The Naked Scientists
  • Login
  • Register
  • Podcasts
      • The Naked Scientists
      • eLife
      • Naked Genetics
      • Naked Astronomy
      • In short
      • Naked Neuroscience
      • Ask! The Naked Scientists
      • Question of the Week
      • Archive
      • Video
      • SUBSCRIBE to our Podcasts
  • Articles
      • Science News
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • Answers to Science Questions
  • Get Naked
      • Donate
      • Do an Experiment
      • Science Forum
      • Ask a Question
  • About
      • Meet the team
      • Our Sponsors
      • Site Map
      • Contact us

User menu

  • Login
  • Register
  • Home
  • Help
  • Search
  • Tags
  • Member Map
  • Recent Topics
  • Login
  • Register
  1. Naked Science Forum
  2. On the Lighter Side
  3. Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors
  4. Nikola Tesla
« previous next »
  • Print
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Nikola Tesla

  • 23 Replies
  • 54747 Views
  • 0 Tags

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline GBSB (OP)

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • 99
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
    • Modern Science of Biomechanics
Nikola Tesla
« on: 31/12/2006 21:57:14 »
"The year of 2006 was celebrated by UNESCO as the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, scientist (1856-1943)..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Logged
 



Offline huwston

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • 26
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #1 on: 09/01/2007 00:55:02 »
what a f*ckin eda that guy was.
Logged
KClO3 is not your friend.
 

jolly

  • Guest
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #2 on: 14/05/2007 01:37:18 »
hey come on: "Contemporary researchers of Tesla have deemed him "the man who invented the twentieth century"[7] and "the patron saint of modern electricity."
Logged
 

Offline science_guy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • 701
  • Activity:
    0%
  • I'm right there... inside neilep's head!
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #3 on: 17/05/2007 15:46:33 »
many people credit him with the invention of electricity, rather than Thomas Edison.
Logged
_________________________________________________________________________________________

I would engage you in a battle of wits, but it is against my moral code to attack the unarmed.

he's back!!!!

no, my name is not Bill Nye
 

Offline JimBob

  • Global Moderator
  • Naked Science Forum King!
  • ********
  • 6543
  • Activity:
    0%
  • Thanked: 8 times
  • Moderator
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #4 on: 18/05/2007 02:19:02 »
DEFINITION

1. EDA        

a dumbass phrase uttered by the Fugliest, stupidest, darkest, brick-walled, dumbf*cks at a place in Garland, Texas . it literally means. hey you come here in a derogatory meaning. but these indians think its cool


As in "shrenik said KH EDA!!!!!"

As in "The city of Houston has this eda huwston f***** up!"
Logged
The mind is like a parachute. It works best when open.  -- A. Einstein
 



Offline Ashtari

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • 46
  • Activity:
    0%
  • The truth will set you free
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #5 on: 28/06/2007 15:01:58 »
Dear Huwston

I would herewith like to advise you that Tesla was the dude who invented the spherical spaceship PLUS stealth techniques aka invisibility.

So, you go right ahead and show this page how misinformed and undiscerning you are and call Tesla a EDA as much as you like.  It does not alter the fact that he is one heck of scientist.

He was a VERY intelligent and capable person.  I need to research his mode of death.  Does anyone here know how, where and when he passed away (died)?  I am certain there were many scientists who were jealous or afraid of his inventions.


Ashtari

Logged
Rev. 1.1-1
Let those who have eyes see, let those who have ears hear.
 

Offline Pumblechook

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • 569
  • Activity:
    0%
  • Thanked: 2 times
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #6 on: 07/12/2007 16:11:23 »
Tesla is totally overrated.  Many of the things he was supposed to have invented were invented earlier and some of the things he claimed to have have done are totally loony like lighting up 200 lamps without wires at a distance of 10 miles...back in about 1890?? 

3 phase AC was invented by John Hopkinson a bloke from Manchester.
Logged
 

Offline yor_on

  • Naked Science Forum GOD!
  • *******
  • 27375
  • Activity:
    100%
  • Thanked: 64 times
  • (Ah, yes:) *a table is always good to hide under*
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #7 on: 15/02/2009 00:47:23 »
Pumblechook, although Tesla was a very strange character, and bigger than life at times, he was it at a time and place where famous people were expected to be so:)

" Modern day transistor or vacuum tube Tesla coils do not use a spark gap. Instead, the transistor(s) or vacuum tube(s) provide the switching or amplifying function necessary to generate RF power for the primary circuit....

