Nikola Tesla

I'm gonna watch this thread too

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>>2124716
>Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor
But that's Mikołaj Teslowski polish inventor of winged hussars and pope

Tesla was based and got jewed over hard by Edison.

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>>2124766
Stealing cars and history i see, his name was actually Niklas Teslaström, swedish inventor of Swedish Deluge and Falu red

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>>2124758
OP, lurking.

>>2124810
First you guys steal our vikings, and now this?
Don't be fooled OP, his name is actually Nikolaj Teslensen, and he is the Danish inventor of Lego and The Little Mermaid

>>2124716
For a long time, Nikola Tesla was overshadowed in the public eye by Thomas Edison as the "father of electricity". Thomas Edison was seen as THE electricity guy, single-handedly inventing the light bulb and ushering in a new age and an energy revolution.

Now, however, with the rise of the internet and changes in popular culture, Edison is scorned as a greedy businessman, all of whose inventions are ripoffs of Tesla's, while Tesla is an omniscient genius with a perfect memory that can harness the power of lightning as if he were Thor.

As is often the case when it comes to history, the truth lies somewhere between the extremes of public perception.

Edison may have competed fiercely with Tesla (and others) over the electricity market (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents) but he was also a legitimate inventor and held a number of useful patents in the field of electric and electromechanical engineering. He was not simply a greedy businessman, although he WAS the owner of the company that would grow to become General Electric, and invested in a great many projects which would later boost his wealth.

A perfect example of how he was both a scientist AND a businessman is his research related to rubber:

>Edison became concerned with America's reliance on foreign supply of rubber and was determined to find a native supply of rubber. He partnered with Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford (all three contributing $25,000 each) to create the Edison Botanic Research Corp.
Ah, so he just ponied up the money while the scientists did the real work! Typical-

>Edison did the majority of the research and planting, sending results and sample rubber residues to his West Orange Lab. Edison employed a two-part Acid-base extraction, to derive latex from the plant material after it was dried and crushed to a powder. After testing 17,000 plant samples, he eventually found an adequate source in the Goldenrod plant.
o-oh...

>>2124901
On Tesla: He was a very brilliant and gifted individual, that much is clear. He did invent or contribute to the invention of numerous important things that allow our current energy grid to exist. Such basic things as alternating current, remote radio controlled machines, and geothermal power were pioneered to some degree by Tesla.

However, he is often credited with inventions he did not create. Searching for what Tesla actually DID invent is often a minefield of conspiracy garbage, nationalistic showboating, and urban legends. Tesla did NOT single-handedly invent AC, or the transformer, or the induction coil, nor did he invent the loudspeaker or RADAR.

Furthermore, he was not without his faults. He was notoriously bad at managing money, and as money is required to fund any kind of research, it's a wonder he got anything done at all. He famously was given a loan by J.P. Morgan to construct a wireless power transmission tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower), and blew through the money very quickly. He then went back to Morgan and asked for more money, to which Morgan asked in return where the original money had gone. Tesla proceeded to blame J.P. Morgan for playing a part in the Panic of 1901 (in effect biting the hand that fed him), then asked him again for more money. Needless to say, Tesla never got that cash - and the tower never became operational.

The "Tesla vs. Edison" story that most people understand the War of Currents through nowadays is a very nice, easy, entertaining story to digest. It has an poor underdog hero, it has a big bad villain with lots of money, and it breaks down very complex decade-long processes involving numerous minor actors into a simple-minded puppet show that doesn't require a lot of effort to understand.

And that's fine for most. The current war is basically trivia at this point. But for those who want to know what really happened, you need to research, and understand that history is complicated.

Reminder that the only thing Serbs can feel proud about regarding Tesla is having such a shitty country their own great scientist ditched it as soon as he could.

probably more a question for /sci/ tbqh

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>>2124904
So how many Edison Lightbulbs can you fight in your ass at once?

>>2124716
He was ingenious. But also insane.
>tfw that faggot Edison destroyed both Tesla and Maxim because shekels

Also
>Serbian-American
He was both Serbian and Croatian (orthodox Serbian family that lived in Croatia) in his own words. He was not American by any margin. First you destroy him, and then you claim him. Fucking Americans, I swear.

>>2124766
Nicolas Taisselat was a proud frenchman.

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>>2124991
French lies
Nikolaus Tessler was famous German scientist.

