SPIN : Tesla versus The Brains of Today

[Box Cutta]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

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Additional notes from the author:

• If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time
• Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome.
• There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life.
• The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too.
• History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.
• X-rays: just to clarify, Tesla did not discover x-rays, but he was one of the early pioneers in its research.
• Cryogenic engineering: I'm referring to the cryogenic engineering that has to do with using liquified air to cool a coil and reduce its electrical resistance (Patent No. 11,865), not freezing people and waking them up in the future so they can fight Wesley Snipes.
• Transistor: Tesla's influence on the modern transistor can be found in patents 723,188 and 725,605. (a better explanation here)
• Radio: Tesla was the nicest geek ever until he decided to sue Marconi a few years later. 8 months after Tesla died, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patents on the invention of radio. So Tesla eventually won that battle, although he was dead by then.
• Tesla VS Edison: I could write a novel on the differences between Tesla and Edison, but seeing as how this comic is already huge I decided to leave many things out. For instance, Edison killed cats and dogs, but Tesla loved animals and had a cat as a child. Originally Tesla wanted to be a poet, but after getting zapped by static electricity from his kitty he was inspired to study the effects of electricity. One could vaguely construe that Tesla's cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived.
  Edison believed that fossil fuels were the future and that there were enough resources in South America to provide for the next 50,000 years. Tesla believed that renewable energy sources like hydroelectric, solar, and wind power were the future. This is remarkable because in the 1890s there was no such thing as "going green," so Tesla's ideas on conservation were very forward-thinking at the time.
• Lastly, a big thank you to Jane C. Daugherty for proofreading this article for me. If you want to learn things from the most awesome librarian this side of the North American tectonic plate, follow her on Twitter.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

telsa the gawd

 

[Blackking]

I think someone made a thread about this previously.... and even posted the same link.

but overall if you compare intelligence in 1920 to today.... today>

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I posted a similar summary in the Einstein thread...but never saw this graphic...

changed my avi to support this legend..have an old poster of him and am part serbian myself. i produced some of my best work while in slovenia as well, close to where he was when he came to that country..he is truly a personal inspiration to me and is one of the GOAT minds of all time.

like i said in the einstein thread, i have him essentially side by side with Da Vinci.

On a body as large as the sun, it would be impossible to project a disturbance of this kind [e.g., radio broadcasts] to any considerable distance except along the surface. It might be inferred that I am alluding to the curvature of space supposed to exist according to the teachings of relativity, but nothing could be further from my mind. I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved, is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

– Nikola Tesla

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/tesla-vs-einstein-the-ether-the-birth-of-the-new-physics

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Tesla's_Dynamic_Theory_of_Gravity

 

[Box Cutta]

I posted a similar summary in the Einstein thread...but never saw this graphic...

changed my avi to support this legend..have an old poster of him and am part serbian myself. i produced some of my best work while in slovenia as well, close to where he was when he came to that country..he is truly a personal inspiration to me and is one of the GOAT minds of all time.

like i said in the einstein thread, i have him essentially side by side with Da Vinci.



http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/tesla-vs-einstein-the-ether-the-birth-of-the-new-physics

What is it that you do? Are you a scientist? An artist?

His theories on gravity....

What if he was right and Einstein was wrong....

 

[CASHAPP]

 

[ThugLife]

Might cop this book

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Edison was such an a$$hole

 

[Fervid]

Funny and informative read.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

What is it that you do? Are you a scientist? An artist?

His theories on gravity....

What if he was right and Einstein was wrong....

He may very well be proven right in time

I completed about 30 pages of a book in about a week while there in a little town called Kamnik..it had some touches of quantum mechanics,math/the power and significance of logic/and a theory on the creation of the universe..I was becoming almost obsessive over the work (not only the theory and logic but also the exact word by word presentation of it) and decided to shelf it so I could better enjoy my time there..haven't really gone back to it much since, although the people I have given copies or a synopsis to have generally reacted like:

I recently went back to school and the founder of the philosophy division at the school was like you need to finish that...but, honestly, I think it's futile.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

@Box Cutta

I also "invented" this machine to be used by tennis pros and tennis clubs that I plan on caking off of eventually.

 

[Slystallion]

if all this stuff is true its amazing what people can achieve if they stay a virgin all their life...not even hating the fact that he never got distracted by relationship drama or the urge to have sex with females or dealing with children maximized his ability to create things...but damn its a shame he never got credit for anything...but if he did he might not have continued to invent things either

 

[bsmooth]

Dude doesn't get the reverence he deserves, I mean he built a machine that clones and teleports humans

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

if all this stuff is true its amazing what people can achieve if they stay a virgin all their life...not even hating the fact that he never got distracted by relationship drama or the urge to have sex with females or dealing with children maximized his ability to create things...but damn its a shame he never got credit for anything...but if he did he might not have continued to invent things either

He got a fair amount of praise during his time (albeit not enough) and has hundreds of patents, but didn't profit much off of them. I don't think he was in it for the money or the fame really..I just think he loved what he was doing and wanted to improve things in the world. His free energy idea exemplifies this the most. No one stood to profit from that much.