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Memorabilia of Tesla's life

1856 —— Tesla was born at midnight in July on 10 in a Serbian clergy family in Smivan, Lika province (Austria).

1875- 1878- studied in Graz technical school.

1882—— While walking in a park in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, Tesla discovered the reversible magnetic field.

1883- In Strasbourg, he was employed by Edison Continental Company and made the first model of induction motor.

1884-went to America and started working in Edison's laboratory.

1885-left Edison to set up his own company and began to produce multiphase AC motors and generators.

1888—— 16 On May 6th, a report entitled "AC power transmission and AC motor system" was given at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

1890-He published the results of physiological effects of high frequency electricity.

1891-gave a report entitled "experiment of extremely high frequency alternating current and its application in artificial wireless lighting", and applied for the patent of "star oscillator of vibrating transmitter".

1892—— I came to London and gave a report entitled "Luminescence and Other High Frequency Phenomena" at the Royal Academy of Sciences, a report on "Alternating Current Experiment at High Voltage and High Frequency" at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the same report in Paris.

1893- It caught the public's attention at the Chicago World Exhibition. He let high-frequency current pass through his body and demonstrated the reversible magnetic field model, which is the so-called "Tesla's rotating iron egg".

1895 —— On May 13, Tesla's laboratory in new york was destroyed by fire.

1897- He registered 20 invention patents in the field of radio engineering technology.

1898-registered wireless control technology (the experiment of remote control automatic boat was carried out in the lake of new york Central Park, and it was a great success. )

1899- completion of Niagara Hydropower Station.

1899- 1900- colorado springs's experiment.

1901-1905-Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island near new york.

1909- 1922- He only registered mechanical patents (pumps, tachometers, bladeless turbines).

1943 —— 65438+1On October 7th, Tesla died in new york Hotel.

19 12, Tesla and Edison were awarded the nobel prize in physics at the same time for their contributions to electricity, but both refused to accept the prize because they could not bear to share the honor with each other.

In addition to outstanding achievements in electricity, Tesla's inventions in other aspects are also quite amazing. He devoted his life to studying nonlinear problems (that is, the input is not proportional to the output), and once said that the earth can be divided into two parts. As early as 19 12, Tesla put forward: "If the vibration of objects and the resonance frequency of the earth are correctly combined, the ground will vibrate and fluctuate within a few weeks." 1935 Tesla drilled a deep well in his laboratory and put a steel casing in the well. Then, he blocked the wellhead and input vibrations of different frequencies into the well. Strangely, at a certain frequency, the ground will suddenly vibrate strongly and the surrounding houses will collapse. Some magazines at that time commented: "Tesla almost razed new york to the ground with an artificially induced earthquake". This is the famous Tesla experiment. This super transmission effect of small input and large output is called Tesla effect, which is the key to geophysical weapons, so Tesla is also the founder of long-range weapons.

Not only that, Tesla also invented Tesla transformer, AC electric motorcycle, modern computer foundation, wireless communication, solar system, radar device, robot, death ray and lie detector, and put forward the concept of electromagnetic radio frequency weapon ... These inventions and discoveries surpassed the technological era at that time, and some theories could not be perfectly answered even by the most advanced technology today. After Tesla's death, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation confiscated all his design drawings and experimental works, and the US military never stopped studying his papers. This also created a mystery for Tesla.

Although Tesla was born a genius, his fate is confusing. Tesla's fate is bumpy and his personality is eccentric, so his evaluation by later generations is obviously lower than his historical achievements. 1943 Tesla died alone in the hotel.

Nicholas? Tesla (1856- 1943) is an American of Yugoslav origin. He was a contemporary of Edison and a prolific inventor and scientist. Who doesn't know Edison? But few people know Tesla. He is a forgotten genius.

Nicholas? Tesla is a genius inventor who invented AC power generation and power supply system. The eccentric inventor also invented the basic devices of radio: fluorescent lamp, remote control guide device, adjustable mechanical vibration device, short-distance radio transmission device and so on.

Nicholas? Tesla is not only an inventor, but also a person who has special functions and tries to explain their functional phenomena.

Nicholas? Tesla's ancestral home is in Ricca province of Yugoslavia, and now he has settled in the United States. He was born in July of 1856 and 10, ranking fourth in Mirian village, Ricca province, and his eldest brother is Daniel.

Tesla has been suffering from similar phenomena for most of his life since he was a child.

He later pointed out: "I often encounter strong flashes, and various scenes appear in front of me, which makes me unable to see the real thing clearly and disturbs my thoughts and actions, which makes people feel particularly painful. These images are scenes of things and occasions that I actually see, not my imagination. If someone says a word to me, the scene of the object referred to in that sentence will emerge vividly in front of my eyes, and sometimes I can't tell whether what I see is true or not. This makes me extremely uncomfortable and anxious. I consult researchers who study psychology or physiology. But no one can make me satisfactorily explain this phenomenon ... "

Tesla's explanation for this phenomenon is that this scene is caused by the reflection of the brain on the retina when it is highly excited. These scenes are not hallucinations. Every time in the dead of night, funerals or other thrilling scenes he has seen will come alive before his eyes. If he held out his hand, the scene would still stay in space.

