Michael Badnarik talks on the genius of Nikola Tesla

[RSLudlum]

Michael Badnarik talks of my favorite scientist, Nikola Tesla, on his Lighting The Fires Of Liberty radio show.

If you don't know who Nikola Tesla was and how he helped shape the world we live in today check this show out!!!

http://67.212.67.19/PubPodcast//lighting_the_fires/1224082.mp3


websites on Tesla:

http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en.htm
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
http://www.teslasociety.com/

 

[rancher89]

Tesla truely was amazing, just watch a DVD on him last month, but had heard of him before. I DIDn't know he was alive and competing/working with Edison until the DVD.

 

[torchbearer]

Edison = DC
Tesla = AC.

Our entire power grid is based on AC. Who do you think won that battle?

 

[rancher89]

hehehe

Tesla saw the versitility, Edison didn't.....game over!

 

[RSLudlum]

Edison = DC
Tesla = AC.

Our entire power grid is based on AC. Who do you think won that battle?

yeah, Edison went to great extents trying to convince the public that Tesla's high voltage AC (in which the motor was previously thought by his professor to be an unrealistic perpetual motion device) was unsafe by electrocuting an elephant with it.

Here's the footage of "Topsy the Elephant" being electrocuted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBU3aYsf0Q

and an article on "Topsy": http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/topsy.html

 

[anaconda]

I'm not clear on how Tesla lost all of his money. Apparently George Westinghouse paid him at least a million bucks for patents, yet he died broke, if I understand correctly. The DVD I watched never really addressed this apparent contradiction.

 

[Uriel999]

I'm not clear on how Tesla lost all of his money. Apparently George Westinghouse paid him at least a million bucks for patents, yet he died broke, if I understand correctly. The DVD I watched never really addressed this apparent contradiction.

Expensive hookers?

 

[M House]

I saw special on him and he was pretty weird on money. He had a few simple things he must have but everything else he treated as superfluous. He tended to simply refuse it or just give it away.

 

[RSLudlum]

I'm not clear on how Tesla lost all of his money. Apparently George Westinghouse paid him at least a million bucks for patents, yet he died broke, if I understand correctly. The DVD I watched never really addressed this apparent contradiction.

He redacted his patent contract with Westinghouse valued at $2.50/KW bc. Westinghouse seemed to be getting in financial trouble; which Tesla saw might've led to Edison coming out on top in the 'current war'. Later on his laboratory burned to the ground and he attempted the Wardencliffe tower which "failed" and then the public started labeling him a "kook" with the 'death ray'. He wasn't a very 'good' business man like Edison was. Tesla died penniless but it's reported that upward of about 2,000 people attended his funeral.

 

[anaconda]

He redacted his patent contract with Westinghouse valued at $2.50/KW bc. Westinghouse seemed to be getting in financial trouble; which Tesla saw might've led to Edison coming out on top in the 'current war'. Later on his laboratory burned to the ground and he attempted the Wardencliffe tower which "failed" and then the public started labeling him a "kook" with the 'death ray'. He wasn't a very 'good' business man like Edison was. Tesla died penniless but it's reported that upward of about 2,000 people attended his funeral.

Hmm..interesting..thanks.

I somehow thought that he had a million bucks up front in addition to the royalty contract. Perhaps not.