Re: Tesla...my 2 cents....

["tesla" <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Steve:

IMHO, I agree with you 1000% percent. He was and *IS* a genius above all. He
didn't accomplish as much as he wanted, but so many of his theory's come to
life are woven tightly into our industrial society.

Gene Lambert
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Subject: Tesla...my 2 cents....


> Original poster: "Steve Rosenthal" <sdrosen-at-cwia-dot-com>
>
> Personally.... I put Dr. Tesla on par with Socrates, Mozart, Newton,
> Galileo, da Vinci, etc. A singular visionary genius. Vision is something
> that is rare. I am talking genius grade vision. I don't know if we have
> anyone like that alive today. We have mostly corporations who do the
> "inventing" today, ala Edison. In Tesla's time, he hung with the heavy
> weights, who do we have today to compare with the group he associated
with,
> but he was bored and disillusioned and I really think he lived his life
the
> way he did because he was so far beyond everyone else.  There are groups
of
> similar individuals who seem to appear throughout history. Florence in the
> Renaissance, America in the revolution, and the time period in which Tesla
> lived was like that and he was "IN with IN crowd". We all relate to
Colorado
> Springs and what he did there, but what would have happened if he had
> completed Wardencliff? I am sure he could have achieved his objectives
> relating to tapping into an energy source which, since we cannot seem to
tap
> it, must relegate to myth. So here we are haggling about Tesla coil
theory.
> Can any of you imagine what having this same discussion with Dr. Tesla
would
> be like? We pour over his limited writings looking for clues, how much did
> he not write down, (how about those papers the FBI confiscated on the
event
> of his death... if you choose to believe those stories...I do...having
> worked with the government) how many more ideas? We don't really seem to
be
> able, even now, to move past alternating current, nobody has come up with
> anything better, do all of you think that is because it is the ultimate.
> Tesla knew about solid state devices, he demonstrated understanding of
them
> in his time, even though he never saw a transistor or a diode. Sure there
> are those who can do extremely complicated calculations, but they operate
> only from knowledge they received, how much have they really moved beyond
> that knowledge into uncharted territory. Most are afraid to go there and
> take the chance of being ousted from their eliteist college educated
> cliques. What would Tesla do with today's technology? All we're out for is
> longer sparks, do you really think making longer sparks was what Tesla was
> after, do you think he moved beyond that? He talked like he did, he talked
> and wrote like he had thoughts beyond even what we have with today's
> technology. How smug we are with our technology. He would be as far ahead
of
> us now as he was ahead of his peers in his day. He would take all the
> technology we have today and expand on it 50 to 100 years into the
> future..... just like he did in his time. Look...I like long sparks too,
but
> the main reason I build Tesla coils is because it is after all "Tesla's
> coil". Funny how we still have the Tesla Coil, the Tesla turbine, what
about
> the Tesla Transformer, the Tesla Radio,  the Tesla Capacitor, the Tesla
> electric motor, and all the other Tesla inventions which have dropped the
> "Tesla"? Did you see that site where the school kids are selling t-shirts
to
> buy a bust of Tesla to put in the hall of inventors at the Smithsonian and
> another at MIT? Overdue recognition. But no matter, I'll get off my
soapbox
> now, that's just what I think, in my own very humble opinion.........you
> think whatever you want.
> Steve R.
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