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UNEXCEEDED AND STOLEN GENIUS

NIKOLA TESLA

SIMO JELAČA, Ph.D.

(He laid the scientific foundations for many, some even stole from him,

Most of them were awarded Nobel prizes, and only he was left out)

Nikola Tesla, an immigrant in America, became known as an inventor, innovator, in 1886, and he soon became famous all over the world. One of the most significant, and among the first inventions, is his polyphase alternating current (AS) system. The very next year, in 1887, Tesla had 43 patents registered. His employer, Edison (Thomas Alva Edison), seeing who Tesla was, offered him 50,000 dollars to solve a task for which he personally had no vision of his own, and when Tesla successfully solved it and showed it, Edison just smiled with satisfaction and said to him: "Don't you know it was just an American joke." Insulted by the American fraud, Tesla left him immediately.

Fortunately, Tesla was approached by George Westinghouse, who bought his patents and started the production of these devices.

Tesla's path, as an immigrant, was thorny like many others. Among prominent scientists, Lord Kelvin (Lord Kelvin), a well-known English scientist at the time, who was nominated to be the head of the international commission for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls, opposed him on his way. And Kelvin favored Edison's direct currents (DC). However, fortunately, George Westinghouse won and Tesla's hydroelectric plant was built. Tesla's childhood dream came true. The time will come when Tesla repays Westinghouse, albeit to his financial detriment. When Westinghouse fell into financial difficulties, Tesla tore up their contract in front of him, which guaranteed him undreamt-of wealth. With that, he showed Westinghouse the value of a Slavic, Orthodox soul, for whom friendship meant more than wealth. Westinghouse was also supported by Columbia University professor Dr. Anthony. he gave advantage to Tesla's rotating magnetic field, compared to the invention of the Italian professor Galileo Ferraris (Galileo Ferraris).

When he invented the vacuum tube, Tesla gave a very successful lecture about it at the American Society of Electrical Engineers. On that occasion, Tesla, in truth, did not emphasize that it was about the Cyclotron, he presented it as an Atom Breaker. He talked about Cosmic Rays and X-rays, and even then he did not point out that it was also about the Electron Microscope. And the present Roentgen (Roentgen) realized what it was all about and hurried to report it as his invention of X-rays, for which he would soon receive the Nobel Prize. Mihajlo Pupin also benefited from X-rays. He registered secondary X-rays for rapid imaging in the field of radiology. One of Tesla's next inventions was the wireless transmission of energy, a wireless lamp, which he carried around the room during which time the lamp glowed. Tesla demonstrated that lamp at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. On that occasion, he told the visitors about the free, boundless energy in space and the possibilities of its application, with wireless transmission over huge distances. And now, we are witnessing that this energy is intensively researched and talked about all over the world. Even then, Tesla claimed that the Sun sends us tiny particles of enormous speed and energy (Cosmic Rays), which should be used. Five years after Tesla's discovery of cosmic rays, the French physicist Henri Bekerel (Henri Becquerel) discovered, for him, the mysterious rays emitted by uranium. (Marie and Pierre Curie) confirmed that it was the discovery of radium. Tesla then claimed that by bombarding with cosmic rays that subatomic particles can make other matter radioactive, which was finally confirmed by Marie Curie's daughter Irene Curie and her husband Frederic Joliot (Irene Curie & Frederic Joliot) in 1934.

Thirty years later, Robert Millikan discovered cosmic rays, as photons, not charged particles. After that, it was confirmed that cosmic rays are fast material particles, as described by Tesla.

Vladimir Zworykin was awarded in 1939 for the development of the electron microscope, and Tesla's description of the effect of his lamp at high vacuum corresponded to the possibility of magnification on a microscopic scale, which was achieved by the electron microscope. The English scientist Fleming (J.A. Fleming) congratulated Tesla, claiming that no one could dispute his enormous achievements. In those years, Tesla worked a lot in the field of electronics, and the electron itself, as a part of the atom, was discovered by the British physicist Joseph Thompson in 1897.

In 1831, Faraday proved the possibility of converting mechanical energy into electrical energy, which inspired Tesla to investigate high-frequency currents that can be produced mechanically. In 1873, James Clerk Maxwell discovered the existence of a wide range of electro-magnetic vibrations in visible light. That theory was tested by German physicist Professor Heinrich Hertz in 1888. Hertz's instrument was not functional, so Tesla proposed a very superior solution with a frequency of 33,000 cycles per second. This device is still in use today.

You see, Tesla laid the correct scientific foundations in several scientific fields of research, which others also researched, some stole, and some modified, and all of them won Nobel prizes, while their true inventor remained "Short-sleeved". That world, to which Tesla gave many of his inventions and himself in many respects, ignored him. And the most important among the teams are Röntgen and Marconi (Guglielmo Marconi). Both attended Tesla's lectures at the American Society of Electrical Engineers, where Tesla presented his inventions. Roentgen soon claimed X-rays as his invention and received the Nobel Prize for the same. And only Marconi, he formally stole Tesla's inventions for Radio, registered them with a delay of over four years, after Tesla's patent had already been recognized, and received the Nobel Prize for the same. On what basis, only the Americans know. Tesla registered his invention under patent numbers 645,576 and 649,621 on September 2, 1897, and received recognition for the invention on March 20, 1900. Marconi applied for his patent in 1904, which was rejected in favor of Tesla. The Supreme Court of the United States of America issued decision no. 6,369 on June 21, 1943, which confirmed Tesla's primacy in the invention of the radio, but, unfortunately, Tesla had already passed away before that. After Marconi sent the message across the Atlantic, Tesla claimed that Marconi was using his 17 patents. He added; "I'm not sorry they use mine, I'm sorry they don't have theirs."

How much Tesla challenged his work is evidenced by the fact that they burned his laboratories twice, and twice nominated him for the Nobel Prize, but both times awarded it to others. Written documents show that Tesla was awarded about 800 patents, and Edison about 900, making Edison the winner. But these same documents, hardly any, claim that Edison, as a manufacturer, employer, predominantly employed innovative engineers, stipulated that every patent applied for from his factory must bear Edison's name in addition to the author. Thus, Edison became the owner not only of his patents, but also of all the patents of his collaborators

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In the last years of his life, when Tesla's health deteriorated, he neither publicly published many of his inventions, nor did he properly write them down. Therefore, they remain incompletely defined. And just what is the number of documents that were mysteriously seized immediately after his death and are still being secretly studied in hidden laboratories to this day.

And, finally, we can add to all the facts that in recent years numerous new devices have been created, all of which are based on Tesla's foundations, and that numerous Nobel Prizes have been awarded to many new researchers around the world. And Tesla's saying will come true, after he was denied the Nobel Prize for which he was nominated, that his inventions will bring more benefits to the world than thousands of Nobel Prizes.

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