Tesla after working for many years in Budapest & France for the Continental Edison Company; moved to the United States in 1884 with little besides a letter of recommendation to hopefully continue his career under the close watch of Thomas Edison (proper knobcheese).
This letter written by Charles Batchelor, a former employer of Edison simply stated, quote:
"I know two great men and you are one of them(Edison). The other is this young man(Tesla)."
With just that in mind, Edison hired Tesla to work for his company Edison Machine Works.
Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering but quickly progressed to solving some of the company's most difficult problems. He was even offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison company's Direct Current (DC) Generators.
(Which we all know in exception of musical equipment, DC is pretty bogus)
This however is sadly when the sweet & juicy bone marrow entails of this story starts to go a bit sour.
Tesla was offered by Scumbag Jones (Edison) US:$50,000 (1.4 Million today) to redesign Edison's retarded & inefficient generators that plagued society with relentless noise & pointless existence.
He accepted & immediately started night and day work on the project and throughout the process gave the Edison Company several profitable new patents!
Happy days yeah?
WRONG...
In the good spirit only typical American Republicans can bring.
When Tesla asked about payment for his work, Voldemort replied with:
(Proof of Voldemort like appearance)
"Oh Tesla. You just don't understand our American humor..."
If Tesla were a true Wizard and not just an amazing brain;
Expelliarmus would have fired out his mouth worthy to that of Professor Snape in 'The Chamber of Secrets'.
(Laters Edison!)Instead of the promised $50G's, Tesla was paid a measly $18 per week, & immediately resigned after being refused a raise to $25 per week. However continued to work for his now rival digging ditches and secretly work on improving Edisons DC power grids which subsequently led to his creation of the AC we use today...
Skipping ahead to later life. After inventing the Radio, harnessing the use of X-Rays & creating the savior for every Australian males fear of watching 10 seconds of Days of our Lives or Hueys Cooking Adventures (the Remote Control). Tesla decided it was time to up the ante with something unheard of and not mastered by even todays scientists. This was of course Wireless Power Transmission.
(Excerpt from "The Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy by Gary L. Peterson")
At his Colorado "Experimental Station" Tesla had some early success in wireless power transmission. One photograph shows a small incandescent lamp lighted by means of a resonant circuit grounded on one end, the energy then being drawn through the earth from a nearby transmitter.
In 1907 he even went as far as to make this statement:
"To make the little filament glow, the entire surface of the planet, two hundred million square miles, must be strongly electrified. This calls for peculiar electrical activities, hundreds of times greater than those involved in the lighting of an arc lamp through the human body. What impresses him most, however, is the knowledge that the little lamp will spring into the same brilliancy anywhere on the globe, there being no appreciable diminution of the effect with the increase of distance from the transmitter."
In 1900, with US$150,000 (51 % from J. Pierpont Morgan), Tesla began planning the WardenClyffe Tower facility stating:
"As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. More important than this, however, will be the transmission of power, without wires, which will be shown on a scale large enough to carry conviction. These few indications will be sufficient to show that the wireless art offers greater possibilities than any invention or discovery heretofore made, and if the conditions are favorable, we can expect with certitude that in the next few years wonders will be wrought by its application."
(End Excerpt)
Sadly however, this tower was never completed due to what was reported as "Financial" difficulties. A more believable tail in my personal belief is that Tesla was onto something that could have changed the world. Creating something that could provide free wireless energy to anyone, in any part of the globe, restricting companies like 'Edison Machine Works' over taking control and profiting off this now Multi Billion dollar industry.
Now thats a man who had some GIANT Balls!
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