Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla !!

Happy Birthday

Nikola Tesla

The Man Who Invented

The Twentieth Century

  By Mike

July 10th  marks the birthday of Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the Twentieth Century

As an omen to his life’s work, it is said he was born at the stroke of midnight during an electrical storm. Though often ignored in history books and the media, Tesla had more impact on modern life than Edison and Einstein together. To put it in layman’s terms, if you use something that uses electricity, you owe him a debt of gratitude. His work with magnetism, motors and power transmission shaped the Twentieth Century, and created the second Industrial Revolution. He is credited with inventing  AC electricity, Neon Lights, Radio transmission, The Electric motor, Wireless electricity transfer, Remote control, Hydraulics, Lasers, Space weapons, Robotics, and many, many more things. 

 

Read more here:

http://fiveminutevacations.com/Blog/the-man-who-invented-the-twentieth-century/

Born     10 July 1856 - Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)
Died     7 January 1943 (aged 86) - New York City, New York, USA
 

Engineering career
Engineering discipline     Electrical engineering
 

Mechanical engineering
Significant projects     Alternating current, high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments
 

Significant design

Induction motor Rotating magnetic field
Tesla coil
Radio remote control vehicle (torpedo)

Here’s our updated two-parter on Tesla, too:

Nikola Tesla and the War of Currents Revisited: Part 1

http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/nikola-tesla-and-the-war-of-currents-revisited-part-1/

Nikola Tesla and the War of Currents Revisited: Part 2

 http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/nikola-tesla-and-the-war-of-currents-revisited-part-2/

And for further reading, see: 10 Reasons Why Tesla Is a Scientific God.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/famous-inventors/10-reasons-tesla-is-scientific-god.htm?mkcpgn=tmblrhsw01&utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hswaccount

Nikola Tesla had patents galore, but his role in history books 

Nikola Tesla popularly known as the ‘mad scientist’ was brilliant.

He spoke eight languages, single-handedly developed technology that harnessed the power of electricity for household use, and invented things like electrical generators, FM radio, remote control, robots, spark plugs, fluorescent lights, and giant machines that shoot enormous, brain-frying lightning bolts all over the place like crazy.  

He had an unyielding, steel-trap photographic memory and an insane ability to visualize even the most complex pieces of machinery – he did advanced calculus and physics equations in his own head, memorized entire books at a time, and successfully pulled off scientific experiments that modern-day technology still can’t replicate. 

He once lit 200 light bulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the god-forsaken desert, 

He held 700 patents at the time of his death, made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of physics, robotics, steam turbine engineering, and magnetism, and once melted one of his assistants’ hands by overloading it with X-rays.

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was also involved in the corporate struggle between making alternating current or direct current the power transmission standard, referred to as the war of currents. Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission; his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillator/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He even built a wireless controlled boat which may have been the first such device ever exhibited.

Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist."

His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943.

Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic field strength the tesla in his honour. Tesla has experienced a resurgence in interest in popular culture since the 1990s.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

 

Nikola Tesla Corner

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July 10, 1856 - Nikola Tesla was born in Vojna Krajina, which is now part of Croatia. Tesla was probably the greatest inventor, scientist and electrical engineer of his day, if not of all time, though because he was a decent, honest and eccentric fellow, I regret most people hardly even know of him. But you can thank Tesla every time you plug something into your wall socket, turn on a radio, and use a little electricity. You can learn more about his life at the Tesla Society, Wikipedia, or of course, Google. Yeah - you know Tesla has coils, but did you know Tesla also has a cool car named after him? Or, that LikeTelevision named their first server after Tesla?

To honor our hero today on his birthday - we thought we'd highlight some cool videos that were inspired by Nikola Tesla's genius. First - check out a few classic Superman episodes - Electronic Earthquake and Magnetic Telescope. Both these terrific cartoons feature some mondo electronic gear inspired by Tesla's ideas. For a vintage look at some Tesla Coils - you can check out Fritz Lang's Metropolis, or the hilarious old serial called the Lost City.

If you asked most people in the US - who gave us electricity?, most would answer Thomas Edison. In truth - Edison almost killed it for all of us. Of course it took a lot of people to make it happen, but if you had to credit just one guy, that man would most surely be - Nikola Tesla. 

Happy Birthday Mr. Tesla!!

 

The 10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World

1. Alternating Current -- This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World's Expo in Chicago.  A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed.  The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator).  Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general "dangers" of electric current to instill fear in Tesla's alternative: Alternating Current.  As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations.  Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla's attempt to offer safety at a lower cost.  Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light.  This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla's inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla's system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.

 

2. Light -- Of course he didn't invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.  Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry "invented" them. At the World's Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists' names, in effect creating the first neon signs.  However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial.  The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter.  All that is needed on the other end is the receiver -- much like a radio. 

 

3. X-rays -- Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role.  X-rays, like so many of Tesla's contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.