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>>2124766
>Niklóz Teslac
>not a Hungarian genius

>>2125002
His name is Nick Tessle, and he was a true red-blooded American who loved baseball and mom's apple pie.

An interesting character but unfortunately worshipped by the kinds of people that self-label as geeks.

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>>2124906
I'm getting replies and this guy actually existed and is responsible for modern electricity. Don't see how that's science fiction. Kind of important history.

>>2125008
You mean Nikolas Tesele, the famous Turkish window cleaner, right guts?

>>2125021
No, filthy Turkroach. Nikolai Telsakov was famous vodka and Kalashnikov inventor from mother Russia.

>>2125025
Nick Teslington was British you semen slurping shit sniffer.
Fuck off commie shit

>>2124965
Moving to America makes him American, to a small degree.

>>2125013
/sci/ is the actual science board, sci-fi falls into /tg/, with fantasy.

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>>2125049
Oh. OK don't cross board much.

Best books on Tesla and the electrical arms race?

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I love this

>thread devolves into memeing

It might have been funny if I hadn't read at least two hundred threads like these on /int/.

Rule of thumb, don't even ask about him.

>>2124716
He was a beta cuck who espoused slave morality

Nikola Tesla was unironically virgin until death. He fell in love with a pigeon. He once said: "as long as she is alive, Ill have the will to live", referring to the pigeon

>>2124716
My grampa got that exact same moustache

>>2125485
Sexy.

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>>2124965
That didn't stop Croats from killing all the Serbs in his village in WW2

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>>2125025
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>>2125002
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>>2124766
is this a meme

>>2125478
He was also like 6'2" and 140 pounds, until his later years when he began to dine exclusively on milk, vodka, and saltine crackers, and died soon after.

>>2126605
Yeah, it's mocking Croats and Serbs.

You mean Niek Tessels right? The famous Dutch inventor of the windmill and weed.

He's fins. He did a lot of important early work on electricity and spent a lot of time on the equivalent of novelty toys. And he was just as much a shameless showboat as Edison.

>>2124716

Tremendously overrated minor 19th century inventor/crackpot. Primary cause of modern e-fame is his immense autism. Nowadays, if you're autistic but functional in spite of it, you bust be UBER EPIC BRILLIANT, as opposed to just being a sperg.

Let me put it this way. When Einstein first came out with general relativity, Tesla didn't believe it. Fair enough, quite a few other guys didn't at first. Tesla, however, believed that a better explanation for the odd orbital motions of Mercury that started the whole chain of reasoning was

>Aliens are using force-fields to move the planet around.

He was a lunatic that happened to get lucky with his AC system, and little more.

You're surely all talking about Nick Thompson right, the famous American inventor?

>>2127359
The very same who invented the Thompson submachine gun?

>>2127279
Lurkmoar faggot

>>2127279
He was brilliant, he just made the classic blunder of assuming that brilliance in one matter translates to brilliance in others.

You mean Nikorasu Tasalazuki, the venerable Japanese inventor of body pillows and tentacle hentai.

>>2124716
Edison>Tesla. Tesla gets all of the fedora support because of this dumb idea that he got ripped off and that Edison didn't actually invent anything. Edison was the superior inventor in terms of improving people's daily lives, in fact, he might be the greatest of all time in terms of that. Tesla may have been smarter and invented a few things that were more complex than Edison but he was also a complete nutjob and some of his ambitions (like free energy) we know now are impossible.

Tesla was kind of dumb. A fantastic engineer, but a dumb one.

Nioclás Testian was a proud Irishman and inventor of dying from the potato farce

It's quite weird to see a thread in /his/ about an obscure Irish inventor like Nioclás Ó Theasléach

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>>2124901
yeah basically this. thanks. didn't know about the rubber

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>>2128743
The eternal Mick ones again claims for their own a proud son of Scotland like Nicols MacTesloch

>>2125472
Jesus stop reading Nietzsche you edgy 14 yo

Nice to see Nguyễn Tế Lam, a legendary Vietcong who has over 300 confirmed kills on this Fingol throat singing board

I'm loving this Tesla country shitposting.

>>2128774
>implying /pol/acks actually read Nietzsche and not just his wikipedia page

>>2129198
OP, lurking again.

I know of him. Famous Atheist and usually pessimestic

>>2129636
>usually pessimestic
Nietzsche despised pessimism.