One Man Ushered In the 20th Century Holding Over 700 Patents, His Greatest Invention Never Realized

One Man Ushered In the 20th Century Holding Over 700 Patents

, His Greatest Invention Never Realized

Who was the greatest inventor of the 19th Century? Many historians of science and technology would say, without a doubt, it would be the Serbian/American scientist Nikola Tesla, although conventional history books tell us a different story entirely.

In 1884, Tesla arrived in New York with a working knowledge of a dozen languages, a book of poetry, four cents, and an introduction to Thomas Edison. The Edison introduction provided Tesla with a job, but he left to set up his own business after only a year with Edison.

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When he arrived in New York City, there was already public electricity in some of the major cities in the United States. It was with his patented invention of the AC Generator, manufactured by Westinghouse, that allowed electricity to flow to every town and village; every home, office and factory.

Along with his major contribution to the design of AC motors, generators and transformers, Tesla also worked in many branches of science and technology, from electric lighting to X-rays, robotics and radio. Throughout his life, Tesla maintained that it was he, not Marconi, who was the true inventor of wireless transmission. He even took it to the court system. At first, the U.S. Courts rejected his claim to priority. It was not until five months after his death, on June 21, 1943, that the Supreme Court ruled that Tesla had anticipated all other contenders with his fundamental radio patents.

Those and other of his inventions, including fluorescent lighting, are used in the everyday lives of billions of homes and businesses. These are some of the more mundane creations. Others remain highly controversial, such as his creation of universal energy, and more recently dubbed the Tesla generator by DIY enthusiasts... "We are on the threshold of a gigantic revolution, based on the wireless transmission of power", Tesla wrote in the 1930s. "We will be enabled to illuminate the whole sky at night... eventually we will flash power in virtually unlimited amounts to (other) planets."

The trick, he thought, was to use the air of the upper atmosphere to transmit energy. Power would be beamed to a terminal in the upper atmosphere, and then transmitted to receivers on the ground or in the air. The risks, however, could potentially be high. As he wrote in 1899, "So strangely do such powerful discharges behave that I have often experienced a fear that the atmosphere might be ignited."

Tesla wanted to build a tower on the East Coast to transmit radio messages, then, ultimately, power across the Atlantic. Initial work at Wardenclyffe provided a terrific light show seen from miles around, but Tesla's financial situation was such that the tower was never completed.

Despite his reputation as a visionary genius, Tesla's refusal to compromise his ideas resulted in a steady decline of his money. His future-thinking ideas commanded front-page headlines, but with successive wars and the Great Depression, his dreams were never seen to fruition.

Tesla died alone in 1943, with many of his secretive papers though lost, until recently when a group of scientist and researchers filed a request through the Freedom of Information Act. Not only did the scientists rediscover a technology Nikola Tesla had pioneered, but they revived it with an infusion of today's technology that will allow anyone to learn how to build a Tesla generator, regardless of their technical skills. And because of today's technology, anyone with the interest in becoming totally green and energy independent can do so, with nothing more than parts they can buy at their local electronics store.

One thing we know for sure. Nikola Tesla was truly a man with dreams far beyond those of his time.

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