 

4. Radio -- Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day.  However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi.  Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association.  In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents  US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.

 

5. Remote Control -- This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No. 613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898.  Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat's propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.

 

6. Electric Motor -- Tesla's invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name.  While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla's invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil.  However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and compressors.

 

7. Robotics -- Tesla's overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses.  He stated: "I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli."  Thus, the concept of the robot was born.  However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations -- namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce.  His visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems are detailed in a must-read entry in the Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2006 (PDF).

 

8. Laser -- Tesla's invention of the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man.  Lasers have transformed surgical applications in an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much of our current digital media. However, with this leap in innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction.  From Reagan's "Star Wars" laser defense system to today's Orwellian "non-lethal" weapons' arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy "death rays," there is great potential for development in both directions.

 

9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy -- These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite -- what good is energy if it can't be metered and controlled?  Free?  Never.  J.P. Morgan backed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text.  This represented the world's first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them.  Essentially, the 0's and 1's of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed.  Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge.  But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?

Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased.  A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer.  If you feel that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion, instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed institutions of higher education, join the world's call to tell power brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and learn about what our universe really has to offer.

The release of Nikola Tesla's technical and scientific research -- specifically his research into harnessing electricity from the ionosphere at a facility called Wardenclyffe -- is a necessary step toward true freedom of information.  Please add your voice by sharing this information with as many people as possible.

For additional information about the demand for release, or to use as a template to form your own demand, please visit: http://releaseteslasresearch.weebly.com/

 

 

What if Telekinesis was Real?

What if Telekinesis was Real?

How would you react?

Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise

Hidden camera experiment captures the reactions of unsuspecting customers at a New York City coffee shop as they witness a telekinetic event.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M

Sitting All Day is REALLY Bad for You

Sitting All Day is REALLY Bad for You!

Here's why

by Joseph Stromberg 
July 2, 2014

By now, you may have heard of the emerging science showing the dangers of sitting all day — and the health benefits of increasing the amount of time you spend standing or walking on a daily basis.

It might not be a shock that sitting a lot makes you more likely to be obese. But scientists have found that, apart from obesity, excessive sitting is linked with all sorts of other health problems — even if you vigorously exercise after spending a work day in your chair.

Each hour you spend sitting shaves 21.8 minutes off your life expectancy

"What really surprised us was when our data began to show that people who sit longer are more prone to breast cancer, prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, even depression," says James Levine, the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist whose research has largely jumpstarted the field of sitting science over the past few years.

Most recently, a review of 43 different studies published last week found that the amount of time you spend sitting increases your chance of colon, endometrial, and lung cancers. The bottom line is that each hour you spend sitting reduces your life expectancy by about 21.8 minutes, regardless of your exercise and diet (with a margin of error of 0.3 to 44.7 minutes for the study that arrived at this figure).

How does this work?
Here's an explanation of what we know about how sitting affects the human body.

You burn 50 fewer calories
per hour when sitting

Ilia Yefimovic/Getty Images

One way that sitting makes you more likely to become obese is pretty straightforward: you burn fewer calories sitting all day, compared to standing or walking. This is because your leg muscles need to work to keep you upright and balanced, expending some energy.

It varies widely from person to person, but it's estimated that you burn an extra 50 calories per hour when standing, compared to sitting. This might not sound like a lot, but it adds up if you sit for eight hours per day, five days a week.

Standing just half that time means you'll burn an extra 1000 calories each week without changing your diet or exercise. Do it for a year, and that's about 50,000 extra calories — the rough equivalent of running 15 marathons.

Your muscles undergo other metabolic changes while sedentary

Mahmoud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images

The effects of sitting go far beyond fewer calories burned — which explains why research has shown that increased exercise for an hour or so per day can't undo the negative effects of sitting for eight hours, any more than running a mile can erase the damage caused by a smoking habit.

idle muscles release lower amounts of lipase, an important enzyme

Various metabolic changes that occur in sedentary muscles seem to be the culprit. They're still not well understood, but one likely explanation is that idle muscle cells release much lower amounts of lipase, an enzyme that's important for eliminating fats from the bloodstream and maintaining high levels of "good" cholesterol.

Another likely cause is that our bodies become more resistant to insulin when consistently sedentary. The expression of genes involved in suppressing inflammation is also altered when we sit, and may contribute to the increased cancer rates observed in people who sit a lot.

Ultimately, all of these mechanisms — along with others we still haven't detected — probably contribute to the insidious health cost of sitting all day.

