The Energy Grid - Harmonic 695 - Pulse Universe

1 2> TESLA - THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS 98 Some day I will harness Niagra Falls. — Tesla THIS WAS THE STATEMENT MADE BY THE greatest electrical genius that ever lived, to one of his fellow students, in Budapest, in 1882. Nicola Tesla, born 9 July 1856, was then aged twenty-five and about to commence a lifetime career in the advancement of electrical knowledge which was to transform the world. If it were not for this one man, almost all modern-day electrical devices would not exist. It therefore seems strange that Tesla's name is known to so very few students in our universities. Many times I have mentioned Tesla to groups of students, during discussions, and have been met with a blank stare, and the question — "Who is Tesla?"

His birthplace was a small village called Smiijan in the country now called Yugoslavia. His father was a minister in the local church.

His mother was illiterate, but was known in the village as one who had a clever and inventive mind. It is said that she invented a considerable number of labour saving devices, which could be used in the home. In later years Tesla stated that he inherited his inventive genius from his mother.

In one stupendous lifetime he gave us the whole foundation upon which to build the industrial empires of the world. It was he who invented the alternating-current motors that power every factory and production centre. He that designed the transmission systems that enabled power to be sent out over vast areas of countryside from a central generating source; the mass production systems and robot control that freed man from the slavery of labour; the basis for radio and radar, and remote control by wireless; modern lighting systems by use of high-frequency currents. The list is endless. No limit has been found to the electronic marvels which can be produced from the basic discoveries which issued from this one fertile mind. The whole world owes Tesla its future — and he has been forgotten, because he was a man who lived before his time.

Tesla was one of five children and even at an early age showed signs of a lively mind. He found that in many things he could surpass other boys of his own age, and this tended to isolate him