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Serbian banknote currently in use | Nikola Tesla
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Fun facts about Nikola Tesla: He was really funny
After dining with writer and poet Rudyard Kipling, he wrote this in a correspondence to a close friend:
April 1, 1901
My dear Mrs. Johnson,
What is the matter with inkspiller Kipling? He actually dared to invite me to dine in an obscure hotel where I would be sure to get hair and cockroaches in the soup.
Yours truly,
N. Tesla
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere āstickā in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Nikola Tesla, Liberty, February 9, 1935 (via royalrex)
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i guess the real question is how can you not like tesla
he thought women would eventually rule the world because weāre the dominant sex
he liked pigeons
he was a vegetarianĀ
he was a babe
he was shy
he hated edisonĀ
heās perfectĀ
Yup, as long as youāre ok with that time he went bonkers and tried to build a death ray.
Are you serious the death ray was the best part
A small selection of brilliant scientists from across the centuries. No doubt our world would be significantly less awesome without their contributions. More sets yet to come.
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ENTER OTIS T. CARR
āMen of Mysteryā takes up the story of one Otis T. Carr as well. Carr was one of the disciples Tesla left behind to carry on his work after the legendary inventor passed away.
āAfter Nikola Teslaās death in 1943,ā the book reads, āit seemed as if there would be no one to carry on with his legacy. At that time, Tesla was forgotten; his accomplishments marginalized by those who sought to steal or suppress the great manās inventions and theories. One man, however, was not afraid to try to continue with Teslaās dreams. This man was Otis T. Carr.ā
Carr was born in 1904 in Elkins, West Virginia, and briefly attended the Ohio School of Commercial Art in Cleveland before joining a group of artists in New York City. He claimed to have first met Tesla in 1925, while working as a hotel clerk in Manhattan.
āTesla had a penchant for feeding pigeons in a nearby park,ā the book continues, āand Carr was asked to obtain a bag of unsalted peanuts so that Tesla could feed his beloved birds.ā
In spite of Teslaās reclusive ways, the two men developed a friendship that lasted until Teslaās death. Carr and Tesla would discuss science and technological developments for new forms of energy production. After Teslaās death, Carr wrote a book called āDimensions of Mystery: A Message for the Twentieth Century,ā a collection of poetry, allegorical stories and a report on the discovery of free energy, no doubt inspired by his relationship with Tesla.
Sometime in the mid-1950s, Carr created OTC Enterprises, with the purpose of developing inventions using Tesla technology. While Carr was in no sense a scientist, and did not claim to be one, it is likely that Tesla had shared with his young friend ideas of utilizing new forms of energy to power a field propulsion generator. This sort of āantigravityā propulsion had been conceived by Tesla years before, but technology at that time prevented him from going beyond laboratory experiments. With Teslaās notes in hand, Carr was convinced that, with the help of engineers who were not afraid of a little original thinking, Teslaās dreams could be brought to fruition.
In May 1958, āFATE Magazineā published an article in which Carr claimed to have produced a form of antigravity that could power everything from hearing aids to space cruisers. Carr demonstrated a crude model of a circular motion machine which he said used a āfree energyā power source and could be applied to spacecraft, a spacecraft that he could himself build if given sufficient funding. The spacecraft would be able to fly among the planets in controlled flight. It could land or take off as desired, on the Earth, the moon or any planet in the Earthās solar system.
āCarr and his associates said their claims are based on the most simple, practical applications of natural laws and discoveries in science and mathematics,ā the FATE article continues. āThey have no formal education in science or engineering.ā
Margaret Storm, whose seminal biography of Tesla from an occult perspective has been quoted earlier, also writes of the relationship between Carr and Tesla.
āTesla is said to have talked but little in those years,ā she writes, ābut fortunately young Carr was not inhibited by any knowledge of this fact. He asked the great genius so many questions and listened with such rapt eagerness to every syllable that Tesla soon gave him a nickname ā āThe Sponge.ā This served as a little joke between two good friends, but actually the name was well-chosen, as Tesla realized when he selected it.ā
While Carr would come to proclaim in the late 1950s that free energy and space travel were now available to the world, thanks to Teslaās work and his own, there is little evidence that he was actually able to deliver on his promises, which must have somehow been suppressed if his claims were true. But Storm adds that men like Tesla, Matthews and Carr āmust serve as outposts of consciousness. They have human free will and can put forward inventions without imposing on the free will of others. It is up to humanity to accept or reject inventions which are offered in the open competitive market.ā
We have only the anecdotal āevidenceā as offered by Matthews and Storm and others that Nikola Tesla was actually an extraterrestrial left on the doorstep of his unsuspecting parents and that his genius had truly originated on another world. But no one can argue with the fact that a mythos has grown up around Tesla that casts him as a kind of messiah of our technological age, sent to lead us to a New Jerusalem of wonderworking machines, to a paradise where mankind has mastered all the forces that formerly stood in the way of our collective happiness. If such a thing is even remotely possible, one can only hope that Teslaās believers are right about him.