This increases the risk of cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, and cancer

Rob Monk/Computer Arts Magazine

The effect of these mechanisms is seen in epidemiological studies that link a sedentary lifestyle with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other health problems. Put simply, sitting for most of your waking hours — like the 50 to 70 percent of Americans who sit for six or more hours per day — shaves years off your life.

adults who spend four or more hours per day sitting and watching tv have a 125 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease

Time spent watching TV is often used as a convenient metric for sitting at home, since people tend to more accurately report how they watched TV on a given day than how long they sat. And research has found, for instance, that compared to adults who spend two or fewer hours per day sitting and watching TV, those who spend four or more have a 125 percent increased chance of heart attack, chest pain, or other symptoms of cardiovascular disease, even when controlling for diet and exercise.

Other work has found that adults who spend the most time sitting have a 112 percent increased chance of developing type 2 diabetes — and that for adults already at risk of developing diabetes, time spent sitting is a bigger risk factor than getting enough exercise.

All this also applies to cancer. "We observed that each 2-hour per day increase in sitting time was associated with increased risks of cancers of the colon and endometrium, and with a borderline significant increased risk of lung cancer," says Daniela Schmid, lead author of the recent analysis of sitting and cancer risk. "The results were independent of physical activity, showing that sedentary behavior represents a potential cancer risk factor distinct from physical inactivity."

These are all correlations, not causations. But they're reinforced by controlled studies in both human and animals showing the metabolic changes that occur in sedentary muscles. And these correlations persist when researchers control for physical activity, diet, smoking, and other health metrics. In other words, even if two people eat the same foods and work out the same amount, the data tells us that the person who sits more every day will be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Spend enough of your day in a desk chair, a driver's seat, or on a couch, and the effect adds up. One study found that an adult who spends six hours a day sitting and watching TV will live, on average, 4.8 fewer years than one who watches no TV, even if they have the same diet and exercise.

To put it in more tangible terms: each hour of TV you sit and watch past the age of 25 is associated with a 21.8 minute reduction in your lifespan. Of course, there's some variation in this: if you're lucky, the reduction might be as small as 0.3 minutes, and if you're not, it could be as big as 44.7 minutes (this is the margin of error).

But on average, it's 21.8 minutes. Other researchers have calculated that each cigarette you smoke, in comparison, reduces your life expectancy by roughly 11 minutes.

So what should you do?

Ramsey Beyer

Fixing this problem doesn't necessarily require that you go out and get a standing desk — although that isn't a bad idea. But the key, in general, is to incorporate movement into every hour of your day.

The key is to incorporate some movement into every hour of your day

"Step one is to get up," Levin says. 
"You've got to find systematic, organized methods to getting up more often."

There are lots of ways to do this. In an office, you could start by getting up and walking around while on the phone, scheduling standing meetings, or intentionally putting a garbage can or printer farther away from your desk, so you need to walk a bit every so often to get there. If you do opt to try a standing desk, experts recommend taking sitting breaks to reduce the strain on your heels and knees.

At home, cut down on the amount of TV you watch, or even just take your dog for a quick walk around the block during a commercial break. Research has shown that people who simply take short walking breaks of a few minutes during sedentary periods have lower rates of obesity and other risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Want an even more tangible way to remind you of the harms of sitting? Try our calculator. Enter in the number of hours you sit each week, and it'll tell you what researchers estimate is the associated reduction in your life expectancy:

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/2/5862026/sitting-vs-standing-health-risks-dangers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=wednesday

Television Viewing and Time Spent Sedentary
 in Relation to Cancer Risk:

A Meta-analysis
Daniela Schmid and Michael F. Leitzmann

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/7/dju098.full?_ga=1.42982689.527235840.1397574100
 

 Science Reveals What Sitting All Day at Work

Actually Does to Your Body


http://mic.com/articles/91703/science-shows-what-happens-to-your-body-after-sitting-all-day-at-work?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

 
Killer Habit: 
 Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day
and what you can do about it

What to do

But there is some good news. Studies have found that simply interrupting your sitting time with short breaks of movement—just standing or walking slowly—has beneficial effects. In a 2008 study published in Diabetes Care, researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia equipped 168 adults with an accelerometer, measuring their every move for seven consecutive days. Those who took more breaks from sitting had narrower waists, and lower body mass index, triglycerides and glucose tolerance—all important measures for obesity and metabolic health. The average length of their breaks: just four and a half minutes.

Read More:   http://qz.com/223160/why-not-even-exercise-will-undo-the-harm-of-sitting-all-day-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Television viewing time 
and reduced life expectancy: a life table analysis

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/13/927.full
 


What are the risks of sitting too much?
Answers from James A. Levine, M.D., Ph.D.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/expert-answers/sitting/faq-20058005

Sitting all day is really bad for you. 
Here's why

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/2/5862026/sitting-vs-standing-health-risks-dangers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=wednesday

 
http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/files/henson.pdf
 

Binge Watching Your Favorite TV Shows Could Be Killing You! Darn It, Science!

http://perezhilton.com/fitperez/2014-06-26-binge-tv-watching-dangerous-fatal-killing-you#.U7VuS7H5d6A