He invented no such thing. There was no demonstration. There was no patent. If it was so well stated in his patents, now public information, why hasn't anyone taken advantage of them? Why was he so insistent on completing his experiments at Wardenclyffe if it was already in the bag? At the time of Wardenclyffe, he was neck and neck with Marconi in the race for intercontinental transmission. Marconi won the race in 1902 with the first trans-Atlantic communication, and that's the point at which Morgan declined further funding, because all the investment money was headed toward Marconi.
You are evidently unaware of this history...yet you declare me to be a "stupid fuck."
Here's something Tesla said, but I'm sure he was just confused, and was actually just talking about AM radio waves. He just didn't know the difference between cosmic rays, and radio waves. Oh well.
“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. … I have advanced a theory of the cosmic rays and at every step of my investigations I have found it completely justified. The attractive features of the cosmic rays is their constancy. They shower down on us throughout the whole 24 hours, and if a [power] plant is developed to use their power it will not require devices for storing energy as would be necessary with devices using wind, tide or sunlight. All of my investigations seem to point to the conclusion that they are small particles, each carrying so small a charge that we are justified in calling them neutrons. They move with great velocity, exceeding that of light. "
This must have been later in his life, since cosmic rays were mainly being discovered (as such) from 1912 onward. Robert Millikan coined the term "cosmic rays" in the 1920s. Units of the power from cosmic rays are not terribly informative (electron volts per cubic centimeter?), but the general result is that the incoming power from cosmic rays is about equal to the light power coming from the distant stars. Not Very Much. Tesla was wrong to suppose they moved faster than light. He was on the right track in referring to them as particles, not waves.
He invented no such thing. There was no demonstration. There was no patent. If it was so well stated in his patents, now public information, why hasn't anyone taken advantage of them? Why was he so insistent on completing his experiments at Wardenclyffe if it was already in the bag? At the time of Wardenclyffe, he was neck and neck with Marconi in the race for intercontinental transmission. Marconi won the race in 1902 with the first trans-Atlantic communication, and that's the point at which Morgan declined further funding, because all the investment money was headed toward Marconi.
You are evidently unaware of this history...yet you declare me to be a "stupid fuck."
Here's something Tesla said, but I'm sure he was just confused, and was actually just talking about AM radio waves. He just didn't know the difference between cosmic rays, and radio waves. Oh well.
“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. … I have advanced a theory of the cosmic rays and at every step of my investigations I have found it completely justified. The attractive features of the cosmic rays is their constancy. They shower down on us throughout the whole 24 hours, and if a [power] plant is developed to use their power it will not require devices for storing energy as would be necessary with devices using wind, tide or sunlight. All of my investigations seem to point to the conclusion that they are small particles, each carrying so small a charge that we are justified in calling them neutrons. They move with great velocity, exceeding that of light. "
This must have been later in his life, since cosmic rays were mainly being discovered (as such) from 1912 onward. Robert Millikan coined the term "cosmic rays" in the 1920s. Units of the power from cosmic rays are not terribly informative (electron volts per cubic centimeter?), but the general result is that the incoming power from cosmic rays is about equal to the light power coming from the distant stars. Not Very Much. Tesla was wrong to suppose they moved faster than light. He was on the right track in referring to them as particles, not waves.