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Ahead of his time: The Wadenclyffe Project

                   The article, Nikola Tesla Biography, by A+E Networks, describes Tesla from beginning to end, I am focusing on the paragraph “Wardenclyffe Project”. In the paragraph it describes how several non-profit groups are trying to preserve Wardenclyffe, which is an abandoned laboratory in New York used by Tesla, and turn it into a museum of the famous inventor’s work. Wardenclyffe is better known has the Tesla Tower that you see in many of his images. Over the past decade they have been working furiously to get the funding needed to preserve and show off the lab to the public. It has been steadily growing with great results! However, in February of 2009 the property value rose to $1.6 million. Tesla Science Institute has raised $850,000 from the state of New York through a grant and has to match the grants funding to be able to purchase the property. In less than 6 days they  had reached the goal of $850,000. They used a lot of high profile individuals and companies to help them, and have achieved their goal. By the time it was over they had raised $2.2 million. On May 2^nd 2013 the group announced that they had successfully acquired the site, the surplus funds will be used to clean up and restore the site to its former glory. Tesla said this about his site “It is not a dream it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive to the blind, faint-hearted, doubting world!”

http://www.biography.com/people/nikola-tesla-9504443?page=2

Fish Cheeks Summary

After reading “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, I have a better understanding of Chinese culture. Tan describes how she had a crush on a boy named Robert, and how her parents had invited his family for Christmas Eve dinner. The reading then describes how it was a traditional Chinese Meal, and it had all sorts of things Americans would not enjoy for a Christmas meal. It then goes on to tell how her dad belched out loud and had “Chinese” table manners instead of a American version, even poking food and trying to feed it to Tan. By the end of the paragraph Tans mother knew that Tan was embarrassed, but told her that after she was done with this boy, she would understand what had happened that night. Tan learned that night, that no matter what she had suffered, her family made her, her favorite meal and that she was truly a Chinese girl with Chinese heritage.

The Real Definition of an Electrical Genius

The Real Definition of an Electrical Genius

 

         He was a man bent on figuring out electricity, how it worked, how it could improve life, and how it could elevate mankind to a new level. Nikola Tesla was a born in Croatia with a Serbian descent that discovered the principles of Alternating Current and developed the first alternating electrical motor. At the age of 19 he was studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria, he was quickly branded a star student. He debated and argued with his professors about the flaws in Direct Current. He spent the next six years of his life pondering about electromagnetic fields and hypothetical motors powered by Alternating Current. In 1884 he moved to New York to work for Thomas Edison to improve his motors. Upon improving the motors, Edison joked about how he was not a true American and Tesla quit. Tesla would soon patent the AC motor and power systems, which were more valuable that then telephone. He would go on to invent the X-ray machine and his Tesla Coils that helped send and receive radio waves. His true obsession with electricity soon overwhelmed him and he became withdrawn from the world; however, he still would continue with his ideas and studies. Near the end of his life, being broke and living in a hotel in 1931, he became fixated on pigeons, especially a white female, which he claimed to love almost has much as one would love a human. He later focused on his last invention, the Death Beam, which could shoot 10,000 enemy planes out of the sky, but could not receive funding and the project languished. He died in 1943 in debt and forgotten. Was he though?His legacy lives on to this day, with a company being founded after him. His inventions are still being used in all hospitals around the world, the radio still being the primary communication for people. We still have people trying to recreate his Tesla Towers and find out how to unlock true free energy. His study was electricity; he pondered it, focused on it and achieved his dreams.

Can you compare Nikola Tesla to Thomas Edison?

Nikola Tesla was hired by Thomas Edison to help improve the Electric Motor, they worked with each other for many years improving inventions and coming up with new ones, but how did they compare? Thomas Edison was a very smart businessman, he knew how to come up with ideas and inventions, but he focused on the business aspect more so. Nikola Tesla on the other hand was just the opposite, focusing on his inventions and running out of money all the time. You can imagine the fire that was beginning to burn between the two, eventually resulting in Tesla forming his own company backed by investors seeing his potential. An electric rival, a magnetic polarity will soon ensue. The War of Currents began! Edison had the patent and direct current was the prominent use of transmitting electricity over large distances. Direct Current; however, is not has controllable as Alternating current, which Tesla invented, and thus it made it a far superior technology for electrical transmission. Tesla’s Alternating Current soon overtook Edison’s Direct Current, and it became the primary provider for all electricity for all of the United States. In the end Tesla won the battle, and to this day we all use Alternating Current to power most devices.

My Writing Process

How do I write? I usually start very archaic, and then go from there. I think about what I want to write about, how I want to say it then start with the rough draft. I try to do has much research as I can before I start, I don’t plagiarize but I do use people’s ideas or thoughts in my sentences. Grabbing their main point, and seeing if its what I agree with. With my last assignment I looked up quite a few pictures of Tesla, I read some biographies, some blogs, pretty much anything I could find on how he looked and presented himself, then I started off with a rough draft, then before I posted it, I read it at loud to myself. Do I understand what I am trying to say? Did I make my point? Is the grammar correct? All of those are very important before I post. I really try to make sure my spelling is correct, and I was embarrassed with my first paragraph. I really want to learn how to write better paragraphs, how to translate my thoughts into sentences, and to become a better writer period. I have always felt that if you can write and make sentences then you are way ahead of most people in life.

The Greatest Looking Geek of the Early 1900’s.

            Nikola Tesla was considered one of the most handsome genius’s of the early 1900’s. If you compare him to the likes of Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and George Westinghouse he looks like a Greek God. Molded and poised in all of his photos, you will not see one picture of him not posing. His hair, always parted down the centered and slicked to the sides, his mustache neatly trimmed and well groomed. His bone structure on his chin was narrow but not pointy. You would never see it in his photo’s but his height was 6′ 2″ and he was a very skinny man, about 140 pounds. People joked about his height when it came to his giant Tesla Towers saying he was as tall as his towers! He truly was a tall genius with giant ideas that dwarfed the 20th century.

 

Researching Nikola Tesla

I have been using Wikipedia, the LCC Library and a few autobiographies to find all my research on the man. It has been an easy process. Since the 1990’s he has risen in popularity so there are very many resourceful books and writings about it.

Nikola Tesla, the forgotten genius.

Nikola Tesla legacy lives on to this day. We use it in our houses everyday. We use it to communicate amongst each other, and we use it in our hospitals to help cure or heal the sick. Three major inventions by him; AC current, the Telephone, and the X-Ray machine are some of the greatest inventions and technological advancements in the late 1800’s through the 20th Century. He even devised a way to make power free and easily accessible for all by using his Tesla Towers on opposite ends of the earth. He was later credited has a mad man because he thought he had intercepted radio signals from Mars, and because of his free power idea. He died alone in a hotel in New York, broke and forgotten on January 7 1943.

Nikola Tesla or General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

I love the history and the mystery behind Nikola Tesla. He is best known for his design on AC power. He has also had many mystery’s around him. The biggest one would be creating two towers and being able to plug anything into the ground to get the power. He has worked for Thomas Edison, and he also created the X-Ray Machine.

Then there is General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. He was better known has Stormin Norman. He had one of the most famous careers has a U.S. Army General than any other since WWII. He commissioned in 1956/1957 and fought from Vietnam all the way through Desert Storm. His explosive personality and temper is where they got the nickname Stormin Norman.