"If my interpretation method is correct," he wrote, "then any object conceived by one person can be projected on the screen and seen by others. Such progress will bring about fundamental changes in human relations. I am convinced that one day, such a miracle will come true. I can also say that I have made great efforts to solve this problem. "

In order to get rid of the tortured scene and get a moment of peace, the young Tesla had to indulge in the illusory world. Every night, he will set off for an imaginary trip, go to some new places, new cities and new countries, live there, meet some people and make some friends. "No matter how ridiculous it is, in fact, some people are as approachable to me as people in real life, and their voices and smiles are so real that they are not real at all."

This situation lasted until 17 years old, after which he devoted all his mind to invention. At that time, he was very happy because he found that he had a wonderful ability to imagine things: he could see them clearly in his mind without models, drawings and experiments, and they looked exactly like the real thing. So, "I'm not busy getting into practical work. When I have an idea, I immediately turn it into an image in my imagination, change its structure in my mind, improve the design and operate the equipment. It doesn't matter to me whether I start the turbine in my mind or experiment in the workshop. Even if the turbine is out of balance, I will not let it go. " As long as he slips away with his eyes, he can write down all the contents of a typed manuscript on a page, or all the exact relationships and sizes of countless numbers on a page.

/kloc-after 0/2 years old, he finally tried his best to expel that annoying scene from his mind. It is argued that whenever you face danger or misfortune, or when your mood is high, there will often be inexplicable flashes in front of your eyes, which is beyond your control. Sometimes, he sees flaming flames everywhere in the air around him. The intensity of the flash has not decreased, on the contrary, it has increased year by year. He reached his peak when he was about 25 years old.

At the age of 60, he said: "Every time I think of a promising new idea, this luminous phenomenon still appears, but it is not so disturbing and not so intense. When I close my eyes, as usual, I always see a very dark and uniform blue background first, just like a clear night sky without stars. After a few seconds, the background came alive, flashing countless green lights. The green light was divided into several layers and kept coming at me, and then a beautiful figure appeared on the right, which was some parallel and closely alternating lines. There are two sets of * * *, which are at right angles to each other and have rich colors, mainly yellow and gold. Then, the lines became brighter and brighter, and the whole character was covered with shiny spots. This image slowly passed through my field of vision, disappeared from the left after about 10 seconds, leaving a dull gray background, and then quickly changed into a rolling sea of clouds, as if it were born out of a living body. Strange to say, I couldn't add any shape to this gray background before the latter situation appeared. Every time before going to bed, people, things and scenes pass by. When I saw these sights, I knew I was going to lose consciousness. If the scene doesn't appear, I can't get out, which means staying up all night. "

He has a particularly keen sense. He said that when he was a child, he was awakened by the crackling of flames several times at night, thus saving his neighbors from the houses that suffered from the fire. When he was in his forties, studying lightning in Colorado, he often said that he could hear thunder 550 miles away, while his young assistant could only hear 150 miles at most. He could hear his watch ticking three rooms away; A fly landing on the table in his room will cause a roar in his ears; A carriage passing a few miles away can shake his whole body; The train whizzing 20 miles away can make him feel the chair under his ass shaking violently and the pain is unbearable. The ground under his feet is always shaking. In order to get a rest, he needs to put a rubber pad under the bed.

He wrote: "Roaring from far and near often creates a sound effect that someone is talking. If I can't distinguish the original sound, it will be really creepy. If I block the sunlight intermittently, it will violently impact my mind and make me faint. When passing under a bridge or other buildings, I will try my best. Because at this time, I feel my head is almost crushed. In the dark, I have the bat's perception ability, and I can distinguish things beyond 12 feet with the special feeling of hair on my forehead. "

During this period, his pulse fluctuated greatly, from slow to extremely slow, up to 260 beats per minute. His muscles kept twitching and trembling, which in itself was an almost unbearable burden.

Tesla's selfless work led to instinctive protective sleep. However, when he woke up, he suffered from amnesia again. But after a period of exercise and hard work, she gradually regained her memory and was ready to visit her mother.

It was the early spring of 1892. At that time, he had not received many invitations to give lectures in Britain and France, and his mood was really contradictory. He couldn't make up his mind whether to go to his mother.

According to his memory, hallucinations appeared in the "forgotten fog". He saw himself at the Peace Hotel in Paris, just waking up from a strange sleep disorder. In this "memory", he saw someone hand him an urgent letter with the sad news that his mother was about to die.

Strangely, he was worried about his mother's health for no reason: several letters were sent from Gosbeach's hometown, saying that his mother's health was really failing. He also received invitations, honorary certificates and "other attractive arrangements" from all over the world, inviting him to visit and give a report. Finally, he accepted the invitations from London and Paris and planned to go home directly afterwards.

