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Hello! Anybody heard of Tesla?
24/07/09 09:49 Filed in: Personal
I guess this post is really two pronged.
The first regards a conversation I had with some people at the organisation I’m helping out at present. The second is prompted by this BBC news article.
Essentially it all boils down to the same thing.
NOBODY HAS HEARD OF NIKOLA TESLA!
In case you’ve not, I think this video really says all I could and more.
But in case you’re not aware of Tesla and don’t have the time; he’s the inventor of;
Not to mention about 700 further inventions he held the patents for. This is a man with a prolific mind and somebody we should revere both in the scientific community and the general public.
But he has been lost to the likes of Thomas Edison; a man credited falsely with the invention of the light bulb. Edison neither first invented the “electric light bulb” nor the carbon filament vacuum electric light bulb. But for a decent write up on the incandescent light bulb, wikipedia currently holds a useful breakdown.
The variation of the electric light bulb Edison is attributed to inventing was in fact created by Joseph Wilson Swan (carbon fibre filament) in 1878. Swan sued Edison in Britain for patent infringement and won the case; creating the company Ediswan. But the fact remains that many other people both prior to that time and after can lay claim to the continuing improvements in the technology.
Nobody can make such a claim with regards Neon. It has just one inventor.
The first regards a conversation I had with some people at the organisation I’m helping out at present. The second is prompted by this BBC news article.
Essentially it all boils down to the same thing.
NOBODY HAS HEARD OF NIKOLA TESLA!
In case you’ve not, I think this video really says all I could and more.
But in case you’re not aware of Tesla and don’t have the time; he’s the inventor of;
- AC Current electricity
- Neon lighting
- Robotics
- The logical “AND” gate
- Bladeless turbines
- Remote control (via radio)
- And of course the Tesla coil
Not to mention about 700 further inventions he held the patents for. This is a man with a prolific mind and somebody we should revere both in the scientific community and the general public.
But he has been lost to the likes of Thomas Edison; a man credited falsely with the invention of the light bulb. Edison neither first invented the “electric light bulb” nor the carbon filament vacuum electric light bulb. But for a decent write up on the incandescent light bulb, wikipedia currently holds a useful breakdown.
The variation of the electric light bulb Edison is attributed to inventing was in fact created by Joseph Wilson Swan (carbon fibre filament) in 1878. Swan sued Edison in Britain for patent infringement and won the case; creating the company Ediswan. But the fact remains that many other people both prior to that time and after can lay claim to the continuing improvements in the technology.
Nobody can make such a claim with regards Neon. It has just one inventor.
