When it comes to Tesla, the first thing that may come to mind is the Tesla electric car that has been hot in recent years.
The reason why the founder of this company named the company "Tesla Motors" is to commemorate the great scientist Nikola Tesla.
The name Nikola Tesla may be unfamiliar to everyone, but for people such as Einstein or Edison, everyone is familiar with it.
However, compared to Tesla, Einstein can only be regarded as a "younger brother", and Edison is even more a "brother in brother".
Today we will take a look at the magic of this man who is closest to God.
On July 10, 1856, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and wild storms, Tesla was born in a small town in Croatia.
When he was a child, he was a very peculiar child, and he was able to generate many strange pictures and inspirations in his mind, such as always seeing some illusions.
And his ability to fantasize is of great help to his learning, the average person thinking about the problem may need to be tested, and he only needs to imagine in his mind to complete the purpose of the experiment.
Soon after joining the work, he successfully designed the first model of the induction motor.
The employer, Charles Bacherot, regarded him as a lover and recommended it to the world-renowned inventor Edison for his better development.
In the letter of recommendation, he said: "I know that there are two great people in the world, one is you, and the other is this young man. ”
In this way, two natural enemies began to meet.
It's just that compared to Edison, Tesla at this time is just emerging, and he is an unknown hairy boy.
A love-hate feud with Edison
So Edison hired Tesla and arranged for him to work at Edison Machinery.
Tesla began to design simple electrical appliances for Edison, and he progressed quickly, and it wasn't long before he was able to solve some of the company's very difficult problems.
Although Edison was the king of invention at that time, he was essentially a businessman, the light bulb was actually not invented by him, and there were many engineers like Tesla, who was the owner of the light bulb company, so many patents were registered in the name of Edison.
Tesla felt that it would be the world of alternating current in the future, so he wanted Edison to fund him to complete the design and experiment of alternating current.
But Edison looked at him as a hairy boy, a little despised, so he said to Tesla, you help me improve the DC motor, after improving the DC motor, I will give you 50,000 US dollars.
After Tesla heard this, he worked around the clock, sleeping only four hours a day, and then in less than a year, he really redesigned the DC generator, and Edison was very satisfied after reading it.
Tesla said, then can you give me $50,000?
But then Edison said it was American humor and refused to pay Tesla $50,000.
Tesla left Edison's company and set up an electrical company to do its own ALTERNA.
He went everywhere to give speeches to promote alternating current, but no one believed him.
Later, someone finally noticed Tesla's talent, and this person was George Westinghouse, a famous American entrepreneur at Westinghouse.
He was very optimistic about Tesla, so he gave him $1 million to try alternating current, and eventually they successfully developed alternating current.
The advantages of alternating current over direct current are much greater, and Edison mainly makes money by selling direct current and light bulbs, so Edison is particularly afraid of alternating current.
So he took various measures to suppress Tesla, in order to tell people that alternating current is particularly dangerous, do not use alternating current.
Began to publicly execute large animals, using alternating current to connect to elephants, electrocuting elephants; even through their own relationships to buy Congress through, let the United States pass a bill, the United States death row inmates are directly electrocuted by alternating current.
In this way, the masses will have a fear of alternating current.
Until 1893, the United States was going to open a world expo, hoping to light up more than 100,000 light bulbs in the expo park.
Edison was unable to produce such a large current on direct current, so Tesla took over this responsibility, and finally lived up to expectations and lit all the light bulbs in the park.
At this point, the "current war" was finally won with Tesla's alternating current, and Tesla became a very famous person in the world at that time.
Due to the previous "current wars", Tesla's dislike of Edison was in his bones.
In 1915, because of Tesla and Edison's outstanding contributions to electricity, the United States wanted to award the Nobel Prize to the two of them, but Tesla refused to accept the award with Edison, so the award was not awarded to Edison in the end.
Tesla coils, artificial lightning
During the period of Tesla and Edison's fighting method, he was not idle, and invented the very famous "Tesla coil".
Tesla used these coils for innovative experiments such as electrical illumination, fluorescence spectroscopy, X-rays, high-frequency AC current phenomena, electrotherapy and wireless power transmission, and the transmission and reception of radio signals.
In 1898, Tesla invented wireless remote control technology.
In 1899, he successfully produced ball lightning.
The following year, Tesla stepped up its research on controlling the current, getting a strong risk of 1,000 feet around the world, this time achieving an artificial lightning effect.
Wireless Communications—Wireless transmission
Later, the American capital tycoon Morgan found Tesla.
Morgan was a man of great wealth, and he felt that he would definitely be the world of wireless communication in the future, so he asked Tesla to help him study wireless telegraphs.
He felt that he could make a lot of money by wireless telegraphy.
