The inventor, physicist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla from Smiljan is considered one of the greatest inventors of mankind.Born in 1856, he devoted himself primarily to electrical engineering and electrical power engineering.One of his most famous inventions is the three-phase alternating current with which the power generation could be revolutionised and from which the US entrepreneur George Westinghouse benefited.The use of alternating current triggered the so-called first “Electricity war“Between Westinghouse and his arch-rival Thomas Alva Edison, who could only be settled in court after four years in 1892. Nikola Tesla used his genius in particular to develop wireless energy transmission, which is known today as “free energy”, and is considered a controversial field of research in classical science.After the death of the inventor on January 7, 1943, some of his 700 patents, especially those dealing with “free energy”, are said to have disappeared and remain confidential until today.
Nikola Tesla invented some remarkable things in his life that are part of our everyday life and are partly attributed to other inventors. The neon light illuminated his laboratory forty years before this technology was even invented. He discovered how it works behind today’s microwave ovens and radar. The inventor of the microwave oven is the US engineer Percy Spencer and not Nikola Tesla. Tesla became particularly famous for the presentation of its technology for wireless energy transmission. On May 21, 1891, he gave his famous lecture at Columbia College in New York, which went down in history as the Columbia Lecture, and in which he lit scouring tubes (gas discharge tubes) without a cable connection by carrying them between electrodes that were in the room found.
In 1893, he set up wireless lighting in his large laboratory on West Broadway, which consisted of circulating cables in the ceiling and a Tesla oscillator. He could walk through the room with his flagella tubes, which drew their energy wireless from the ceiling and glowed. His laboratory burned down in March 1895, caused by a heating company and destroyed not only all documents, but also equipment. Nikola Tesla got depressed, but recovered and was able to set up a new laboratory despite financial problems. Over time, his New York laboratory became too small and he increasingly devoted himself to wireless energy transmission.
Free energy and rays of death
Free energy was the focus of Nikola Tesla’s scientific work and in this context was his laboratory in Colorado Springs, built in May 1899. Access was strictly prohibited to strangers. There were coils and assemblies in this laboratory. The middle between the mentioned equipment was occupied by a 50 meter high extendable iron mast, which was used to catch lightning discharges. He described his invention as a magnifying transmitter in his diary. At the Paris World’s Fair in 1900, he planned to wireless transmit energy and news from the US east coast to France, for which purpose a reception system was to be built on the French coast. His experiments led to a day-long blackout in the city of Colorado Springs in October 1899, and in January 1900 Nikola Tesla moved back to New York. In 1905 the laboratory was dismantled due to electricity and wage debts and sold in individual parts. Nikola Tesla was convinced in December 1899 to have discovered a “world energy system” and received a patent on it.
At the beginning of the 20th century, he dealt with metaphysics and transcendentalism. In the January 1901 issue of the US magazine “Collier’s Weekly”, Nikola Tesla reported in an article in 1899 that he had made initial contact with extraterrestrials. According to current speculations, in 1899 he received the signals from the mysterious Black Knight satellite. His patent with U.S. Patent No. 685,957 from March 1901 describes a device for using radiation energy. The device is said to capture space energy and convert it into electrical energy. The patent describes the free energy that para-scientists say everyone can get for free, but according to conspiracy theories, the technical principle is kept secret by energy companies and governments.
In August 1917 his article in the magazine “Electrical Experimenter” appeared about the famous death rays with which he wanted to destroy submarines using high-frequency rays.
After his death on January 7, 1943, all of his documents and property were confiscated by the United States government for national security reasons. Before his death, he is said to have given management of the New York hotel in which he lived a device for generating death rays instead of rent in arrears. This beam weapon was rumoured to be part of his property, which US officials had confiscated after his death.