANSMITTER in which it had 3 Tesla coils and over 52 feet diameter and generated over millions of electric volt which shot a lightening bolt of 130 feet and that was the biggest lightening ever man made in that time and also the problem was Tesla was too ambitious and ahead of his time because the wireless electricity wouldn’t be developed until the mid 2010 or 2015 so this vision provided him a great move i.e free electricity for all the people and after finical back out the project was drop out in early 1915, this project also ruined Tesla making him a bankrupt.
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