For fans of Nikola Tesla and historians, a link has turned up to the files the FBI compiled on the brilliant scientist and inventor. The files are in three parts of about 250 pages each. Submit a story to Soylent if you turn up any interesting nuggets!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @07:31PM
*tumbleweed tumbles past*
(Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Sunday September 25 2016, @09:10PM
I always liked the story of how Nikola was made fun of in his college class for suggesting the use of alternating current. Something about the professor pretended Nikola was trying to create a perpetual motion machine. Well guess who won in the end.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @09:37PM
Edison?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @09:55PM
yeah, its a shame there is not much effort to provide DC power to many home electronics, except, of course, via AC conversion.
Its really inefficient to use an AC power source to charge a UPS (DC) to then convert that again to... AC, in case the power goes out, and then you boldly decide to charge your phone on it via an AC adapter, which converts it to DC again to charge your battery.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @09:00AM
The loss savings we get for ac-dc conversion won't even pay for the copper needed to do it with dc directly until a couple of decades pass.
(Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Monday September 26 2016, @01:11AM
Actually, Edison Electric Light Company which was for DC and Westinghouse Electric Company advocated for AC, and well, although DC is used in some places, as your wall socket shows, AC basically won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by gringer on Monday September 26 2016, @12:09AM
I landed on a random page (107), and came up with the following:
the propulsion mode of ball lightning involves electro-gravitic interaction, by which means air vehicles of revolutionary configuration can be constructed. There are no presently-known laws of physics that can account for the propulsion.... Incidentally Tesla's claim to setting up standing waves on the earth's surface (wireless power) was erroneous and involved techniques similar to that of project Sanguine, that is, using the earth's atmosphere as a waveguide ([redacted] is aware of our research).
Page 210 is particularly enlightening.
In general, this seems to be mostly discussion about Tesla, rather than discussion including Tesla. Page 217 suggests that there's not much point in looking for the latter either:
It was the considered opinion of a spokesman of those examiners "that there exist among Dr. Tesla's papers and posessions no scientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands."
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]