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The history of the future: Nikola Tesla


Does the name Nikola Tesla sound familiar? His inventions affected the development of modern technology, yet few know much about his incredible life and achievements.


by Anya Petrovic


“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of its existence.” [Nikola Tesla]


ERASED FROM HISTORY The name Nikola Tesla – one of the greatest scientists of all time – you will neither find in textbooks in the United States, where he spent most of his creative life, nor in the syllabus at universities in the Western world. Why? We have the Tesla electric car, but almost nobody I’ve spoken with in Australia, America, or Western Europe, knows where that ‘strange name’ for this new car came from. How can this be? Arguably Tesla’s inventions have


affected the development of modern technology and improved human life more than those of any other scientist in history. It is thanks to his work that we now have radio, remote control, AC induction motors, robotics, lasers, X-rays, radar, the Tesla coil, the disk- turbine rotary engine, magnifying transmitters, and many other inventions now commonplace in our modern world. So why is such an important figure in history not publicly heralded as such?


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LIMITLESS FREE ENERGY The reason is that Tesla invented wireless communications and limitless free energy. These two inventions are inextricably linked, as they prompted the power elite to do everything possible to discredit Tesla and remove his name from history. In 1900 banker J.P. Morgan


financed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit wireless power and a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text. This represented the world’s first wireless communication, or internet. However, when Morgan realised that Tesla was dedicated to empowering people to have electric power virtually free of charge everywhere around the globe and to receive and transmit data through a world wide web, he immediately stopped backing this project. Free energy? No way! Where was the financial benefit if energy could not be metered and charged for? That would effectively remove the power from Morgan and the others who were in control. Tesla’s laboratory was burned to the ground. During his life, Tesla worked with terrestrial stationary waves, non-


Hertzian waves (which we now call Tesla waves), and radiant energy. At that time all these waves were unknown in physics. These energies, and how they could be used, are still an enigma for contemporary science. There are many of Tesla’s inventions that have not been realised up to the present day, at least not in the way he intended for them to be used. In 1920 Tesla announced in the


Syracuse Herald (California) that he had found how to “make fertile land out of deserts, and create lakes and rivers” almost without any effort. In December, 1892, Tesla published a paper entitled, ‘On The Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator’, where he wrote that his new transformer did not operate on magnetic/electric field induction, but in an entirely new domain of physics, under entirely new rules, which he referred to as “dynamic electro-static forces”. In this article he describes a self-activating machine that would draw power from the ambient medium (the air surrounding it); a fuel- less generator. In the Dallas Morning News it was


announced in 1931 that Tesla had modified a Pierce-Arrow automobile. He exchanged the petrol engine with


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