Is it true that Nikola Tesla invented machines that set man free from labour about 100 years ago?
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..He was a brilliant scientist. He had a photographic memory and he won a court battle for the credit of the patent for the radio. Long after his death for the claim on the invention of the radio over Marconi. He died around the time of WW2(not becuase of the war).\nHe invented solutions and saw the invention in his head and never took many notes...The things you mentioned are yet to be confirmed and could very well be true, some of his inventions are mind-boggling.\n\n...you should have a look at the book : \nNikola Tesla - The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century. \n\n- hope this helps...thanks.
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all time high. tech and powered work was revolutionized. so the most responsible item for the industrial revolution had to be communication. other peers in a field did not have to rely soley on their own working knowledge and experience's for advancement of the field as a whole. just imagine our world 100 yrs from now, knowing that in 1880 leeching was still used although not common. and also the first umm personal vibrator was invented sometime around then, and i think (heard on radio) that it was treatment for phsycopath or something, diagnosed in females with symptoms like irritability etc, but the names might be mixed up. but neat huh? hmmmmmm. i dont know of the truth of the latter. but fte and gnight.
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false, but the rumor probably started I believe one of Edison's bulbs is still burning in Menlo park (his lab).\n\nIt's never been turned off, which helps it last longer.
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Designer, inventor and innovator Nikola Tesla.
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If you don't count the abacus, which is ancient, then Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical computation machine in France in 1642. Check it yo!\n\nhttp://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm
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Yes.  We had mechanical voting machines for decades.  You disappear behind a curtain and pull the crank to clear the machine when finished moving levers.  I've read those old monsters are the most precise.
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Yes. Do a little research. Your teacher will be proud of you. Find all you can about a wizard named Nikola Tesla.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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i would say the AC/DC motor. Invented far ahead of it's time and still being used today.  From air conditioners to alternators, even electricity from Hydroelectric dams. The best invention that's keeps on giving for free.  Generators that if you turn create electricity or if Fed electricity it would turn.  Works one way and same thing the other way around.  Also the wheel it was a beautiful invention and still is in use today.
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(m)\n\nGoto the below link for ur answer\n\nhttp://www.altair.org/tesla.html
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1) The Telephone \nThe telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.\n2) The History of Computers\nThere are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting with 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer.\n3) Television \nIn 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.\n4) The Automobile\nIn 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steam-powered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took the internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.\n5) The Cotton Gin \nEli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.\n6) The Camera\nIn 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.\n7) The Steam Engine\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765.\n8) The Sewing Machine\nThe first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.\n9) The Light Bulb\nContrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.\n10) Penicillin \nPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Without having waded through the pseudo science on line, I can say the Tesla was a great scientist and inventor - and also a bit of a nut.  The problem is that so many people have chosen to take advantage of the obscurity of so much of Tesla's work and use it as a way to confuse the less technical into believing whatever claptrap they choose to attach to Tesla's words.\n\nLook carefully at what Tesla said his invention would do and avoid letting anyone expand too much on it - It's like letting some one say Einstein said E=mc^2 and so this penny with mass .26 grams is going to power your car, just follow me...   It's not that simple - Tesla's ideas are not that simple either.
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A new invention has been made. The dynamo, also known as an electrical generator, is a device that produces electrical energy from a mechanical energy source.\nUsing the device will give us a lot of help because it can deliver power for industry and the neighborhood.\nIn the year of 1831 - 1832, the inventor Michael Faraday made up a test through the potential difference which is generated with the ends of an electric conductor that would move perpendicular towards to a magnetic field. Having this effect, Michael Faraday also built the first electromagnetic generator on the process of a copper disc rotating between the poles of a horseshoe magnet. It produced a small direct current. It was named as "Faraday's disc". Faraday's disc dynamo needs a magnetic field in order to produce an electric current (to produce current you need magnetic field, but to produce a magnetic field you need current).
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It annoys me that you can't just look up his invention plans anymore online. In the last 5 years information on him has been dissapearing and other websites want money for it.\n\nI think the U.S. government owns a fair few of his patents and likes to keep tesla's work secret
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I assume you were refering to Nicoli Tesla. Indeed he was great man. I read a book about him several years ago. It was he that invented alternating current. The credit usually goes to george westinghouse, and he does indeed deserve partial credit-he financed Mr. Tesla.\n\nTesla invented many things that are in use today. Of course A.C. was the big one. There are other reasons why tesla is not so famous. His main rival was Tom Edison. Tom Edison was also a inventor (duh) and his idea of using D.C. was the one to beat. Tesla's A.C. was superior and edison knew it, but Edison had a huge ego and did stunts trying to show that A.C. was dangerous. Basicaly he electrocuted animals on stage. If you look hard on the internet you will find a very old video of edison electrocuting an elephant to death. \n\nWhat it all boils down to is Westinghouse and Edison hating each other and that is what the public saw, and poor old tesla was just plain forgotten about.
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Both were extremely hard working and expected the same from assistants.\n\nTesla had much the better initial education and, arguably, the greater endowment of intellect.  He was more persistent than stubborn and much less given to pettiness.  I suspect he had far greater ethical standards.  He was not so focused on money, and had not Westinghouse greatly assisted him, his life might have been more obscure.\n\nTesla had much the better grasp of the limitless potentials within matter and electricity.  In many ways he presaged much of modern science, including things yet to be developed.\n\nThomas Edison was considerably more petty and cranky, though an astute manager of business affairs in comparison to Tesla.  He was an extremely hard worker and never let up once focused on developing something.  He is famous for his quotation that "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" -- in other words, lots of hard work.  Edison is all the more remarkable for having had very little formal schooling.\n\nUndoubtedly, both were great self-learners.  Tesla's ideas prevailed in the electric power industry, and many remnants of his thinking are still being explored.  Unfortunately, there is a dearth of this material.  Tesla's remaining papers and inventions and apparatus were either destroyed or confiscated by the United States Government.\n\nIn their effects upon society, I tend to rank them as equals.  Both contributed to the age of electricity and electrical products about equally.\n\nAs people, I am much more interested in Tesla, and would prefer to work under such a person were I young once more.  In the long run, Tesla is more intriguing, but I think Edison is much more famous with more ordinary people, especially in the USA.\n\nFor superior mind:  Tesla, without a doubt.