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I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

— Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, July 10th, 1931.

Additional information can be seen at Nikola Tesla's PowerPedia entry

Dr. Nikola Tesla : The man who invented the twentieth century is now shaping the twenty-first century as the "Father of Free Energy.

Dr. Nikola Tesla not only wanted to give the world free energy, Tesla developed components of technology whereby it could be accomplished. Tesla was a physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer of unusual intellectual brilliance and practical achievement. He was of Serb descent and most of his work was conducted in the United States.

Introduction

Tesla's investors dropped the project when they realized there was no way to meter the power to make money on the end user. We've been trying to catch up for 100 years and are still far behind where he was with his understanding of radiant energy. With reportedly over 700 patents awarded him worldwide, no wonder it has taken us so long to catch up. The man who shaped the twentieth century, with his invention of the radio, radar, x-ray, AC power, and the induction motor, is now shaping the twenty-first century as we finally begin implementing his methods of tapping and distributing free energy.

Overview Links

• Nikola Tesla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) - Encyclopedic entry at Wikipedia.

• PBS Special on Tesla (http://pesn.com/2005/02/25/6900063_Tesla_Master_of_Lightning/) - PBS ran a special on Tesla in 2000, which took a comprehensive look at the life, work and legacy of this controversial electrical genius. Reprint of original press release.

• Nikola Tesla: A Brief Bio: (1856-1943) (http://www.frank.germano.com/nikolatesla.htm) - by Frank Germano

Inventions of Nikola Tesla

• My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla - Available for reading online (http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html), also for sale (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0910077002/greaterthingsboo) in paperback. (Johnston, Ben [Ed.]. Hart Brothers Publishing, October, 1982. ISBN 0910077002)
• The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla - 1894 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564597113/greaterthingsboo), by Thomas Commerford Martin; Kessinger Publishing Company, March, 1997. ISBN 1564597113.

Patents

Tesla accumulated in excess of 700 patents.

• List of Tesla's Patents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_patents) at Wikipedia.
• List of Tesla's Patents and Papers (http://www.tesla.hu/tesla/tesla.htm) - Site is in Hungarian, but links are in English.

Free Energy Related Inventions

• The Deliberate Curtailment of Nikola Tesla's Primary Energy Source - Tom Bearden and Leslie Pastor discuss how the present electrical engineering model (and practice) was severely curtailed to exclude overunity (COP>1.0) electrical power systems that take their excess electromagnetic energy directly from their interaction with the active medium (vacuum/spacetime).
  

Radiant Energy

• PowerPedia:Radiant Energy
• Directory:Radiant Energy
• OS:Radiant Energy
• Radiant Energy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant_energy) - described at Wikipedia does not take into account some of the primary effects discovered by Tesla.

Nikola Tesla had a special conversion tube for radiant energy. Its function was to convert a normal electric current into radiant energy. This tube had a sphere of copper for an electrode and a sphere of carbon for its counter-electrode. (Does anyone know which was the anode and which was the cathode? Powerful magnets were arranged to create a magnetic field perpendicular to the discharge path between the electrodes. This is similar to a maser except that instead of swirling the electrons in a magnetic field to release light the electrons are "disintegrated" into light. This means a very large quantity of "radiant energy" (high energy photons) is produced from the electron. How? The electron is not a particle it is a self-sustaining vortex of aether. The electron spins in a vortex absorbing aether from the medium to sustain itself. By sending a stream of electrons at high voltage against a magnetic field, it interferes with the electrons ability to sustain itself; it becomes light. For more information on this you can look up data from Peter Lindemann or Roentgen (the German who investigated electrons then called "cathode rays" and believed contrary to the British that electrons were vortices).

Magnifying Transmitter

Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnifying_Transmitter) is the largest Tesla Coil ever built (a variation). Located in Tesla's Colorado Springs lab, it measured 52 feet in diameter and produced lightning bolts more than 100 feet long. According to accounts, Tesla used it to transmit tens of thousands of watts of power wirelessly. It was the final basis for the Wardenclyffe tower.

See also Directory:Wireless Transmission of Electricity

Wardenclyffe

The Wardenclyffe Tower was meant to be the start of a global system for wireless telecommunications and a national (and later global) system of towers broadcasting power to users as radio waves. Instead of supplying electricity through a current grid system, users would simply "receive" power through antennas on their roofs. The tower was scrapped for metal to be used in WWII (so that today we can war over oil). Today, its principles are implemented by HAARP, which is used for weather modification, and was recently bought by the Carlyle Group from the U.S. Govt.