Tesla was given $150,000 and a large tract of land for him to experiment with.
Then Tesla built a tower in that place, 57 meters high, with a hemisphere with a diameter of 20 meters, which is the famous Walden Cliff Tower.
At that time, Tesla wanted to use Morgan's resources to study the super plan of global wireless power transmission through this tower.
If the experiment is successful, then the world will not use the wire network, and radio energy can be easily used.
Mobile phones, electric vehicles, and other equipment that uses electricity as an energy source can be transmitted and charged wirelessly at any time without carrying a battery.
Tesla has been quietly researching here since the beginning, and the secrecy work is particularly good, not allowing anyone to come near.
Later, nearby residents reported that they often saw 60-meter-long lightning at night, floating around on the top of this tower, frightening them to sleep badly and not knowing what the tesla was doing.
Shortly after the construction of the Waldenknife Tower, Tesla had not yet worked out this wireless transmission.
On December 12, 1901, an Italian scientist named Marconi completed an experiment on transatlantic radio transmission.
Since Marconi successfully completed the experiment before Tesla, Morgan stopped funding the Nikola Tesla experiment.
At this time, Tesla's experiment was not completed, and the research room suddenly caught fire, and all the data in it was basically burned.
Marconi won the 1909 Nobel Prize for this technique of radio data transmission.
Later, Tesla sued Marconi, saying that Marconi was actually using his own research results.
In 1945, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tesla, ruling that Tesla was the inventor of wireless communications.
In fact, Tesla has already researched the technology of wireless communication, but did not report to Morgan, and wanted to use Morgan's resources to continue to study its own wireless transmission technology, but unfortunately it backfired.
Morgan may also know what Tesla is doing, but he has been consuming resources, which is of no use to him and cannot make money for him, so he cut off the funding for Tesla through the Marconi incident.
Niagara Power Station
Under the thinking of Morgan, the world's financial oligarch, Tesla used nine inventive technologies to build the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station.
Hydropower plants produce enough electricity per day to supply 1/4 of the total demand of New York in the United States and Ontario, Canada.
The construction, which has been more than 100 years old, is still working as usual.
The uninterrupted production of endless natural energy is a major mark of human science in the past hundred years.
Dead light machine
It was just in time for World War II, and Tesla envisioned controlling lightning and using it to attack enemy planes.
But the president of the United States at that time listened to Einstein's words and went to build an atomic bomb.
However, according to the information written in Tesla's own information, this dead light machine should have been successfully developed.
A team of young scientists in the United States built a scaled-down version of The Walden Cliff Tower, and it turned out that this could really make a nearby flying machine explode directly.
Later, in his later years, Tesla's research field was a bit exaggerated.
The most important part of the study of the dynamic theory of gravity is the design of space teleportation systems and gravitational gate systems, including the design of anti-gravity and artificial gravity devices.
A device that communicates with dead people, a device that communicates with aliens, and he says he receives signals from aliens, and he says aliens have been monitoring Earth.
(Look at the drawings he studied, you know, why do you say that you have never seen aliens and say that the alien's flying machine is a flying saucer, maybe Tesla really communicated with aliens, is studying alien flying machines)
After reading the article, the chief scientist of the United States went so far as to directly list it as top secret and prohibit it from being published to the outside world.
Agents were even sent to track and monitor until 1943, when Nikola Tesla died inside a hotel in Manhattan, New York, USA.
The day after his death, the FBI rushed in and took all his belongings with him, including 80 boxes of research materials and specialized equipment.
The FBI's first director immediately announced that Tesla's information would be set as top secret.
So is this 80 boxes of information hiding Tesla's ultimate weapon? This is unknown.
In Tesla's lifetime, there were nearly 1,000 invention patents, large and small.
And if you add up the inventions that he has sold or have no record, then this number should be able to reach more than 1500.
He took the world's first X-ray photographs, invented the first wireless controller, engine, spark plug, neon lights, and more.
He has contributed to various fields such as robotic ballistics, information science, and physics.
Principles such as dead light machines, stealth aircraft, floating hovercraft, particles, and vertical weapons have also been proposed.
Even the Tunguska explosion was suspected to be related to him.
Therefore, some people even think that he single-handedly made the entire human race stride across the electrical age.
Many of his research is very advanced even now, and at the time of his death, the new China had not yet been established, so it was not aimless for the United States to lead the Way for 100 years in cutting-edge technology.
China may surpass the United States in terms of economic scale in a few decades, but there is still work to be done on these cutting-edge technologies.
In today's scientific community, it is generally believed that if there is extraterrestrial life in the world, then it can be confirmed by two people, one is Leonardo da Vinci, and the other is Tesla.
If there really is a god in the world, then it must be Tesla, whose life is like the protagonist of the science fiction world, full of legend.