Forgotten is the greatest mind that ever lived
The Serbian invented the radio, the radar, the X-ray, hydro-electric power generation
Let us get one thing clear: Nikola Tesla was mad. He talked to pigeons and Martians, and stopped inventing once his favourite pigeon died at his windowsill. He had an obsessive fear of germs and a profound hatred of round objects and of numbers that aren’t divisible by three. He shunned human contact whenever he could and was celibate his entire life, turning down the advances of several women.
But he was also the greatest mind to have ever lived. Author Robert Lomas dubbed him ‘The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century’ and, considering Tesla’s achievement, that is anything but hyperbole.
The Serbian invented the radio, the radar, the X-ray, hydro-electric power generation, the generator and the remote control to name a few things. But surely his greatest ever invention was the alternating current that allowed electricity to be transmitted into homes; perhaps the most important invention in human history.
Tesla had 700 patents to his name when he died and is surely one of the, if not the greatest, inventor to have ever lived.
Perhaps, the biggest proof that Tesla was far ahead of his time was when a weather machine built by Tesla malfunctioned and caused an earthquake in New York. People gathered outside his residence with pitchforks and torches in an attempt to make him leave. Hence, Tesla was exiled to the wastelands of Russia.
There he is thought to have caused the Tunguska event, an explosion a 1,000 times larger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, either through his tower or through the death ray.
Tesla is also the only person to have transferred energy remotely across a large distance, lighting up 200 bulbs wirelessly from 26 miles away. The closest anyone else has ever come since is seven feet.
He was the first man to refute Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity, instead suggesting a Unified Field Theory. The scientific community rejected Tesla’s suggestions and they died with him, and it wasn’t until recently that Tesla was proven right. Unfortunately, Tesla was the only man to have fully understood field theory and the answers it provides were lost with Tesla.
The greatest mind that ever lived offered us utopia; a place with infinite renewable energy and weapons so powerful they could end humanity – perhaps the only threat that can ever lead to world peace — but we shunned him aside because we never truly understood him; neither his genius nor his madness. And so a man that should never have been lost has been forgotten.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2014.
But he was also the greatest mind to have ever lived. Author Robert Lomas dubbed him ‘The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century’ and, considering Tesla’s achievement, that is anything but hyperbole.
The Serbian invented the radio, the radar, the X-ray, hydro-electric power generation, the generator and the remote control to name a few things. But surely his greatest ever invention was the alternating current that allowed electricity to be transmitted into homes; perhaps the most important invention in human history.
Tesla had 700 patents to his name when he died and is surely one of the, if not the greatest, inventor to have ever lived.
Perhaps, the biggest proof that Tesla was far ahead of his time was when a weather machine built by Tesla malfunctioned and caused an earthquake in New York. People gathered outside his residence with pitchforks and torches in an attempt to make him leave. Hence, Tesla was exiled to the wastelands of Russia.
There he is thought to have caused the Tunguska event, an explosion a 1,000 times larger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, either through his tower or through the death ray.
Tesla is also the only person to have transferred energy remotely across a large distance, lighting up 200 bulbs wirelessly from 26 miles away. The closest anyone else has ever come since is seven feet.
He was the first man to refute Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity, instead suggesting a Unified Field Theory. The scientific community rejected Tesla’s suggestions and they died with him, and it wasn’t until recently that Tesla was proven right. Unfortunately, Tesla was the only man to have fully understood field theory and the answers it provides were lost with Tesla.
The greatest mind that ever lived offered us utopia; a place with infinite renewable energy and weapons so powerful they could end humanity – perhaps the only threat that can ever lead to world peace — but we shunned him aside because we never truly understood him; neither his genius nor his madness. And so a man that should never have been lost has been forgotten.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2014.