Tesla coils and other high-voltage electrical generators look spectacular but have no conventional use. At the same time, Tesla's induction motor—the core of the Tesla coil—is used in pretty much every kitchen appliance and household device, and the principles at work in the Tesla coil are used to create the high voltages needed for conventional television picture tubes to work.

Still, only two groups are doing much work with extremely high voltage electrical effects these days. First, there is the military, which has experimented for years with using ultra-high-amplitude electricity as a weapon. Second are hobbyists, amateur physicists, and adventurous people who want to share in what Tesla must have felt: harnessing lightning and chaining it to a machine."

http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=15747&view=findpost&p=230890
(The first page is sufficient for getting the flair of Tesla, the second I would call redundant:)
And some of the links I gave have been 'abused' when my former site went down for 'reconstructing' by the new owners.
 
You might need to put a http:// at places etc. This is the link to those free 'books' though, http://www.tfcbooks.com/special/mi_link.htm
« Last Edit: 15/02/2009 01:16:42 by yor_on »
Logged
"BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT. If you see me running, try to keep up."
 

Offline nubemet

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • 12
  • Activity:
    0%
  • E = mc²
    • View Profile
    • Free Trivia
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #8 on: 28/03/2009 11:37:59 »
I tried to find a picture for you guys of myself near the statue of Tesla in Zagreb, Croatia... but I didnt manage to...  [:(!] I need to get a picture organizer urgently
Logged
Free Trivia
 



lyner

  • Guest
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #9 on: 02/04/2009 20:19:49 »
yor_on
I think you are crediting Tesla with the transformer effect, which Michael F discovered some time previously.
Logged
 

Offline Fortran

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • 91
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #10 on: 14/05/2009 16:24:10 »
Quote from: science_guy on 17/05/2007 15:46:33
many people credit him with the invention of electricity, rather than Thomas Edison.

Electricity was NOT invented - it was discovered!

Tesla was ok in his younger days but as he got older in order to try and stay at the top of his game he made all sorts of ridiculous claims - a sad person really and it's a shame so many people hold him in high regard for his foolish
ideas rather than his real work.
Logged
You are only smart if you are surrounded by fools, so have a bit more patience for those of us that are complete idiots!

I like this place, if they don't ban me I'll stay here.
 

lyner

  • Guest
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #11 on: 22/06/2009 14:59:13 »
eda =?
there are so many alternatives and none seem to have anything to do with Mr T.
Logged
 

Offline Fearlessmoto

  • First timers
  • *
  • 4
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #12 on: 11/08/2009 22:39:04 »
First off what is an eda?, sorry for looking stupid but i dont deal in "speaking IM" like a 15 year old girl on a cell phone. secondly i am one of those people who holds mister tesla in extremely high regard, i would like to find notes on his experiments, but as we all know they were taken by the government as soon as he died (almost like it was planned or something) but anyway id like to perform an experiment having to do with using  electro-static repulsion to cause levitation, in theory ( and keep that in mind) focusing 2 or more seperate and alternate, extreme high frequency, rapidly
alternating electrostatic pulses onto a single point using electro magnets to focus the charge could cause a repulsion effect against the static in the air or ether as tesla theorized it, anyone interested in chatting it out? why it would work, why it wouldn't. I am just as nuts as tesla was and i love this kind of stuff, if i can get this kind of thing to work, id probably wet myself out of sheer surprise.
Logged
 



Offline madhusoftech

  • First timers
  • *
  • 1
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #13 on: 04/10/2009 23:32:44 »
Please never use any Bad words against Tesla. He was a gem of a character. Just read wiki about him. He never married for the sake of man kind and also had chances to become the first billionaire in the world. However he was never business minded unlike Edison.
Logged
 

Offline tesseract

  • First timers
  • *
  • 1
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #14 on: 21/12/2009 23:52:16 »
Tesla was a genius if it was not for the greed of JP Morgen the world would be a different place a better place.
Logged
 

Offline wbeaty

  • First timers
  • *
  • 6
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
    • http://amasci.com
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #15 on: 18/03/2010 07:47:20 »
Quote from: Fearlessmoto on 11/08/2009 22:39:04
i would like to find notes on his experiments, but as we all know they were taken by the government as soon as he died

They were taken, yes, but then they sat around after the war until relatives in the USSR petitioned for their release.  Seventy steamer trunks of material were shipped out, and now form the collection at the Tesla Museum, Beograde Yugoslavia.

