June 10, 2009
The Media (Paramount) knew what they had in Tesla: the perfect gentleman scientist, who in his lab conceived weapons of mass destruction. Tesla’s death-ray was a complete hoax, with Titus de Bobula as architect and Tesla as the visionary scientist writing to Her Majesty (among others) to become multi-millionaires. A perfect Hollywood haven, something to make real stories out of: so Tesla became the perfect villain, and Clark Kent the perfect man, pardon: Superman - to save his girl Lane out of the crazed gentleman scientist’s lab of Tesla’s.
May 25, 2009
It has been a question for a long time: why was Nikola Tesla so heavily ridiculed even during his lifetime? Why wasn’t he the glorious hero he always longed to be? Why “Tesla’s million dollar folly”, why did not only the huge structure on Long Island, called the “Magnifying Transmitter”, did tumble and fall - but also Tesla’s reputation? I was wondering for years, without finding a clue. Now, while writing the book “Tesla-visionary of the 21st century”, there is evidence, how, when and why all what was mentioned happened. So much has been written about Tesla’s idiosyncrasies and the bad, bad world. Turns out, all this is part of the picture - you just have to know where to put the colours.
May 12, 2009
Tesla was damn sure he was right and most of the time he was. But Wardenclyffe never worked, it became more like an artist’s conception - Tesla saw himself as an artist. Failure is human and there is nothing bad about it. If you know you’ve done a mistake, look into the eye of it. But never put your own mind above everything, this will not work out in the end. If there is the spark of genius, OK. To think one can rule the world, provide a new cosmic world order … that`s called Hybris, I think.
May 6, 2009
Whenever I read something that was written by Tesla I get the feeling that this was written by a great character. Someone who knew about things, and someone who could image the crop from seeing the root. Says Professor Michio Kaku: “If I were to fault Tesla, I would say that he needed an army of lawyers.” So, whatever will be done today in the name of critical thinking ahead, have your army of lawyers standing behind you. And be sure they all have a big stick in their hands. A stick of loyalty, wisdom and inspiration. Not the lawyers that we know of, nor the other Geckos ruining the world with greed. Tesla could be a good frontman for the future, like: Tesla World Inc. Let’s go ahead, time’s running.
April 22, 2009
What are the most fascinating things about Tesla? His inventiveness, or his visions, ideas, his character, his straight boldness, his humor? How many facets has his character? Why so many put him into the same category as Einstein, Goethe, Edison? Or: even into god (from Mars)-type realms, even thinking he (Tesla) could think like a reptile (like a crocodile?) What? Tesla makes you wonder. About invention, character and life. “A role model for all of us”, that’s how David Goodstein did put it, quite correctly.
April 6, 2009
Countess Parlaghy knew who she was portraying, they had met some 10 years ago. The two persons in the room spoke German, they had learnt the harsh language in school, over there, in Europe. Also known as the language of poets, it was this language that the two best-agers had some story to tell in. For example, tt was the same chair that Wilhelm II, the German emperor, once sat in; and now, the countess had another emperor in front of her, an emperor of the technological age. Nikola Tesla had ordered that the room should only be lighted by his oscillators, producing a somewhat bluish glare. It was this color he liked most, the color of dreams. Not long ago, he had been the most respected electrician of his age, maybe besides Thomas Alva Edison. Now, Tesla was mainly living on credit. His worldwidewireless system didn’t succeed, the turbine didn’t, and the cars his Waltham speedometer was buit in were rare high-class product. If you look at the painting, Tesla is fixing something very distant, to your left. The painting can be seen in Northern Germany, where the sea has washed ashore the so-called Blue Portrait of Nikola Tesla. Go there, it’s worth it.
March 27, 2009
When facing the retreat of his sole financial backer, Morgan (the Pierpoint), Tesla went into other worlds. He saw himself having a silent agreement with Saint Sava, his patron saint. They would always stick together, Tesla thought. And now, with Morgan the gorgon denying any further funding, Tesla felt that the saint has forgotten him. But Tesla also had to keep his self-esteem, on a level quite high: Tesla saw his work was immortal, that he had brought in the greatest invention of all times, and that his name was linked to more inventions than Archimedes and even Galileo. It’s not only a edifice shattered, or a dream. The failure of Wardenclyffe shattered Tesla’s mind, ad it took a long way to recover.
March 13, 2009
The House of Morgan: the mighty gorgon John Pierpoint and his commanding daughter Anne was Tesla’s new aim at the end of the first year of the new century. Could have been a match made in heaven, a marriage of the ‘wizard of electricity’ and the foundress of suffragette city. However, Tesla always went for the work, not for love or personal relationship. And it worked, Pierpoint gave a lot of money, but for a price: 51% of all of Tesla’s work was now in the hands of the Wall Street Mogul. And then Marconi sent three dots across the Atlantic, making Tesla’s most ambitious project obsolete. No “world system” was needed, expensive and unfinished as it was Wardenclyffe had to be abandoned.
March 8, 2009
Sailing under the warm vent of financier John Jacob Astor’s investment Tesla started his Colorado Springs experiments. Knob Hill, the location of his experimental barn, is a nice neighbourhood today, the view up to Pike’s Peak enormous; and one can imagine the time then, when heavy weatherfronts went about the plateau, Tesla and his colleagues Czito and Lowenstein watching the lightning storms ….
