Nikola Tesla And His Spectacular Experiments
By 1893 Nikola Tesla and his alternating current had become a household name.
Yet despite his new notoriety Tesla is a pure inventor, a great dreamer and does not actively pursue the commercial exploitation of his ideas.
His many remarkable breakthroughs in high frequency electricity include radar, radio, neon and fluorescent lamps are often attributed to others.
For instance Tesla’s invention of shadow graphs, a system for taking x-ray photographs predates the work of German physicist Wilhem Rontgen.
Tesla’s fertile imagination enkindles theories for the internet and television years ahead of time.
Tesla often announced his ideas to the press in an exaggerated manner and this caused the inventor a lot public criticism. He was a flamboyant and mysterious man who was always eager to share his ideas with the world.
Tesla mingled with some of the most elite people in the world at the time, Mark Twain, Westinghouse and JP Morgan. It was from his acquaintances that he was able to finance some of the most spectacular experiments in history.
As a publicity stunt Nikola Tesla would sit in his laboratory while massive bolts of electricity danced around him without the use of wires. These airborne streamers would freely illuminate the lamps held in Tesla’s hands.
Tesla was the first to show how to transmit wireless energy through the air to ignite electrical bulbs or tubes, they were fluorescent tubes, which he had in the room. These tubes would respond to different frequencies. So when he produced one frequency one group of lights would ignite and if he produced another frequency then another different group would ignite.
He would have a display of different kinds of lamps and bulbs set on a table and they would light up in sequence amazingly like dancing lights. It was a fantastic display something that nobody had never seen before.
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