20 March 2010, mkrause
The Tesla film project got a lot of understanding, interest and support during the “dragonforum” workshop in Warszaw. We will see whether this topic will be picked up by commissioning editors. The following Tesla symposium in Vienna was well attended, and the Tesla presentation “On the Road to Tesla” was really well received. The following interview for the yugoslavian newspaper VESTI was a surprise: the VESTI journalist mistook WWI with WWII, and so - within VESTI - Tesla became collaborator with the Nazis. NONSENSE! But an uproar within the Serbian community was the result: OUR Tesla never worked for the Nazis! And this is true; because Tesla worked for Telefunken in WWI. Tesla never worked for the Nazis. He was good friends with George Sylvester Viereck, who promoted Hitler in the US - and was sentenced because of this engagement to 4 years imprisoment in the U.S., though.
9 March 2010, mkrause
Whereever you look, it is JJ Thomson who is considered the discoverer of the electron as a fundamental sub-atomic particle in 1897. But, if you look further, there had been a long discussion about the nature of cathode rays; in short, British physicists assigned a particle character to those rays (Sir William Crookes, a friend of Tesla’s), whereas German physicists in this controversy opted for a wave character. Tesla, in a newspaper article (”On Roentgen rays”, Electrical Review, March 18, 1896), wrote: “I see in these shocks a further evidence of larger particles thrown off from the bulb“. In his discussion about the topic with Thomson, Tesla grounded his conclusion on the personal experience of a “sometimes even painful, shock in the eye“. This characterizes Tesla’s method: it wasn’t scientific in a lot of senses, but he discovered scientific phenomena earlier than his contemporaries. As Boris Tadic, president of Serbia, puts it: “There are not many from this region who grew to realize their visions. Those who did are our common heritage.”