Once Tesla had just finished his last report, saying that he was exhausted and rushed back to his rented room at the Peace Hotel. Then the messenger sent a telegram telling his mother that she was in critical condition, which was a great disaster from heaven.

He hurried to the railway station and got on a train bound for Croatia. He got off the train and changed cars. When he got home, he just had time to spend the last few hours with his mother. Later, he could hardly stand on his own feet and was sent to a house near his home to rest.

"I lay there helpless," he wrote in his autobiography. "I thought my mother would say hello to me if I wasn't with her when she died ... in London, I was with a late friend William? Sir crookes met and we discussed spiritualism together. At that time, I was completely intoxicated by this idea ... I think it is very beneficial to spy on the conditions of the afterlife, because my mother is a talented woman with outstanding intuition. "

That night, he stayed up all night looking forward to it, and nothing happened until dawn. He said that he saw "a cloud with a group of beautiful angels sitting on it, and one of them looked at me kindly and gradually revealed my mother's appearance." . The scene drifted slowly across the room and gradually disappeared, and then many voices sang beautiful and moving songs, which woke me up from my dream. At this time, an unspeakable positive belief rose in my heart, knowing that my mother had just passed away. It happened ... "

What is the objective reason for this obvious transcendental impression? This is a serious problem for him, because he still insists that human beings are just "machines of flesh and blood". In his autobiography, there are the following "explanations":

"After I recovered, it took me a long time to find the objective reason for this strange phenomenon. I feel very relieved. Because after months of futile efforts, I finally found it. I once saw a painting by a great painter, which depicted a season in a metaphorical way. There is a cloud on the picture, with a group of angels on it, as if floating in the air. This painting touched my heart deeply. The scene I saw in my dream was exactly the same as this painting, only with the appearance of my mother. The music came from the choir of a nearby church, when Easter Mass was being held. The reason is clear and completely in line with scientific facts. "

"That was a long time ago. Since then, I have been reluctant to change my views on those unfounded psychological and spiritual phenomena. I believe that these phenomena are the natural result of intellectual development. People no longer believe in orthodox religious beliefs. But everyone is bound to believe in some kind of superpower. We should all have an ideal to restrain our behavior and get satisfaction from it. But this ideal plays an immaterial role. It doesn't matter It can be doctrine, art, science or something else. If all mankind wants to live in peace, it must have an accepted concept of * * *. "

He said that as long as others hurt their friends or relatives in some way, he would have a feeling, which he called "cosmic pain". The origin of this kind of pain is that the human body structure is similar, the external influence is the same, and the result is the same. He wrote: "A very sensitive and observant person is born with a highly developed and intact body and can adapt to the ever-changing surrounding environment." He has a detached sense of machinery, so he can avoid dangers that are too subtle to be directly perceived. When he came into contact with other people with defective control organs, his detached mechanical feeling was shown, and he felt the pain of the "universe" ...

In Tesla's life, the situation of foresight and non-sensory perception appeared more than once. But he always tries to explain these phenomena by mechanical means every time, looking for the root of intuition from objective events. For example, his sister Angelina was seriously ill. He sent a telegram from new york saying, "I saw Angelina appear and disappear before my eyes. I feel terrible. " According to Stella's nephew Sava? Cozzano recalled later that the inventor had told him about this premonition, but the inventor didn't take it seriously. He said that Tesla is a sensitive receiver and can record any interference. For this recipient, it is not mysterious.

"He declared," Cozzano said, "that everyone is like an automaton that responds to objective impressions." But when it comes to the following, he never talks about what is the objective impression that gives him actual foresight.

He told Cozzano Vicky something happened in Manhattan. It was1in the 1990s, and one day he held a grand banquet. After the banquet, some guests are going to Philadelphia to go home by train. Tesla has a "strong and urgent need" at this time. He insisted on keeping them and not letting them take the train. As a result, the train overturned and many passengers were killed.

Nicholas? Tesla assessment

He is a great man forgotten by the world. He invented the alternator, and Edison loved the DC generator he invented and tried his best to suppress Tesla. Tesla would be the richest man in the world if it hadn't been forced to give up the patent for free use of alternating current ($2.53 per horsepower). His dream is to provide inexhaustible energy for the world. He lives a miserable life and sympathizes with him very much, but he is an unparalleled genius. Unfortunately, not many people remember him.

Although he devoted his life to continuous research and obtained about 1000 patent inventions, his life-long research was not for his own benefit. Unfortunately, his contemporary entrepreneurs took advantage of the genius scientist's love and talent, defrauded his research achievements and honors, and became rich because of his inventions. But Tesla is poor and has been in financial trouble for many years. 194365438+1sometime between the evening of October 5th and the morning of October 8th, Tesla died of heart failure alone in new york Hotel at the age of 86. Tesla was heavily in debt when he died because he refused to sell his patent for alternating current.