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<h1 id="title-index">tesla</h1>
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<p> Short History of Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>
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<p>
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This is a file to straighten out misconception and
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disinformation that has occurred over the years, about how
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supposedly "great" Edison was, and how Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was
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brushed under the capitalist power rug.
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Edison was a thief, employing all kinds of people for
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their brains, he stole their inventions, their ideas, so
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much so, that it is unclear today what Edison actually
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invented, and what was stolen from others.
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The Edison Electric Institute was formed to perpetuate
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the notion that Edison was the inventor of record, and to
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make sure that school textbooks, etc., only mentioned HIM
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in connection with these many inventions. Much like Bell
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Labs does today.
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Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was pretty much always a genius, after
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having made many improvements in the electric trolleys, and
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trains in his country, he came to America, sought
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employment, and eventually ended up working for Edison.
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Edison had contracted with <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York City</span> to build
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Direct Current (D.C.) power plants every square mile or so,
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so as to power the lights that he supposedly invented.
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Street lights, hotel lighting etc. Having trenches dug
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throughout the city to lay the cables, copper, and as big
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around as a man's bicep, he told <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> that if <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> could
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save him money by redesigning certain aspects of the
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installation, that he would give <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> a percentage of the
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savings. A verbal agreement. After approximately a year,
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> went to Edison's office and showed him the savings
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that had occurred ($100000 or so, which in those days was
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quite a piece of change) as a direct result of his
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(<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s) engineering, and Edison pretended ignorance of
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any agreement. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> quit. From that point on, the two men
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were enemies.
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> invented useable Alternating Current (A.C.) that
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we all use today, in a world where Edison and others
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already had a huge investment in D.C. power.
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> proselytized A.C. power and had some success
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building A.C. power plants, and providing A.C. power to
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various entities. One of these was Sing Sing prison, in
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upstate <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> provided A.C. power for the
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"electric chair" there. Edison had big articles printed in
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the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> newspapers, saying that A.C. power was
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dangerous "killing" power, and in general, gave a bad name
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to <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>.
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To contradict this jab, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> set out on his own
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positive marketing campaign, appearing at the 1880? World
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Exposition in Chicago passing high frequency "dangerous"
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A.C. power over his body to power light bulbs in front of
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the public. Shooting huge, long sparks from his "<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>
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coil", and touching them, etc. "Proving" that A.C. power
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was safe for public consumption.
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The advantage of A.C. power was that you could send it a
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long distance through reasonably sized wires with little
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loss, and if you touched the wires together, "shorted
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them", you got a lot of sparks, and only the place where
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they were touching melted until the two wires weren't
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touching anymore.
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D.C. power, on the other hand, needed huge cables to go
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any distance at all, while using power, the cables heated
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up. When shorted, the cables melted all the way back to the
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power house, streets had to be dug up again and new cables
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laid. If a short occurred in a single light, it usually
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started a fire, and burned down the hotel or destroyed
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whatever it was in contact with! This was quite profitable
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for those in the D.C. power business, and quite good for
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those into ditch digging, construction, etc.
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> invented 2-phase, and 3-phase Alternating Current.
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He figured motors turned in a circle, so alternately driving
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separate, 180 degree, sections of the surrounding armature
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would build up less heat, and use less electricity. He was
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right.
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1929 came, the stock market crashed, bankers, lawyers,
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everyone who had lost their wealth and hadn't jumped out a
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window, sought work, many as common laborers if lucky, for
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a dollar a day. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> found himself digging ditches in the
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company of broke but influential ex-Wall-streeters.
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During the short lunch period, he would tell his buddies
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about phased A.C. electricity, and how it was efficient,
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etc. Along about 1932, he was working at a small generator
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rebuilding shop in <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>, and one of the bankers that he
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used to dig ditches with, found him, and took him to Mr.
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Westinghouse, to whom he told his stories. Westinghouse
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bought 19 patents outright, and gave <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> a dollar per
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horsepower for any electric motor produced by Westinghouse
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using the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> 3-phase system.
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> finally had the money with which to start building
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his laboratories, and conducting the experiments with free
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earth energy. The idea that really made him unpopular.
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Something free, that the masters of war and business
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couldn't control? They couldn't have that! So, the day
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after <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> died in 1943, his huge laboratory on Long
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Island mysteriously burned down, no records saved, and the
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remnants were bulldozed the day after that to further
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eradicate any equipment still left. So much for "free energy".</p>
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