Nikola Tesla is a scientist, inventor, researcher. He invented the alternating current system and the alternating current motor we now use, high frequency generators and transformers. He, long before Marconi and Popov, invented a radio transmitter and a mast antenna.
Tesla is the author of more than 800 inventions, although he patented only 300. But he considered all this only a prelude to subsequent great discoveries. He wanted to develop a way to transmit energy over a distance on an industrial scale, receive energy from the world space, and also control geophysical processes using resonance. Unfortunately, he failed to realize all these ideas. But the scientific legacy of Nikola Tesla is enormous. Many scientists and researchers turn to him and will turn to him.
Tesla in 1879 at the age of twenty-three.
Nikola Tesla after arriving in the USA. 1885
Nikola Tesla in 1894 
Mark Twain and Joseph Jefferson in Tesla's laboratory in 1894. Between them is a blurry image of Tesla himself.
For the first time, a fluorescent lamp was introduced that gave light. 1894
Robert Underwood demonstrates an experiment with a high-frequency current that passes through the human body and lights an incandescent lamp. Nikola Tesla at the switch. 1895
The same experiment is carried out by Mark Twain. 1895
Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich's book, "The Theory of Natural Philosophy", in front of the helical coil of his high-frequency transformer in East Houston St. 46 laboratory, New York. 1896
One of Tesla's amazing experiments. Light arises in a fluorescent lamp, right in the scientist's hand. The frequency of the current passing in the lamp and through the human body is several million hertz! 1898
Another experience. Tesla takes the lamp a few meters away from the generator, but it continues to glow! 1898
The same experience.
Tesla and its asynchronous motors. 1898
Tesla demonstrates the "wireless" transmission of electricity at the Houston Street Laboratory in March 1899.
Tesla is experimenting with high voltage and high frequency currents. The current passes through his body, lights the lamp in his left hand, and does no harm to the scientist. 1899
The glow of nitrogen in the atmosphere. This result is obtained by discharging an electrical generator at twelve million volts. electrical discharge, with a frequency of one hundred thousand hertz, excites inert nitrogen, causing it to burn with oxygen. Tesla sits in front of the generator. 1899
Tesla near a transmitter in Colorado Springs capable of transmitting millions of volts of electricity over a distance without wires. 1899
Tesla peeks out of a laboratory door in Colorado Springs. On the fencing rope is written: “Danger! Do not enter!" 1899
Tesla and an unknown woman. 1900
Tesla is 48 years old. 1904
Banquet in honor of Mr. Henry Clews, newly elected President of the American Citizens Union. Tesla is second from the right. 1910
Tesla is 59 years old. 1915
Banquet of the Institute of Radio Engineers (now part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in New York on April 24, 1915. Many prominent figures in the development of radio took part in it. Nikola Tesla is standing, seventh from the right. 1915
Tesla shows a photograph of his laboratory with a discharge of electricity passing through it. 1916
Tesla demonstrates his inventions. 1916
Tesla works in his office at 8 West 40th Street. 1916
Tesla demonstrates one of his generators to a patent attorney. 1938
Tesla chats with a newspaper reporter after one of his annual press conferences. 1939
Tesla talks to boxer Fritzi Zivic at a dinner at the New Yorker Hotel. 1941
The last photo of the Lightning Master. 1943
Nikola Tesla was certainly an eccentric scientist, but many believe that his inventions were more outstanding than those of Alexander Graham Bell or Thomas Edison. His electric cars, wild imagination and eccentric style have become a symbol of the "crazy genius".
1. Wireless transmission of electricity
About 120 years ago, at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Tesla demonstrated the wireless transmission of electricity by lighting a series of phosphor light bulbs in a process called electrodynamic induction. He dreamed that one day such technology would help us transmit electricity to long distances in the atmosphere, providing remote areas with the necessary energy for comfortable living.
Now, more than a century later, major companies like Intel and Sony are interested in applying non-radiative power transfer to things like mobile phones so that we can charge batteries without power wires.
2. X-ray
Tesla's research in electromagnetism has helped radiologists around the world see human anatomy without having to rip open his stomach. However, in the late 1880s, this idea seemed quite crazy.