• Wardenclyffe Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower) - encyclopedic entry at Wikipedia.
• Directory:Wardenclyffe Tower - at PESWiki. Tower was designed for worldwide wireless transmission of power.

Technologies Not Yet Fully Tapped

Tesla Turbines

• Directory:Tesla Turbines - Rather than using blades and friction, the Tesla Turbine uses parallel, closely spaced disks that tap viscosity of the gas passing by.
  

Wireless Lighting

Tesla invented cordless gas discharge lamps.

Jeff Bahary of ElectroTherapymuseum (http://electrotherapymuseum.com/) has replicated this device and says that it is a feasible technology that should be implemented today.

Extraterrestrial Radio Transmitter

See PESWiki article: Teslascope -- Extraterrestrial Radio Transmitter - Radio transmitter designed by Nikola Tesla and featured on his 75th birthday in Time Magazine, was intended to communicate with extraterrestrial life on other planets. Speak into one end, and the signal goes out the other end as a cosmic ray emitter, and vice versa.

Dynamic Theory of Gravity

Tesla's work on flying craft is perhaps the least well known, and perhaps the most revolutionary in how it would change the way we live if it were implemented today. As of this date, Tesla's work in this area is still classified by the U.S. Government.

• http://www.netowne.com/technology/important/
• Wikipedia > Dynamic Theory of Gravity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_theory_of_gravity)

There are several references to an "ideal flying machine" Tesla wanted to develop (see (http://www.pritchardschool.com/Teslas_Flying_Machine.pdf)). It had no "sustaining planes, wings, propeller nor gas bag". Tired of all the recurring hostilities and hoping that with such a machine these wars could be finally ended, Tesla proposed his ideal flying machine for a patent at the Swiss patent office. Prior to this, he had proposed his machine to the American government (as he always did with his inventions) but nobody there believed him. Even after his death his discovery remained unnoticed to the American government until reports started coming in about strange flying objects in the European skies. Nearly one year after his death, all his notes and dossiers (truckloads) were hastily transferred from the Office of Alien property warehouse where they were stored at his death to a secured place, and all of them were classified, and are still today.

See also: PowerPedia > Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity

Telegeodynamic

Telegeodynamics is a system for geophysical exploration. Based on his reciprocating mechanical oscillator, it employs a mechanical earth-resonance concept for underground seismic exploration. It is published in his book, Nikola Tesla's Teleforce & Telegeodynamics Proposals ISBN 0963601288. Tesla explained that a long sequence of small explosions could be used to find ore and create earthquakes large enough to destroy the Earth. He did not experiment with this as he felt there would not be "a desirable outcome". (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Moving_in))

Conventional Energy Inventions

Devices that have made it into everyday life in the modern world.

A.C. Power

The backbone of today's energy distribution system -- alternating current -- was invented by Tesla.

• Tesla did not "invent" AC (http://pesn.com/2006/06/12/9500280_New_Electricity_SullyDC/index.html#Tesla_did_not_invent_AC) - Alternating Current was being taught in schools, but it was through Tesla's invention of the AC induction motor and the superior efficiency of Tesla's designs that brought about the implementation of AC power over the opposition of DC investors. (PESN footnote; June 12, 2006)
• Alternating Current (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current) - an electrical current, where electrical charge oscillates (i.e., moves back and forth), rather than flowing continuously in one direction as is the case with direct current. (Wikipedia)

Radio

Tesla made the first public demonstration of radio communication in 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Claims have been made that Nathan Stubblefield/PESWiki (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Nathan_Stubblefield) Nathan Stubblefield/Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Stubblefield) [invented radio before either Tesla or Marconi, but his device seems to have worked by induction transmission rather than radio transmission. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio))

X-ray

• X-ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray) - Wikipedia describes Tesla's discovery process.

Radar

Tesla conceived of radar in 1917, and built the first primitive device in 1934. ([1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Radar|Wikipedia))

Tesla Coil

A Tesla Coil is a high-voltage, air-core, self-regenerative resonant transformer that generates very high voltages at high frequency. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil))

Induction Motor

Tesla built the first induction motor (electric motor), invented in 1882.

• Induction Motor - Wikipedia entry

Solar

• Tesla's Solar Ideas - According to The Electrical Experimenter (1916), in addition to his prolific electrical work, Tesla patented a sun motor. The article also discusses the Shuman-boy's engine and sun boiler installed in Egypt with output of 100 horsepower.
  

Military Inventions

Tesla Shield

An electromagnetic shell which armaments could not penetrate. Tesla shields would transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. ([2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Views_on_war).)