This is my current little project Iāve got going on, I have a huge list of scientists of various disciplines Iām slowly getting through and putting up on my Redbubble store. When Iāve finished my list Iāll start making sets to sell, but for now they are just available individually on tshirts.
A MACHINE THAT CAN READ MINDS
The idea of a machine that can read the minds, at least in visual terms, may indeed one day become a practical reality, though perhaps Tesla is a little too optimistic when he says it would "revolutionize" human relations. The ability to read one anotherās minds in such a fashion would more likely become a tool of oppression where "correct thinking" could be gauged and quantified. It also sounds like the kind of thing our present day Homeland Security would like to install in airports, giving them the ability to "see" into the mind of a given terrorist as he inevitably visualizes the mission he intends to carry out.
Another interesting item Tesla touches on in his autobiographical writings is the little-known fact that in his youth he was addicted to both gambling and tobacco. The gambling was ruining his finances, and the tobacco his health, so he quit both habits as a simple act of the will and had suffered no longings for either vice sense, something he said he continued to be proud of. His good health and mental sharpness continued well into his 80s, he said, because of his diet, which included lots of milk and fresh vegetables, and regular exercise, including swimming and long walks.
Given that Teslaās life was so much about the invention of new machines and groundbreaking technologies, it should perhaps come as no surprise that he often thought of himself as a machine. He used the term "automaton," and said he believed that all humans are an automaton of one kind or another. We are a pathetic form of life that is capable only of responding to outside stimuli that are far beyond our control and that nothing truly intelligent originates in us at all. This seemed to presage some 20>thĀ century schools of psychology that came later, particularly the Stimulus and Response theories of Pavlov and the Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner. While this is not exactly a flattering take on what makes us human, it is again a natural outgrowth of Teslaās life and work and smacks of a kind of "mechanical metaphysics."
Tesla also relates a sort of sad story from his boyhood. He was playing in the street with some neighborhood boys when one of the townās aldermen passed by. The alderman stopped to give each of Teslaās playmates a small silver coin, but when he looked in young Nikolaās eyes, he said, "Nothing for you. Youāre too smart."
This would become a pattern for Teslaās adulthood. He never married or had a romantic relationship with any female and never formed any close bond of friendship with a man. Margaret Storm calls it "aloneness," as opposed to "loneliness." Tesla needed to keep his emotional self to himself for the sake of his continual work, he said. And when work was going well, which it generally was, he was in a state of unending "rapture." His love for his work was all he needed to be psychologically and emotionally content.
There is the often told story that Tesla felt he was in contact with aliens from Mars, which he talked about publicly and suffered no small amount of ridicule for doing so. He was working at his lab in Colorado Springs when a device he had originally invented for detecting thunderstorms at great distances began to register signals that were numerically precise and repeated themselves just as precisely. There was no mistaking the fact that the signals were intelligently controlled and that he was meant to hear them. He immediately concluded that the signals were coming from Mars, then thought to be the most likely place in our solar system for intelligent life to exist. He later modified his opinion to say the signals may have been coming from somewhere much closer, which made them all the more ominous. He did not automatically assume the signals were sent with friendly intent, and the idea that the aliensā ships were possibly nearby was not a comforting one. Tesla said he did feel a sense of wonder and awe, however, being a witness to the first meeting of two very different worlds and the beginning of what could be a very long conversation between them.
One price Tesla paid for being open about such mysteries was being satirized in the popular entertainment world as a "mad scientist," always building his frightening contraptions, such as his "Death Ray," while never managing to quite defeat the hero, be he Superman or someone similar. The horror and science fiction movies of the period often included a Tesla Coil for atmosphere and spooky realism.
In any case, Timothy Green Beckley and Tim R. Swartz have done a marvelous job of putting together "Men of Mystery," which also includes material from the elusive Michael X, who had written about numerous paranormal and New Age subjects before disappearing from the field altogether when he encountered some intimidating agents of the unknown who frightened him into abandoning his research and writing altogether. But that, as they say, is another story.