Although the discovery of X-rays is attributed to the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, it was Tesla, in his experiments with this technology eight years before Roentgen, who drew attention to some of the dangers of using radiation on human flesh.
3. Ray of death
In the 1930s, Nikola Tesla is said to have invented a particle beam weapon called the "death ray". In theory, the device could generate an intensely directed beam of energy that could be used to destroy enemy planes, armies and other things. However, the "death ray" was never released by Tesla, although he tried to sell it to various military units.
4. Robotics
Tesla envisioned that in the future, an entire race of robots would be able to safely and efficiently do the work of humans. In 1898, he demonstrated the radio-controlled boat he invented, which is considered by many to be the "birth of robotics." He predicted that soon the world would be filled with smart machines, robots, various sensors and autonomous systems.
5. Machine that causes an earthquake
In the same 1898, Tesla announced that he had developed an oscillation generator that shook the building and everything that was next to it. The device itself weighed about a kilogram, but the scientist was able to adjust the oscillation time at such a frequency that each small vibration added more energy to the wave bends of the building. With enough small jolts, even the largest building could be shaken apart.
Realizing the potential danger of his invention, he smashed the generator with a hammer and asked his employees, in which case, to declare complete ignorance of the causes of the earthquake.
Inventor Nikola Tesla is called the "Leonardo Da Vinci of the 20th century" for a reason, because his developments and conceptual inventions surprise many of us even today, when 2014 is outside the window. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the most incredible and mysterious inventions of Nikola Tesla in the continuation of the post.
perpetual motion machine
If you rummage around on dubious sites that sell all sorts of nonsense, such as “a trap for Santa Claus” or “a magic ball for communicating with the other world”, then sooner or later you will definitely come across a relatively inexpensive “Tesla eternal energy generator”. No need to be a simpleton - it's a scam. If the scientist really invented a source of eternal energy, then we are unlikely to know about it, since he burned his entire archive under the pretext "humanity is not yet ready for the greatness of my inventions." However, a story has come down to us that in 1931, Nikola conducted a curious experiment. Instead of a traditional internal combustion engine, he installed a small box with two rods sticking out of it in a Pierce-Arrow car. After that, the machine worked without recharging for a whole week. Eyewitnesses say that Tesla managed to disperse the car up to 150 kilometers per hour. And this is hard to believe.
Wireless transmission of electricity at a distance
In the spring of 1908, Tesla wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times: "Even now, my wireless power plants can turn any part of the globe into an uninhabitable area." It is unlikely that the scientist was bluffing. In any case, regardless of whether it is true or fiction, but in the summer - June 30 of the same year, something incredible happened in Siberia. Most naively believe that a meteorite fell there, later called "Tunguska". But one of the hypotheses says that there was no fall. And the explosion is a consequence of Nikola's experiments, which consisted in the transfer of energy over long distances. At the same time, supporters of the fantastic assumption argue that the version has evidence. As an option, here it is: on the eve of the fall " Tunguska meteorite”, in the skies of Canada and Northern Europe, the clouds suddenly became silvery and seemed to pulsate. This one to one coincides with the stories of eyewitnesses who previously observed Tesla's experiments in his laboratory in Colorado Springs.
Superweapon
In 1958, the American agency DARPA took on a project called "Swing". The implementation of this operation took almost a decade and about 30 million of the most convertible currency in the world. The project seems to have failed, and scientists, together with the warriors, classified its results. However, information was leaked to the press that the Americans were trying to recreate the mysterious "death rays" that Tesla had invented. For the sake of truth, it is worth noting that twenty years before the start of the experiment, when the great scientist was still alive, he offered the US government a superweapon capable of destroying 10,000 aircraft from a distance of 400 kilometers. It is strange that then - on the eve of the Second World War, this invention remained unclaimed by the Americans. The "death rays" are shrouded in a veil of secrecy, but it is known that it was based on a kind of radio frequency oscillator - a device that used the Earth's atmosphere as a source of colossal energy. By the way, there are rumors that, unlike the United States, the USSR became interested in technology, and it seems that they even bought drawings from Tesla for 25 thousand dollars. And, who knows, maybe in the invention of lasers, which are now actively used in both secular and military industries, there is a fraction of the genius of the great Serb.