Teleforce

A charged particle beam projector for "Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media." It was was primarily intended to be used as an instrument of national defense akin to an invisible "Chinese Wall of Defense". Tesla stated that nations, when detecting invading armies, could destroy their opponent's military units and reduce incoming aerial craft as far as 200 to 250 miles away. In 1937, Tesla remarked, "But it is not an experiment ... I have built, demonstrated, and used it. Only a little time will pass before I can give it to the world." (Wikipedia > Teleforce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce).)

Death Ray

• FBI: We Don't Have Tesla's Death Ray (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/fbi-we-dont-hav.html) - As part of its centennial celebration, the FBI just released a list of the "Top Ten Myths in FBI History." Among other things, the list debunks the silly urban legend that the FBI spies on innocent Americans -- you know, like war protestors and people with phones. "We won't have a 'file' on you unless you're a spy or terrorist or criminal or are suspected of being one." Myth #10) The FBI has Nikola Tesla's plans for a "death ray." (Wired; July 24,2008)
  

Tesla was ignored by the US War Department when he told them had been working on some form of teleforce weapon, or death ray. But when he wound up dead in his apartment a few days later, they classified his documents Top Secret. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Death_and_afterwards))

The concept of a death ray is generally portrayed as some form of directed energy weapon that projects energy at a person or object in order to destroy them. Tesla's iteration was apparently related to his research into ball lightning and plasma. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_ray))

Other Discoveries

Extraterrestrial Signals

In the Colorado Springs lab, Tesla recorded what he concluded were extraterrestrial radio signals and announced his findings in some of the scientific journals of the time. [3] (http://www.teslasociety.com/mars2.htm) He noted measurements of repetitive signals from his receiver which are substantially different from the signals he had noted from storms and earth noise. Specifically, he later recalled that the signals appeared in groups of clicks 1, 2, 3, and 4 clicks together. He published these findings and his interpretations in an article: "A Giant Eye to See Round the World", Albany Telegram; Feburary 25, 1923.

Collections

Electrotherapy Museum

Jeff Bahary of ElectroTherapymuseum (http://electrotherapymuseum.com/) has refurbished or built to era specs around 100 Tesla devices, most all of which are in functioning order. His collection also includes:

• The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum DVD: Over 1 Gigabyte of text and photos; 2.5 Gigabytes of Multimedia; 25,000 files in 1000 folders.
• The Turn Of The Century Tesla Library: Over 5.000 pages of rare documents.
• The Turn Of The Century Patent Collection: Over 300 pages of Tesla-related patents.
• Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy And Forgotten Tesla Technology Movies: Over 3 dozen movies.

Tesla Societies

• Tesla Society - An index of the various Tesla Societies worldwide, including new Utah group; with invitation to start your own local group for social mingling with others who are interested in cutting-edge, clean energy technologies in the tradition of Nikola Tesla.

Coverage

• Wireless Transmission: A Century of Power Politics Tussles Over "Free" Energy's Price Tag (http://pesn.com/2006/08/03/9500295_wireless_transmission/) - Hidden political interests repeatedly block attempts to bring this energy-saving and cost-saving technology into being. How long will the drama continue before North Americans are able obtain access to that which Russians scientists have already achieved? (PESN; Aug. 2, 2006)

• Electricity 'war' victor given his due in L.A. (http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_4115644) - Article in Daily News features Edson Andre Johnson, who has been championing Nikola Tesla, seeking for a global adoption of July 10, Tesla's B-day, as International Energy Independence Day. (Daily News; July 31, 2006)

• News Coverage of Nikola Tesla's 150th Birthday (http://pesn.com/2006/07/12/9500291_Nikola_Tesla_150th_B-day/) - Stories from around the world by various news agencies, celebrating one of the most brilliant scientists who ever lived. Celebrated as the father of the 20th century, with his AC power and radio, he is also the father of free energy -- a probably foundation of the 21st century. (PESN; July 12, 2006)

• Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla (http://ottawastart.com/story/3641.php) - Vancouver theatre offering opens March 21 and runs until Saturday, April 1. (Ottawa Start; Mar. 17, 2006)

• 8.htm Writer Sees Livermore as Good Place to Honor Tesla (http://www.independentnews.com/Newspaper) - Edson Andred Johnson, key promoter of International Energy Independence Day, to be held annually on July 10, points out that the Livermore, California area has numerous things named after Tesla and should thus lead the way. (The Independent; March 16, 2006)

