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NIKOLA TESLA A man from time or space? by: Quaedan X Nikkols

Nikola Tesla and his famous "Tesla Coil" in Colorado Springs.

The site of the Tesla lab was in a place known today as Pikes Peak Park on east Pikes Peak Avenue. I have scoured the area with metal detectors and other equipment for any tiny traces of his work but found nothing. This wasn't so surprising to me as it happened a very long time ago!

When I was growing up it was well known that Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of radio. Actually, Marconi was the first to send a message from one place to another by radio transmission. Nikola Tesla had, prior to that time, sent control signals to a model boat in a tank of water at Madison Square Garden and - in addition to providing the control of the boat's operation by radio - sent the power that made the boat move through the water by wireless as well! Few people could see the significance of these differences. Finally, in 1946, the courts recognized Tesla as the true inventor of radio transmission. A radio transmitter of that type was similar to the circuits used today for communication. We still don't send "power" through the air because of interference with other frequencies and services. This was done by Tesla when there was no other radio signals in existence, so, there was no interference concern. Tesla demonstrated the wireless transmission of power by lighting a panel of fluorescent tubes fifteen miles away with no wires. For this experiment, he invented the fluorescent lamp that is used today because the incandescent bulb of Thomas Edison was far to inefficient to perform this feat.

The Tesla coil is one of Tesla's more well known inventions. It is essentially a high-frequency air-core transformer. It takes the standard 120vAC, to several thousand volts and then, through a driver circuit steps it up to an extremely high voltage. Voltages can climb well above 1,000,000 volts and are discharged in the form of electrical flames. Tesla himself got arcs up to 100,000,000 volts, but I don't think that has been duplicated by anyone else. Tesla coils are unique in the fact that they create extremely powerful electrical fields. Large coils have been known to wirelessly light up florescent lights up to 50 feet away, and because of the fact that it is an electric field that goes directly into the light and doesn't use the electrodes, even burned-out florescent lights will glow. This has been duplicated in more recent years by amateur radio transmitters and other forms of "RF" power devices. It is also the phenomenon that built the "new" coiled fluorescent lamp bulbs that work on the principle of gas filled tube ignited by an RF oscillator located in the base of the bulb.

I have long been an admirer of the great inventor Nikola Tesla. Here was a man whose genius was far beyond the great minds of his day. He had an intellect that, at times, seemed almost unearthly. I suppose this is why some have speculated that such a remarkable individual could not have sprung from the bosom of mother Earth, but instead was the product of extraterrestrial intervention.

I must admit that for a while the idea that Nikola Tesla was not of this planet held a certain appeal to me. It would certainly answer a lot of questions about this enigmatic man - but of course it would also create even more questions that would be impossible to answer in my lifetime. So I was finally left with the simplest explanation on the true origins of Nikola Tesla. I have concluded he was an extraordinary human, the likes thereof we see so rarely.

My days of schooling was mute on any mention of Tesla or his great achievements. In public, only the Tesla coil stands out in honor of its namesake, but few know of the person for whom it is christened. Textbooks held no place on their pages for this great man, and teachers rarely uttered his name. A well known and recognized local ham radio operator in my home town occasionally poked disrespect at Tesla as having been the "mad man in the mountains." He must not have realized that his radio transmitter was only setting on his table because of Nikola Tesla. Thankfully, some have come to recognize the great injustice that has been done to Tesla and have found a place in some classrooms to teach his history. I think it would be safe to say that Nikola Tesla was the man who invented the 20th Century.

We now know that Tesla was interested in and experimented with antigravity, invisibility and even time travel. It's no surprise that Tesla in his day would not speak openly of these kinds of interests, after all, even today these areas of study still come under fire by some "mainstream" scientists, who refuse to use their imaginations and intellect, and scorn such interests with terms such as "bad science" and quackery.

With his experiments in high-voltage electricity and magnetic fields, Tesla discovered that time and space could be breached, or warped, creating a "doorway" that could lead to other time frames. But with this monumental discovery, Tesla also discovered, through personal experience, the very real dangers inherent with time travel.

Tesla's first brush with time travel came in March 1895. A reporter for the New York Herald wrote on March 13 that he came across the inventor in a small café, looking shaken after being hit by 3.5 million volts. "I am afraid," said Tesla, "that you won't find me a pleasant companion tonight. The fact is I was almost killed today. The spark jumped three feet through the air and struck me here on the right shoulder. If my assistant had not turned off the current instantly it might have been the end of me."

Tesla, on contact with the resonating electromagnetic charge, found himself outside his time-frame reference. He reported that he could see the immediate past - present and future, all at once. But he was paralyzed within the electromagnetic field, unable to help himself. His assistant, by turning off the current, released Tesla before any permanent damage was done. A repeat of this very incident would occur years later during the Philadelphia Experiment. Unfortunately, the sailors involved were left outside their time-frame reference for too long with disastrous results.

One thing that contributed to the obscurity of Tesla in schools is the fact that he was an immigrant from Serbia and not a natural born citizen of the United States. While this shouldn't make any difference to anyone, it probably did. Another issue was his on going battle with New Jersey born and raised Thomas Edison who, has always been credited with the invention of the light bulb (no matter how inefficient). Edison began wiring parts of New York with DC current and, would have continued were it not for Tesla who, demonstrated why AC was far better for the job. Today Tesla's transformers hang on power poles across the world. Not to get too technical but the reason for the difference in the two systems was that DC would lose power when a neighbor or someone in another room turned on a bulb. Much like in a car or truck the other lamps would become dimmer. With all of our appliances today that system would not and could not work. Tesla saw this decades before there were all the other home appliances to be concerned about. Just the same, arguing with a great inventor like Edison was not a good way to win public praise - especially when you were right.

In addition to the myriad of inventions that enhance our everyday life Tesla's secret research continues in basements and barns to this very day. Time travel experiments would continue on in the hands of others who were not as concerned with humanity as Tesla. We are left with rumors and speculations on who may have become the heirs of Tesla's research -- hopefully, someday these secrets will be revealed once and for all.

TESLA HOLDING HIS WIRELESS LIGHT BULB THAT WORKED VERY MUCH LIKE A MODERN FLOURESCENT TUBE.

AC MOTOR TESLA COIL RADIO REMOTE POWER CONTROL IMPROVED LIGHTING

During his lifetime, Tesla invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla induction motor, the Tesla coil, and developed the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system that included a motor and transformer, and 3-phase electricity. (System in use today world wide) Tesla is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; since the Supreme Court overturned Guglielmo Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Nikola Tesla's earlier patents. When an engineer (Otis Pond) once said to Tesla, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you" regarding Marconi's radio system, Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." The Tesla coil, invented in 1891, is still used in radio and television sets and other electronic equipment.

Nikola Tesla - Mystery Invention Ten years after patenting a successful method for producing alternating current, Nikola Tesla claimed the invention of an electrical generator that would not consume any fuel. This invention has been lost to the public. Tesla stated about his invention that he had harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. In total, Nikola Telsa was granted more than one hundred patents and invented countless unpatented inventions.

Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse In 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company, bought the patent rights to Tesla's system of dynamos, transformers and motors. Westinghouse used Tesla's alternating current system to light the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla was Thomas Edison's rival at the end of the 19th century. In fact, he was more famous than Edison throughout the 1890's. His invention of poly phase electric power earned him worldwide fame and fortune. At his zenith he was an intimate of poets and scientists, industrialists and financiers. Yet Tesla died destitute, having lost both his fortune and scientific reputation. During his fall from notoriety to obscurity, Tesla created a legacy of genuine invention and prophecy that still fascinates today.

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