Philadelphia experiment
Another mystery closely associated with the name of the great scientist and found in science fiction literature and cinema is called the Philadelphia Experiment. They say that before the Second World War, Tesla did cooperate with the militarists, in particular, with the US Navy. For them, Nikola developed a project that was supposed to create the technology of "invisibility" of the ships of the Navy for enemy radars. And it seemed that literally a year was not enough for him to conduct an experimental confirmation of his theory: in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, in January 1943, the heart of a genius stopped beating. However, ten months after the death of the creator of the technology, the Americans seemed to put Tesla's idea into practice. They managed, with the help of Nikola's generators, to create an electromagnetic shield around the destroyer Eldridge. But, again, according to rumors, the ship not only disappeared from the radar, but also became invisible to human eyes - it simply disappeared. The ship was found two hundred kilometers from the place of the experiment. At the same time, the crew members of the Eldridge received significant mental disorders.
Parapsychology and clairvoyance
Believe it or not, Tesla's contemporaries were not surprised when they passed from mouth to mouth the story that Tesla takes his inventions from somewhere outside - either from parallel space, or from the future. This, of course, looks like a ridiculous joke, but the scientist himself has repeatedly made very unexpected statements about this. For example, a letter from a scientist to a friend has been preserved, where he writes that, while studying high-frequency currents, he stumbled upon something fantastic: “I discovered a thought. And soon you will be able to personally read your poems to Homer, and I will discuss my discoveries with Archimedes himself. In any case, even if we discard mysticism, it is still impossible not to note that Tesla's genius was a mystery to his contemporaries and remains a mystery to us descendants. Where did he get his ideas? How did you achieve understanding of seemingly meaningless things? How could he get to the bottom of the forces hidden from human eyes. It seems that in his research, he really was ahead of his time. By the way, the famous Indian philosopher Vivekananda, who visited the United States in order to find out the possibility of unifying all existing religions, visited Nikola Tesla in his laboratory in New York in 1906. After the meeting, he wrote a letter to his Indian friend Alasing, where he enthusiastically spoke about his acquaintance: “This man is different from all Western people. He demonstrated his experiments with electricity, which he treats as a living being, with whom he speaks and gives orders ... There is no doubt that he has a spirituality of the highest level and is able to recognize all our gods.
In general, the truth is gracefully intertwined with fiction, and the mysteries of a hundred years ago remain unanswered. And, perhaps, in fact, the time has not yet come for us to understand and comprehend the full depth of the great genius of Nikla Tesla. Wait and see.
A newly discovered set of original drawings by Nikola Tesla shows a multiplication card that contains all the numbers in an easy-to-use system. The drawings were discovered in an antique shop in central Phoenix Arizona by local artist Abe Zukka. They are believed to have been created in last years Tesla Free Energy Laboratories, Wardenclyffe. It is assumed that the manuscript contains many solutions to unanswered questions in mathematics. The sketches were hidden in a small chest with numerous other drawings and manuscripts ranging from hand-held technology devices to free energy systems, many with inscriptions scrawled over them. Some parts are already familiar to the public, but some others are not. First of all, it is a multiplication card or a mathematical spiral. Zukka made several copies and showed drawings around different thinkers, dreamers and mathematicians. A few days later, a local math teacher high school Joey Grether worked to decipher the system and had several breakthroughs. Grether suggests that the Spiral not only explores multiplication as an intertwined web, but that it "offers a comprehensive visual representation of how all numbers self-organize into 12 positions of compositional ability". "This device allows us to see numbers as patterns, the formation of primes, doubles, highly composite numbers, multiplication and division, and several other systems, I believe, that have yet to be discovered." The chart itself is very intuitive, allowing students to see how all the numbers work together on a 12-position spiral. 12 or 12x (multiples of 12) is the highest composite system, so we have 12 months in a year, 12 inches in feet, 24 hours in a day, etc. 12 can be divided into 2, 3, 4, and 6. So, all can be multiplied by 12. For every 12 numbers, there is a chance that 4 numbers will come first. They fall into positions (count clocks) 5, 7, 11 and 1. Tesla is famous for the quote: "If you only knew the magnificence of 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe." It turns out that when the device is tested, the digital roots of the numbers in positions 3, 6, 9 and 12 constantly repeat the same sequence of 3, 6, 9! Is this what Tesla was also talking about? Self-organization of numbers and their digital roots? It's hard to say, but Grether seems to think so. “This breakthrough is phenomenal. If we could invite students around the world to use this technique, play with it, and help figure out how to use it, we could overcome our cultural aversion to math. Instead of memorizing the multiplication table, we could learn the positions of the numbers and better understand how they work.” Juan Zapata, one of Mr. G's students, also thinks so. "I used to say that I'm bad at math... because that's what everyone says, but now, me, man, it's too easy." There is another fact about Tesla that makes it interesting. The chart is dated 12/12/12! 1912. Greg and his students want to make December 12 a national holiday. So, take 12 bags, get a dozen donuts, and note the 12x power.
