Comments on: The Problem With Eureka http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/indexed/2011/12/the-problem-with-eureka/ Famous quotations seen in a new way Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: John Wasik http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/indexed/2011/12/the-problem-with-eureka/#comment-17 John Wasik Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:14:07 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/indexed/?p=72#comment-17 Tesla was more than a failed inventor. Besides creating the system for alternating current, inventing radio, robotics and hundreds of other things, he pioneered the concept of broadcasting electricity. He proved it could be done around 1900, then was cut off from his funding by J.P. Morgan, who backed Marconi in his appropriation of Tesla's concepts for radio transmission. But Tesla has the last laugh as we still use his system globally and his technology offers a means to broadcast clean power from solar panels in earth orbit. Much needs to be done from an engineering standpoint, but Tesla is still very relevant as we try to save our civilization from the scourges of carbon-based perils. Tesla was more than a failed inventor. Besides creating the system for alternating current, inventing radio, robotics and hundreds of other things, he pioneered the concept of broadcasting electricity. He proved it could be done around 1900, then was cut off from his funding by J.P. Morgan, who backed Marconi in his appropriation of Tesla’s concepts for radio transmission.

But Tesla has the last laugh as we still use his system globally and his technology offers a means to broadcast clean power from solar panels in earth orbit. Much needs to be done from an engineering standpoint, but Tesla is still very relevant as we try to save our civilization from the scourges of carbon-based perils.

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