Tesla's idea of moving energy from point A to point B was identical to Marconi's idea of doing the same thing (radio transmitter and receiver), except Marconi won the race and got the prize. Tesla had absolutely no relationship to the magnetron (microwave generation) or the laser. I am missing the occasional cactus for the forest.
Hecker has no information if he himself is either uninformed or misinformed.
Didn't matter. Marconi was first to make a radio communication over long distance. Plaudits galore! That was the race, and Tesla lost. He had squandered his opportunity by developing a very elaborate and impractical technical approach. His backers up to that point lost interest, because the game belonged then to someone else.
Tesla's teleforce was only a rough idea of a weapon that used electrostatic force to accelerate pellets of matter though vacuum and then direct them at targets. How they would cross the boundary between vacuum and air was apparently not described. It was not a railgun, and it was not an atomic particle or ion beam. So, it was, and is still, a non-starter.
I admire Tesla. He made some amazing and important inventions. (I am still intrigued by his viscous turbine as an adjunct to rocket motor turbopumps.) But the mythology surrounding his supposed secret inventions is baseless. I've followed Tesla for a good many decades, and nothing has turned up. When the details of Dr. Trump's review of Tesla's papers finally came out, it was a big nothingburger. Tesla was an old man, belaboring the dreams of an old man. (As I am now getting closer to his age at that time, I am mindful of what that means.)
Tesla's idea of moving energy from point A to point B was identical to Marconi's idea of doing the same thing (radio transmitter and receiver), except Marconi won the race and got the prize. Tesla had absolutely no relationship to the magnetron (microwave generation) or the laser. I am missing the occasional cactus for the forest.
Hecker has no information if he himself is either uninformed or misinformed.
You are correct. Marconi won the race. The race to find funding from J.P. Morgan and Carnegie 😀.
Tesla demonstrated an RC boat in 1898 and was also well aware of Marconi’s work. Whilst Marconi apparently denied knowledge of Tesla’s (hmm, hmmmm).
It is arguable that tesla’s teleforce (1934) is a form of a DEW. However, a different type not laser or microwave, but particle.
Didn't matter. Marconi was first to make a radio communication over long distance. Plaudits galore! That was the race, and Tesla lost. He had squandered his opportunity by developing a very elaborate and impractical technical approach. His backers up to that point lost interest, because the game belonged then to someone else.
Tesla's teleforce was only a rough idea of a weapon that used electrostatic force to accelerate pellets of matter though vacuum and then direct them at targets. How they would cross the boundary between vacuum and air was apparently not described. It was not a railgun, and it was not an atomic particle or ion beam. So, it was, and is still, a non-starter.
I admire Tesla. He made some amazing and important inventions. (I am still intrigued by his viscous turbine as an adjunct to rocket motor turbopumps.) But the mythology surrounding his supposed secret inventions is baseless. I've followed Tesla for a good many decades, and nothing has turned up. When the details of Dr. Trump's review of Tesla's papers finally came out, it was a big nothingburger. Tesla was an old man, belaboring the dreams of an old man. (As I am now getting closer to his age at that time, I am mindful of what that means.)