by Nicholas West on January 5, 2012, from ActivistPost Website
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Throughout space there is energy." Nikola Tesla, 1892
Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after his death.
Was he for real?
A crackpot?
Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?
We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day - namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius.
He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other "captains of industry."
Upon Tesla's death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, and to this day none of this research has been made public.
Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla's integrity - he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.
But let's take a look at what Nikola Tesla - a man who died broke and alone - has actually given to the world.
For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.
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.
Light
Of course, he didn't invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.
Tesla developed and used florescent 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.
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.
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day.
Marconi in 1909
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View full-sizeDownload Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi GCVO FRSA (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, electrical engineer, physicist, and politician, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio and winning the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". His work laid the foundation for the development of radio, television, and all modern wireless communication systems.
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 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.
Carnegie in 1913
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View full-sizeDownload Andrew Carnegie (English: /kɑːrˈnɛɡi/ kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.
Remote Control
This invention was a natural outcropping of radio.
Patent No. 613808 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.
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 appliances
water pumps
machine tools
power tools
disk drives
electric wristwatches
and compressors.
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.
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.
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, please sign this petition to demand that power brokers everywhere learn 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.
The petition has a goal of 25,000 signatures and needs your support, but whether or not it is reached please continue to add your voice by sharing this information with as many people as possible.
As they state:
Tell your friends, bring it up and discuss it at your next general assembly, do whatever you can to get the word out, organize locally to make a stand for the release of Nikola Tesla's research...
America is tired of corrupt corporate greed, supported by The American government, holding us back in a stagnant society in the name of profit... The Energy Crisis is a lie.
As an aside:
there are some who have pointed out that Tesla's experimentation with the ionosphere very well could have caused the massive explosion over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, which leveled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers, and may even have led to the much-maligned HAARP technology.
I submit that we would do well to remember that technology is never the true enemy; it is the misuse of technology that can enslave rather than free mankind from its animal-level survivalism.
