Nikola Tesla
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Posted by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman Dec 4, 2007 |
I have been captivated with Nikola Tesla since my first encounter with a Tesla Coil at the ripe age of ten. What baffled me then still bewilders me now - that for being someone that was so influential on modern day living (he has been termed the 'inventor of the twentieth century'), so brilliant a thinker and revolutionary for his or any time, he is largely unknown or skimmed over, societally speaking.
As an example, nearly every schoolchild can list at least two of Edison's inventions, but most have never even heard of Tesla, despite his unfathomable contributions to robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics and theoretical physics.
His eventual ostracism from the scientific community was predominately due to his style of thinking, which was based more in the love of discovery than for any capitalistic merit. Many of his achievements continue to be used (and admittedly misused) to support alternate sciences, UFO theories, and new age belief.
Regardless of any prejudice that the scientific community at large held towards Tesla, the fact that he was arguably one of the most brilliant thinkers of our age should have gone much further insofar as simply dismissing that rabbit hole completely.
One video in particular which effectively chronicles the highlights and little known facts regarding this provocative thinker can be found here:
The MIssing Secrets of Nikola Tesla (Parts 1-4)
Other interesting videos about Tesla can be found here:
Tesla - The Philadelphia Experiment and Time Travel