Also you can buy some of his notes:
"Nikola Tesla - Colorado Springs Notes"
"My Inventions"
"Inventions, Research, and Writing of Nikola Tesla"
"Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents and their..."

Quote
Tesla was ok in his younger days but as he got older

Most of Tesla's later claims were essentially advertisments of his secret methods (without giving away the secrets,) as well as trolling for investors: "Here are the things I was planning to do before my funds got cut off.  Give me a few $100K and I'll start this up again."

If Tesla had a secret technique to light hundreds of light bulbs over many miles distance, we can insist that he was successful, or we can insist that he was misguided.  Bpth based on total ignorance, since we don't know what his secret method might have been.
Logged
 
 

Offline L-Kira

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • 31
  • Activity:
    0%
  • Who is so perfect ?
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #16 on: 20/04/2010 16:30:49 »
there are some hidden secrets about Tesla. I wish if I could know about his secret inventions.
Logged
Oh! Yeah it's time to enter into a new DIMENSION.
 



Offline echochartruse

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • 395
  • Activity:
    0%
  • Thanked: 1 times
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #17 on: 25/04/2010 01:18:58 »
Nikola Tesla

Why cant we use his wireless electricity for generating light?

Logged
A view with an open mind
 

Offline wolfekeeper

  • Naked Science Forum King!
  • ******
  • 1380
  • Activity:
    0.5%
  • Thanked: 55 times
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #18 on: 28/04/2010 03:29:50 »
Quote from: wbeaty on 18/03/2010 07:47:20
If Tesla had a secret technique to light hundreds of light bulbs over many miles distance
It's my understanding that there's no known primary source that he did this wirelessly.

It looks like this never happened. My understanding is that Tesla lit lots of lamps at a range of tens of miles, but this was a wired test, not wireless. It looks like this was conflated with his attempts at wireless power transmission at some point. It seems to have been an AC power transmission demo.

« Last Edit: 28/04/2010 03:31:25 by wolfekeeper »
Logged
 

Offline NikolaTesla

  • First timers
  • *
  • 1
  • Activity:
    0%
    • View Profile
Nikola Tesla
« Reply #19 on: 14/01/2011 13:10:11 »
I recently found a documentary from him, very interesting! There are Dutch subtitles but I don't think it's annoying :)

newbielink:http://www.foryou.nl/mystery-guests/de-verdwenen-geheimen-van-nikola-tesla-aflevering-1 [nonactive]
newbielink:http://www.foryou.nl/mystery-guests/de-verdwenen-geheimen-van-nikola-tesla-aflevering-2 [nonactive]
newbielink:http://www.foryou.nl/mystery-guests/de-verdwenen-geheimen-van-nikola-tesla-aflevering-3 [nonactive]
newbielink:http://www.foryou.nl/mystery-guests/de-verdwenen-geheimen-van-nikola-tesla-aflevering-4 [nonactive]
Logged
 



  • Print
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »
Tags:
 

Similar topics (5)

Is the Tesla turbine "better"?

Started by KarstenBoard Technology

Replies: 43
Views: 26638
Last post 17/10/2016 08:27:19
by Michael Miles
Did Tesla uncover an unexplained energy source?

Started by MarkGBoard That CAN'T be true!

Replies: 3
Views: 5295
Last post 16/03/2009 10:20:26
by Chemistry4me
Why have Tesla Motors released their patents for free?

Started by thedocBoard Technology

Replies: 0
Views: 2935
Last post 24/06/2014 17:22:23
by thedoc
Was Tesla's approach to alternative energy workable?

Started by thedocBoard Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology

Replies: 0
Views: 1726
Last post 25/06/2015 13:50:02
by thedoc
What applications do Tesla coils have today?

Started by ScientificSorcererBoard That CAN'T be true!

Replies: 14
Views: 93348
Last post 28/05/2015 20:48:51
by MikikoKiwani
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...
  • SMF 2.0.15 | SMF © 2017, Simple Machines
    Privacy Policy
    SMFAds for Free Forums
  • Naked Science Forum ©

Page created in 0.155 seconds with 91 queries.

  • Podcasts
  • Articles
  • Get Naked
  • About
  • Contact us
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe to newsletter
  • We love feedback

Follow us

cambridge_logo_footer.png

©The Naked Scientists® 2000–2017 | The Naked Scientists® and Naked Science® are registered trademarks created by Dr Chris Smith. Information presented on this website is the opinion of the individual contributors and does not reflect the general views of the administrators, editors, moderators, sponsors, Cambridge University or the public at large.