Nicola Tesla: Why is he so little known? One of the greatest inventive minds of the 20th or any century.?
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So little known?? I've seen television shows about him, read numerous articles in mainstream periodicals, learned about him in many of my college courses...I don't know why you think he is little known-other than the fact that very few of the great physicists are well known by the general public, except for Einstein and Hawking, and maybe Curie.
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fairy tales? , probably you can do that in literature or history, but in physics is sort of hard ..He dedicated his life to work , he was truly a genius, we needed a bunch of scientists to get together just for continue with his legacy ; maybe his ideas were , at his time, sort of fantastic ; but I don't think He was a lier or something ,if that's what you were trying to say... if not, yeah he was fun :P
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TESLA IS THE UNIT FOR MAGNETIC INDUCTION,HE GAVE A LOT OF THEORIES ON  THE ABOVE TOPIC
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Such a device was developed in the early part of the 20th Century, by Tesla. It was never utilized, because there is NO profit for the Corporations of the world, in GIVING AWAY energy.
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He was brilliant, well educated and sought to constantly test his thinking... a rare (but very human) man.  Perhaps you should read some of the many, many books written on this Founding Father for more insight into the particulars of his life?
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Tesla Coils or the creator of the Tesla Coil, Nikola Tesla.
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This was the dream of Nikola Tesla.\nNikola Tesla (Smiljan, near Gospic, Austrian Empire (now Croatia), July 10, 1856 – c. January 7, 1943 in New York) was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer.\n\nHis nationality is disputed between Croatians and Serbs. Tesla himself said that he was equally proud of his Serbian heritage as of his Croatian homeland [1].\n\nTesla is recognized among the most accomplished scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and AC motor, with which he contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution.\n\nIn the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or in popular culture. After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. Never putting a large focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished and forgotten at the age of 86. In his later years, Tesla was regarded as a mad scientist and became noted for making bizarre claims about possible scientific developments\n\nWireless energy transfer, by definition, does not require a physical medium through which to flow. Anyone can demonstrate that energy can be transmitted without a direct physical connection by simply touching the ends of a wire, briefly, to the ends of a small battery. Hold the wire near a compass needle while you do this and you'll see the compass needle twitch. It takes energy to make something move, so you've transmitted energy wirelessly. The needle moves because the electric current which briefly flows through the wire generates a magnetic field which acts on the needle (see electromagnetic induction and magnetic field for more information).\n\nAnother, more dramatic demonstration of wireless energy uses a radio transmitter generating more than a few watts, such as an amateur radio transmitter. A Fluorescent lamp with no wires attached to it, held near the antenna, will glow when the transmitter is activated. Send "SOS" and the light blinks "SOS". The transmitted energy causes the gas inside the lamp to glow, like the northern lights.\n\nOnce the basic principle is established, then the problem is to concentrate the energy of the transmission so that most of it is received where it can be converted into useful power. Think of a flashlight that lets you focus the light beam or spread it out so that it's very wide. If you wanted to shine the flashlight on a solar cell, you'd want the flashlight's beam to be tightly focussed to reduce the amount of energy which does not fall on the receiver and is lost.\n\nEarly systems (such as Tesla proposed) were incapable of such "focusing" of transmitted energy, because the necessary antenna size is impractically large at low frequencies (see extremely low frequency radio waves). Without focusing, much of the energy would be lost to the atmosphere.\n\nThe advent of technology for much higher transmission frequencies (such as those used by microwave transmitters) created the possibility of "beaming" the energy through the use of directional antennas, such as the one invented by Hidetsugu Yagi. Lasers, which create a coherent and tightly "beamed" form of light energy, are even more appropriate.\n\nIn most cases the cost of such solutions is much higher than simply using copper wire. Wireless energy transfer, then, is most interesting for applications where the energy receiver can't be copper-tethered to the energy source — such as sending energy to an airplane or spacecraft, or another planet, or in the case of
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it can not definitely be something other than human since only us have the capacity of thinking.this will be a classical answer but einstein was a good one. I do not want to say that he is the most intelligent one because he was a clever one but he also had the opportunity to show himself. there are lots of people who even do not have the opportunity to read, so in this case Einstein is best example to someone intelligent and able to show it to the rest of the world.
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Ben had meetings with people on how to improve themselves, their business and the community. He was one of the founding fathers building in the 3 branches of government, separating power to combat human problems such as corupt kings.\nHe was a greatly admired scientist working with LaVosier in France and debunking mesmerism. \nHumanitatian for giving his invention of the lighting rod without royalties since it benefitted so many. \nHe followed Descartes thoughts that the world was mechanistis. It is not enough to believe. There needs to be test, evidence, theory. A great relief to the wichcraft victums,
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In 18 hundred it was Albert Einstein, I believe he has a High IQ. But Nanotechnology is a whole new subject to some human..to be honor, I bet some people never have heard the term Nanotechnology...I'm into Nanotechnology. I been learn lesson from the pro...you should check your local libraries.or spend your money on book..
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Einstein.\n\n\n\nEinstein was just a God in human form. The man came up with some of the most influential ideas of the millennia, without being able to test his ideas. He just used the power of his imagination, and was right on almost all accounts.\n\n\nHe could figure out anything. He has his fingerprints in just about every major discovery involving physics during the early 20th century. If it had of been possible back then, he should be have been cloned, because he probably would have finally solved the theory of everything.\n\n\nEinstein was far beyond Newton in terms of thought. Newton was extremely influential, and spent probably every waking hour of his life on his work, dieing a virgin. However, his creative ideas stand nowhere near Einstein. Atleast in terms of creative physics.
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He was never able to write it. He was in the middle of trying to create one theory for electromagnatism and his own theory of relativity when he died. It is yet to be done to create such a theory, although the string theory could possibly be it.
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Michael Faraday in 1821 was a pioneer in the field of electric motors.  He is credited with making the first electric motor, but it was more experimental than practical.\n\nBut the type of motor we see today was invented accidentally by Zénobe Gramme in 1873.
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Hands down, it's Albert Einstein, because his intellect was so far ranging that we are, to this day, still discovering facets of his theories and proving him right, yet again! His mind was so far beyond his contemporaries that it has always been difficult to find scientists who could follow his teachings. He was brilliant beyond belief!
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Philo T. Farnsworth \nhttp://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/farnsworth.htm
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I assume you were refering to Nicoli Tesla. Indeed he was great man. I read a book about him several years ago. It was he that invented alternating current. The credit usually goes to george westinghouse, and he does indeed deserve partial credit-he financed Mr. Tesla.\n\nTesla invented many things that are in use today. Of course A.C. was the big one. There are other reasons why tesla is not so famous. His main rival was Tom Edison. Tom Edison was also a inventor (duh) and his idea of using D.C. was the one to beat. Tesla's A.C. was superior and edison knew it, but Edison had a huge ego and did stunts trying to show that A.C. was dangerous. Basicaly he electrocuted animals on stage. If you look hard on the internet you will find a very old video of edison electrocuting an elephant to death. \n\nWhat it all boils down to is Westinghouse and Edison hating each other and that is what the public saw, and poor old tesla was just plain forgotten about.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\n\nI'm not sure which device of his you are refering to, but wikipedia's page on him is surprisingly comprehensive, and there is a list of his devices on the right-hand side with links/diagrams\n\nHope that helps!