Nikola Tesla is a scientist, inventor, researcher. He invented the alternating current system and the alternating current motor we now use, high frequency generators and transformers. He, long before Marconi and Popov, invented a radio transmitter and a mast antenna.
Tesla is the author of more than 800 inventions, although he patented only 300. But he considered all this only a prelude to subsequent great discoveries. He wanted to develop a way to transmit energy over a distance on an industrial scale, receive energy from the world space, and also control geophysical processes using resonance. Unfortunately, he failed to realize all these ideas. But the scientific legacy of Nikola Tesla is enormous. Many scientists and researchers turn to him and will turn to him.
Tesla in 1879 at the age of twenty-three.
Nikola Tesla after arriving in the USA. 1885
Nikola Tesla in 1894
Mark Twain and Joseph Jefferson in Tesla's laboratory in 1894. Between them is a blurry image of Tesla himself.
For the first time, a fluorescent lamp was introduced that gave light. 1894
Robert Underwood demonstrates an experiment with a high-frequency current that passes through the human body and lights an incandescent lamp. Nikola Tesla at the switch. 1895
The same experiment is carried out by Mark Twain. 1895
Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich's book, "The Theory of Natural Philosophy", in front of the helical coil of his high-frequency transformer in East Houston St. 46 laboratory, New York. 1896
One of Tesla's amazing experiments. Light arises in a fluorescent lamp, right in the scientist's hand. The frequency of the current passing in the lamp and through the human body is several million hertz! 1898
Another experience. Tesla takes the lamp a few meters away from the generator, but it continues to glow! 1898
The same experience.
Tesla and its asynchronous motors. 1898
Tesla demonstrates the "wireless" transmission of electricity at the Houston Street Laboratory in March 1899.
Tesla is experimenting with high voltage and high frequency currents. The current passes through his body, lights the lamp in his left hand, and does no harm to the scientist. 1899
The glow of nitrogen in the atmosphere. This result is obtained by discharging an electrical generator at twelve million volts. An electrical discharge with a frequency of one hundred thousand hertz excites inert nitrogen, causing it to burn with oxygen. Tesla sits in front of the generator. 1899
Tesla near a transmitter in Colorado Springs capable of transmitting millions of volts of electricity over a distance without wires. 1899
Tesla peeks out of a laboratory door in Colorado Springs. On the fencing rope is written: “Danger! Do not enter!" 1899
Tesla and an unknown woman. 1900
Tesla is 48 years old. 1904
Banquet in honor of Mr. Henry Clews, newly elected President of the American Citizens Union. Tesla is second from the right. 1910
Tesla is 59 years old. 1915
Banquet of the Institute of Radio Engineers (now part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in New York on April 24, 1915. Many prominent figures in the development of radio took part in it. Nikola Tesla is standing, seventh from the right. 1915
Tesla shows a photograph of his laboratory with a discharge of electricity passing through it. 1916
Tesla demonstrates his inventions. 1916
Tesla works in his office at 8 West 40th Street. 1916
Tesla demonstrates one of his generators to a patent attorney. 1938
Tesla chats with a newspaper reporter after one of his annual press conferences. 1939
Tesla talks to boxer Fritzi Zivic at a dinner at the New Yorker Hotel. 1941
The last photo of the Lightning Master. 1943
