NIKOLA TESLA–THE MAN WHO ELECTRIFIED THE WORLD!!

Before coming to the U.S., Nikola worked for about a year for the French branch of the Edison Electric Light Co. The Edison Company was totally locked into DIRECT CURRENT (DC) and wanted nothing to do with Tesla's AC current.

Nikola Tesla's 3 great inventions were:

Tesla did not come to the United States to get rich from his great discovery. He was totally disinterested in money except to finance his invention. His main goal was to share his revolutionary invention with the world and make electricity do the work of mankind.

Tesla worked for many months and finally the problem was solved. Did Edison keep his promise and pay him for all his hard work?. . . absolutely not....Tesla quit the Edison Company in disgust:

After quitting the Edison Company, Tesla had to work as a manual laborer for a year digging the streets of New York to lay Edison's cables. This was the worst time in his life as a poor stranger in a strange land....He was befriended by the foreman of the work gang who persuaded him to form his own company.

George Westinghouse brought Tesla's polyphase system to the world!!

In spite of all the advantages of the AC system, Edison refused to acknowledge its superiority over his system, and inventor George Westinghouse of Pittsburgh came to his rescue. As a matter of fact, Edison and his boss Morgan sulked like spoilt children, and started what became known in U.S. history as the War of the Currents, or the battles between AC and DC.

By 1886, the Westinghouse Company was one of the biggest and most successful in the entire world.

Westinghouse was a Protestant Christian gentleman and totally unlike the robber barons of that era....His motto was the golden rule, and his employees shared in the success of his company. He believed in doing his good works in secret, and many charities throughout the country were helped by his largess.

He offered to buy all the AC patents from Tesla for the staggering sum of 1 million dollars cash and royalties of $1.00 per horsepower of electricity produced.

Unlike Edison, George Westinghouse was a man of his word, and offered Tesla a staggering sum for all his AC patents:

The decision to give the world alternating current put George Westinghouse on a collision course with Morgan and Edison.

The War of the Currents almost bankrupted the Westinghouse Company!!

The War of the Current pitted Morgan and Edison against Westinghouse and Tesla. No dirty trick was beneath them to ruin Westinghouse and Tesla.

Edison electrocuting an elephant in 1903.

The War of the Currents lasted from 1885 to 1912. Edison electrocuted thousands of animals to prove that AC was killer current. Edison's only invention was the electric chair.

William Kemmler was electrocuted in 1890.

One of the requirements was that Westinghouse get rid of the contract with Tesla calling for royalty payments of $1.00 per horsepower on all alternating current articles sold under his patents. Financial advisers pointed out that if the business which Westinghouse expected the company would do under the Tesla patents in the ensuing year was anywhere near as great as estimated, the amount to be paid out under this contract would be tremendous, totaling millions of dollars; and this, at the time of reorganization, appeared a dangerous burden, imperiling the ability which they were trying to attain for the new organization. Westinghouse strenuously objected to the procedure. This patent-royalty payment, he insisted, was in accordance with usual procedures and would not be a burden on the company, as it was included in costs of production, was paid for by the customers, and did not come out of the company's earnings. Westinghouse, himself an inventor of first magnitude, had a strong sense of justice in his dealings with inventors. (O'Neill, Prodigal Genius, p. 79).

In 1895, the Westinghouse Company and Nicola Tesla built the first hydroelectric alternating current system at Niagara Falls. Tesla was determined that the awesome power of the Falls should be harnessed to the awesome power of polyphase alternating current.

Tesla's wireless transmission of electricity

In 1899, in Pike's Peak, Colorado, Tesla demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting electricity through the earth without the use of wires....He chose Pike's Peak because of its remote location, and the availability of electricity from a local power station.

Tesla discovered that the earth was a very good conductor of electricity and that he could set the earth in electrical oscillation just like the mechanical oscillation that almost caused an earthquake in Manhattan.

When Tesla had demonstrated the feasibility of his wireless power system, he rushed back to New York to begin construction on a transmitter located at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, New York. Morgan stonewalled him and created a panic on Wall St. in 1907. Millionaire John Jacob Astor, Tesla's close friend and financier, died on the Titanic in 1912.

British spy Marconi is credited with the discovery of radio!!

After the War of the Currents, Tesla was bankrupt and Morgan controlled the nation's finances:

Morgan made inquiries of Tesla concerning his financial structure. There were, in those days, a limited number of strong financial groups who were playing a terrestrial game of chess with the world's economic resources; the discoveries of a genius like Tesla might well have a profound effect on the destinies of one or more of these groups, and it would be well for an operator in this field to know more of the inventor's commitments. Undoubtedly, it was a source of surprise and satisfaction to Morgan when he learned that Tesla was a lone operator and now entirely without funds needed to carry on his researches. (O'Neill, Prodigal Genius, p. 197).

Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937).

British spy Guglielmo Marconi was used by Morgan to "discover" radio transmission. Marconi's company was called the British Marconi Company and was financed by J.P. Morgan. After Tesla's death, the Supreme Court did grant him priority for the discovery of radio transmission.

Marconi Towers circa 1903.

Morgan and his backers at the Bank of England realized the deadly military implication of using electricity as a weather weapon. Tesla even mentioned the possibility of using electricity to bring rainfall of desert areas of the planet. A weather weapon is the most diabolicaly clever of all methods of warfare because no nation can prove that it is under attack.

Tesla's financier John Jacob Astor was drowned with the Titanic!!

Tesla stayed at the Waldorf Astoria hotel and commuted to his laboratory in downtown Manhattan. The hotel was owned by millionaire John Jacob Astor IV who was a close friend and financier of Tesla:

Morgan's modus operandi was very simple: lure : John Jacob Astor aboard the Titanic and sink her in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The White Star line was owned by J. P. Morgan. At the last moment, Morgan decided not to sail on his ship....Madeleine survived, and according to John Jacob Astor's will, Madeleine would have received income from a $5,000,000 trust fund as long as she did not remarry.

Tesla had a very timely death in 1943

Tesla hoped to live way past 100 because his electrotherapy invention kept him youthful and mentally alert even at the age of 87. He was still inventing when he met a very timely death in his hotel room.

The New Yorker hotel in 1943.

In 1943, Tesla should have been the richest man in the world. Instead he lived in a small suite in the New Yorker hotel. Tesla was still inventing when he met a very untimely death in his hotel room. A few months earlier he was almost struck and killed by taxi.

Nikola Tesla in old age.

The theft of Nikola Tesla's inventions was one of the worst cases of industrial espionage in the entire history of the world.

All of Tesla's papers were confiscated by the FBI after his death!!

As Tesla approached his final years, most of his close friends and benefactors were dead. The man who had electrified the world was almost forgotten by the world....Most of his last days were spent feeding the pigeons in Bryant Park, in front of the public library on Fifth Ave.

John G. Trump (1907–1985).

One of the first men on the scene after the timely death of Tesla was a man named John G. Trump. Trump was an electrical engineer and a graduate of Columba University. Trump turned all the papers over to Vannever Bush, who used Tesla's technology to jump start the Cold War against Russia.

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974).

The great discoverer went to meet the Creator of electricity on Jan. 7, 1943.

Funeral services were held for the great Serb on Jan. 12, 1943, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Tesla was never married, and he had no direct heirs. He left no will, so all his papers were seized by the FBI, and shipped to Washington City, where they were classified as TOP SECRET:

The FBI is a clone of MI5 and responsible for domestic spying and they work closely with their counterparts in Britain.

Most of his great inventions like radar were later developed by the British. His death ray is now used by the Pentagon to shoot down Russian rockets!!