Anti-gravity, it promises much..  Its uses are indeed unlimited.  The construction industry will be revolutionized.  It is an  answer to many Military logistic requirements. Transportation is brimming with opportunities yet undreamed of.   Close your eyes and let your imagination run wild.   This missive is dedicated to the wonderful achievements and ideas based on Nicola Tesla patents and other ideas he wanted to promote for the benefit of mankind..

How did all his come about?   The imagination of thousands of dreamers from time immemorial finally became reality with a remote, almost obscure handwritten jotting pad from the genius of a sometimes badly represented Yugoslavian inventor of the alternating current. AC (Alternating Current) is used world wide for delivery of electric power from a metropolitan city to .the most remote towns and villages Nikola Tesla was not thoroughly appreciated by America's own genius of electrical and motion picture inventiveness.   The competition between Tesla and Edison over the best delivery system to use for getting electric power to the public - direct current or alternating current- drove a permanent wedge between these two powerful inventive geniuses.

Tesla was born in what is now known as Yugoslavia on July 10, 1856.  As a young man he wrote "The Fairy Tale of Electricity."   (This may be seen on the Web http://www.yurope.com/org/tesla/uvode.htm  at the Museum of Nikola Tesla in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.)

 The  following  excerpt is taken from that museum web site, where you may see much more Tesla history) "Whoever wishes to get a true appreciation of the greatness of our age should study  the history of electrical development. There he will find a story more wonderful than any tale from Arabian Nights.  It  begins long before the Christian ere when Thales, Theophrastus and Pliny tell of the magic properties of  electron- the precious substance we call amber - that came from the pure tears of  the Hellades, sisters of Phaeton, the unfortunate youth who  attempted to run the blazing chariot of  Phoebus and nearly burned up the earth. Moses was undoubtedly a practical and skillful electrician far in advance of his time. The Bible describes precisely and minutely arrangements constituting a machine in which electricity was generated by friction of air against silk curtains and stored in a box constructed like a condenser.  It is very plausible to assume that the sons of Aaron were killed by a tension discharge and that the vestal fires were electrical.  This was the birth of the condenser, perhaps the most marvelous electrical device ever invented...".  . .

Thomas Edison won the battle to use direct current throughout the first public use of electric power for homes, and industry for a period of time early in the 20th century.  For local power using direct current ( DC ) was not deliverable for long distances from the Edison power plants. This problem finally opened the door for Tesla to prove his alternating current system (AC) for longer distances. Today we know it as 120 Volts, 60 cycles, and is used worldwide.

The tension between them broke off the mix of unlimited genius needed to have solved many human problems. Working hand in hand might have led to quicker answers that badgered mankind for centuries.

There was jealous envy by Edison and complete disdain by Tesla for things and people not fully appreciative of his great imagination and enviable genius.  Tesla liked to live like royalty and when his income rose, he saw to it that he lived it. Saving and investing didn't seem to have much appeal. When funds were low he always managed to invent and find a benefactor to use the item or invention profitably for them both. The Westinghouse companies manufacturers of the airbrake. Used on Pullman passenger cars and trains, was encouraged to finance Tesla. That company saw his genius and funded many of his inventions including the development of AC, which to all intents and purposes has replaced Edison DC electrical distribution for cities and industry worldwide, with the exceptions of small, or specialized motors. At Niagara Falls you will see a huge bronze statue of Nicola Tesla as a tribute to his genius and contributions to the world of electricity, as well as many more outstanding And literally earth shaking inventions, which. are still being discovered and used.

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