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Nikola
Tesla | Bob Neal | Ron
Rockwell | Charles Brown
T.
Henry Moray | Edwin
Gray | Paul Baumann | John
Bedini
Nikola Tesla
was a multi-disciplinary genius. His discovery of the rotating magnetic
field in 1882 lead to a series of US Patents in 1888, which gave
us the AC electric power system still in use today. This one achievement
earned him the honor of being called "The Man Who Invented the
20th Century".
But his research
went way beyond what has found its way into everyday use. He is the
recognized inventor of the brushless AC induction motor, radio, remote
control by radio, super-conductivity, fluorescent lighting, the bladeless
turbine engine and pump, the capacitor discharge ignition system
for automobile engines, the mechanical oscillator, and dozens of
other inventions. But he also discovered that useful energy could
be extracted from the heat of the ambient air, and that electric
power in the form of Radiant Energy could be broadcast to everyone
in the world through the ground.
In his masterful
article The
Problem of Increasing Human Energy, first published in Century
Illustrated Magazine in June 1900, Tesla discusses the "energy
situation" like never before. After discussing every known method
of gathering energy from the Natural World, Tesla departs into the
unknown. His first discussion is about a machine that can gather
heat from the ambient air. He calls it a "Self-acting Engine"
since it could run indefinitely from the solar energy stored in the
air. He called it "the ideal way of obtaining motive power".
Tesla worked
for years trying to solve all of the technical issues presented by
the idea. His work with liquified air, his discovery of super-conductivity
at ultra-low temperatures, his bladeless turbine and mechanical oscillator
were all spin-offs from his work on the ambient air engine.
He was convinced the system could work and that it was absolutely
the best way to harness solar energy.
On a world that
is warming up, tapping ambient sources of heat in the air, water
and ground are the most important technologies to develop at this
time. For
a brief article on Tesla's amazing "Self-acting Engine",
click here.
But
Nikola Tesla's most famous attempt to provide everyone in the world
with free energy was his World Power System, a method of broadcasting
electrical energy without wires, through the ground. His Wardenclyffe
Tower, pictured above, was never finished, but his dream of providing
energy to all points on the globe is still alive today.
For
more information on Nikola Tesla and his discoveries, please follow
these links:
DVD
Lecture Tesla's Radiant Energy
Tesla's Self-acting
Engine
Tesla
Wardenclyffe Project
Tesla
Photo Archive
Short
Tesla biography
Tesla
Memorial Society of New York
Tesla's
US Patents
Tesla
Museum in Belgrade, Serbia
Two
Articles by Nikola Tesla:
The
Problem of Increasing Human Energy
On Light and other
High Frequency Phenomena
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