Re: Nikola Tesla

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Subject: Re: Nikola Tesla
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:49:25 -0500
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Subject:  Re: Nikola Tesla
  Date:   Fri, 9 May 1997 11:01:35 -0500
  From:   "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
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> Date:          Thu, 08 May 1997 01:19:02 -0500
> To:            tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject:       Nikola Tesla
> From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

> Subject:       Nikola Tesla
>        Date:   Thu, 08 May 1997 09:32:24 -0700
>        From:   gene lambert <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>
> Organization:  Tesla Electric, LTD
>          To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> 
> 
> After being subscribed for six months or so, I have a question:
> 
> does anyone here have any interest in tesla the man? Although I have
> built a tesla coil, I have seen little discussion of Tesla the man here.
> Also, the implications of his ideas and inventions in civilization. If
> others here have a like mind, i'd like to draw attention to a ad from
> our electric utilities, in the February 1997 Scientific American, page
> 9. I quote:
> 
> Ideas just wouldn't be the same without Thomas Edison.
> 
> America's Eletric Utilities salute Thomas Alva Edison on the 150th
> annirversary of his birth. His ideas for the incadescent light
> transformed how we see the world. "And his development of the eletrical
> generation and distribution system brings that light into our homes"
> (qoutes mine). His countless bright ideas have made brighter lives for
> us all. AMERICAS ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES.
> 
> Does this seem misleading to anyone else?
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Gene Lambert
 
Gene,

You are correct of course.  Nobody offers the real inventor of radio 
any credit either.  I read somewhere that when old Nickola was told 
that Marconi had been successful in sending radio messages across the 
Atlantic ocean , Tesla's reply was something like" Well I'm not 
suprised, he's using (stealing) 20 of my patents!".

Although Tesla deserves the true recognition for the discoveries and 
inventions that we all now accept in daily life, like power 
distribution, to try to challenge some so-called historians who are 
responsible for the misinformation that is perpetuated on these radio 
and power system subjects may be long work laiden with sparks other 
than of the kind deemed desireable on this list.  

Thankfully our own Holy Grail at least, the Tesla Coil, bears the
inventors's 
name!

Long live this remarkable electrical resonator, no matter how long!

rwstephens