Not at all odd…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Nikola Tesla
III-righ-III — 19 years ago(December 22, 2006 08:52 AM)
It's not at all odd that almost no one has written anything on this board. He is very little known, even though many of his inventions pushed the world significantly, in terms of technological progress and even as I'm writing this I can't help thinking that I might not be able to write this at all if it wasn't for him. I just don't understand how a man like him, a household name in his time, a scientific genius, can get lost in time, can fade away like that, and well, be practically forgotten.
I cannot count the times I have heard the expression, "tesla coil" or tesla this, or tesla that, from my own physics teacher, to articles and television programmes, but never, ever has anyone taken the time to just, at least, add why or where the name tesla was derived from. It is just one of those things that you have to do yourself, and now, of course, thanks to the internet it's easy to look up anything including a long forgotten scientist. But why is it so? Why can everyone recognise the name Thomas Alva Edison, or for that matter Albert Einstein, but not Nikola Tesla? I have been trying to find an answer ever since I learned of his long past existence, and it seems to me that it's an amalgam of different things that all play a part in his disposition to the margins of science and historical accounts.
Though, I will not let this turn into a discussion with myself and therefore will leave you, if anyone, out there to contemplate on this matter. My conclusions are my own and will not be forced on anyone, but the fact remains; without this guy, we would not be where we are today and he certainly deserves the credit for that. -
phonenumberofthebeast — 19 years ago(February 26, 2007 12:52 AM)
Thomas Edison has lasted in history because he was a businessman who worked in the real world. Nikola Tesla faded away because he lived in theory, in his isolated labs. He became a legend, and then, eventually, an archetype. He was t5b4he original "mad scientist" (want proof? Whenever you see one in the movies, they're always surrounded by Tesla coils).
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aurelie_ledoyen — 17 years ago(July 27, 2008 04:36 PM)
Tesla was a patented inventor who also had a moral code. There were instances where he could have sold out but decided not to. He may or may no have been the only one.
My only guess as to why this genius on so many levels is not a household name like Edison or Einstein is for that reason. Greed did not run through his veins and he never comercialized his products. He was a true altruist.
This is an excerpt from "Tesla's views on Electricity and the War", Electrical Experimenter, Volume 5, Number 4, by Secor, H. Winfield:
Tesla made his first million at the age of forty, but gave away nearly all his royalties on future innovations. Tesla was rather financially inept, but he was almost entirely unconcerned with material wealth. He ripped up a Westinghouse contract that would have made him the world's first billionaire, in part because of the implications it would have on his future vision of free power, and in part because it would run Westinghouse out of business, and Tesla had no desire to deal with the creditors.
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lukekywalkrawakenz — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 08:56 AM)
To the OP, the Victor's make up history to suit THEM-NOT the innovators who threaten legacyEdison and Westinghouse did their best to discredit TESLA, almost like BIG OIL hires merchants of doubt on fossil fuels impact on climate change.
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