• Tesla celebrated all this year (http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=33949&dd=02&mm=03&yyyy=2006) - As the birth place, Belgrade will host a ceremony on July 10, which will be attended by some of the most prominent scholars from around the world. (B92; Mar. 2, 2006)

• James McCanney Announces Plans to Replicate Tesla's Tower (http://pesn.com/2005/05/01/6900091_James_McCanney_Tesla_Tower/) - Having written a book on the subject, he now intends to build a full-scale version of this tower that he says will both tap into free energy and disseminate it wirelessly. Counterpoint presented. (PESN; May 1, 2005)

• Inventor of Dreams (http://winyurl.com/5j28y) - "Nikola Tesla, the father of today's AC electrical system and other key inventions, often failed to bring his visionary ideas to real-world fruition." (Scientific American; March 2005)

• Untold story of Edison (http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050305/LIFESTYLES/503050409/1075) - Brilliant Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla brought out the worst in our famous inventor. (News-Press, Florida; Mar. 5, 2005)

• Raconteur of Dot-Com World Takes On Thomas Edison (http://winyurl.com/5uxam) - Addresses how because of how invested he was he pridefully took on Tesla in the DC v AC battle and lost. (New York Times; Feb. 21, 2005)

Movies About Tesla

Tesla: Mad Scientist of the Guilded Age (http://www.netsense.net/tesla/teslatest.mov) - 10-minute online video documentary (1984) by Marc Seifer, Ph.D. (http://www.marcseifer.com), author of Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806519606/greaterthingsboo). A brief synopsis of perhaps the most brilliant and prolific scientist ever, whose earlier inventions of AC power and radio have yet to be superseded his subsequent, even greater innovations.
Tesla Conspiracy (http://www.teslaconspiracy.com/) - Feature film being produced will present a fictional story to highlight the suppressed technologies of one of the most brilliant and hushed scientists of all time.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000083C6E/pureenergysys-20) (1979) - Outstanding. Focuses on AC/DC war with Edison, and Wardenclyffe. Music is awful. Credits are not in English, and one brief portion of movie is spoken in German, with no subtitles. (Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70023692&trkid=6243))
Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009LDJ4Y/pureenergysys-20) - You have to look past the poor lettering and other low-quality production facets of this movie. Content-wise, it does a great job providing an accurate and helpful documentary of the life of one of the most incredible inventors of all time. (Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70023677&trkid=189533))
Tesla: Master of Lightning - PBS Documentary (not available on DVD yet)

Books about Tesla

• Tesla: Man Out of Time (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743215362/pureenergysys-20), by Margaret Cheney
• Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806519606/pureenergysys-20), by Marc Seifer, Ph.D. (http://www.marcseifer.com), whose doctoral dissertation was on Tesla. Also director of Tesla: Mad Scientist of the Guilded Age (http://www.netsense.net/tesla/teslatest.mov), a 10-minute online documentary.
• Tesla books (http://www.teslasociety.com/book.htm) - index by TeslaSociety.com

Twenty First Century Books

Specializes in Publishing Tesla's Works and Related

• Selected Tesla Writings (http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/contents.htm)
• Selected Tesla Patents (http://www.tfcbooks.com/patents/contents.htm)
• Tesla Books (http://www.tfcbooks.com/mall/booklist.htm)
• Tesla FAQ (http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/question.htm)
• Tesla on AC (http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/nt_on_ac.htm)

Comments

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Related Sites

• List of articles related to Nikola Tesla at Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia's list of related sites. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#External_links_and_resources)
• The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century (http://www.robertlomas.com/Tesla/presentation/index.htm)
• AmericanAntigravity.com feature page on Tesla (http://www.americanantigravity.com/tesla.html)
• Tesla.hu (http://www.tesla.hu/) (pages are in Hungarian but patents and documents are in English)
• Thoughts on Nikola Tesla by Branko (http://free-ri.htnet.hr/Branko/index.html) - covers Tesla's internal combustion engine; energy from space, flying machine, energy transmitter, windmill, proposal for production of iron and aluminum.

Directories

• Nikola Tesla (http://www.energyplanet.info/Free_Energy/Nikola_Tesla/) - A visual directory of Nikola Tesla websites. (EnergyPlanet.info)

See also

• PowerPedia:Nikola Tesla - encyclopedia entry at PESWiki
• PowerPedia:Tesla's Flying Machine
• Directory:Wireless Transmission of Electricity
• Global Energy Independence Day held each year on July 10, the birth date of Nikola Tesla.
• Nikola Tesla and my thoughts (http://free-ri.htnet.hr/Branko/index.html); Tesla combustion engine, Energy of space, Flying machine ...

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