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TESLA INTERVIEW Seeker: Yesterday you spoke about inventions that are ahead of their time. Can you give us any modern examples? Tesla: Velcro was patented in the 1950's. The inventor got the idea from those burrs one gets while walking out in fields. He received a mere thousand dollars for the invention, but it didn't take off until years after his patents lapsed. Holography has yet to be used at the level it was intended. Seeker: And that was? Tesla: Three-dimensional movies. Essential-ly, the same thing happened with my wireless phone and with wireless communication in general. By the time radio really came into its own, starting in the late1920's, my patents were no longer valid, and so I suffered financially because of it. Seeker: Didn't the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company compensate you? Tesla: Meagerly, and only after I threatened suit. I had already given them the patents on the AC polyphase system, the electrical power distribution system that earned them hundreds of millions of dollars, and now they were beginning a new venture, radio broadcasting, all based on other patents which I had offered to them a generation earlier, and at first they tried to stonewall me, but eventually they capitulated and gave me a consulting fee and also took care of my rent at the Hotel New Yorker before I decided to go underground in 1943. Seeker: It has been stated that your were a celibate. What is your view of women. Do you think a woman could ever be president? Tesla: I made the decision long ago to devote my life to science. Had I gotten married, and Lord knows, Kate Johnson tried to hitch me, I would never have had the time to devote to my work. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomenon the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fomenting in the bosom of the race. It is not in the shallow physical imitation of the men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of their intellect. As generations ensue, the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated into an activity that will be all the more intense because of centuries of repose. This tendency is apparently being accelerated as we enter the new century, and so I expect that a competent women will become president before not too long. Seeker: Do you have any opinion about the situation in Yugoslavia? Tesla: I'm appalled by the violence
and discord. My father was a Serbian minister and we lived, after my
brother died, in the town of Gospic in the province of Croatia. I had
both Serb and Croat friends and also had buddies who were German, Italian
and French as Gospic was a thriving city at that time. Seeker: Why is there so much hatred among these three people? Tesla: For different reasons. The
Croats and the Serbs are the same people separated by geography and
religion. The Croats are Roman Catholic and live in Croatia, along the
Adriatic. The Serbs, for the most part, live in Belgrade or in Montenegro
in the interior of the country closer to Bulgaria and Romania, and these
people are Orthodox Greek Catholics. One main difference in the two
religions is that the Roman Catholics adhere to the Pope in Rome, whereas
the Orthodox Greeks do not. Their priests, such as my father, are able
to marry. There are many other differences between the two groups as
well. For instance, through the centuries, the Croats sought to become
Westernized, whereas the Serbs were generally frontiersmen, many of
whom spent much of their time fighting the Turks who through the Ottoman
Empire threatened Europe. The Europeans can never repay the great debt
it owes to the Serbs for checking, by the sacrifice of their own liberty
that barbarian influx. Seeker: But isn't much of the ethnic cleansing initiated by Serbs? Tesla: Barbarians, unfortunately, come in all stripes. I do not condone killing of any kind. One of the underlying reasons for the mass killings has to do with the overpopulation. Bosnians tend to have large families, whereas the Serbs generally have only one or two children. This, of course, is not a reason to.... Seeker: ... even out the playing field? Tesla: Yes. But it does raise an important issue completely neglected by most of the world leaders and that is the vast overpopulation of the planet. In the following century, we will see eugenics universally established. Seeker: Population control? Tesla: Of course. It has already begun in China where we have see families restricted to one child per household. Unfortunately, the opposite trend is evident in America. Not only have we seen the breakdown of the family unit but also a startling rise in single parents and unwanted pregnancies. Having children out of wedlock is undesirable, and in fact, we should go one step further, and make the process of marriage more difficult and impose penalties on those who produce children without the ability to care for them. Seeker: So you are opposed to the welfare system? Tesla: The welfare system only exists in this country. But certainly here, it has interfered with the natural process of survival of the fittest which has been set up in the Almighty wisdom of nature to weed out less desirable strains. A governmental body instituted through the United Nations should educate the youth in rigorous fashion, prevent unfit individuals from having children and control population by restricting families to one or two children at most. Monogamous relationships through marriage should be fostered and education about hygiene should be promulgated. Seeker: There has been some controversy about how your brother died. One recent biography stated that there were rumors that you pushed your brother down a flight of stairs and that is what caused his death. Tesla: My brother died in an accident with a horse when I was five years old and he was twelve. This rumor was started by a screenplay writer whose name was Arthur Beckhard. It was picked up at my museum in Belgrade and then spread by ignorant writers who were not able to trace to crazy story to its proper source. Seeker: Thomas Edison ranks first on Life Magazine's 100 People Who Made the Millennium list. You land 57th. Yet, AC polyphase power system is fundamental to our modern age. Why do you think you're repeatedly cast in the background as a great scientist? Tesla: Can I see that list? [Seeker
hands Tesla the list.] So, they have Edison above Galileo, Michael Faraday,
Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton? Well, if Life Magazine says so.... Seeker: Isn't it possible that your own actions -- talking to Martians, free energy, death rays contributed to damaging your reputation? Tesla: There is every evidence that there are intelligent forces in the solar system or galaxy. In 1899 I received beated pulsed frequencies which were obvious signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life which I thought might have come from the planet Mars. Seeker: One recent biographer has suggested that these three pulses came from, dare I say, your competitor Marconi, who was experimenting in transmitting the Morse code for the letter S, namely dot. dot. dot. at the very time that you claimed you received these messages. Tesla: All poppycock. There is nothing more important than interplanetary communication and I have the equipment for achieving the best results. If this makes me a mad scientist, so be it. You asked before why my name has been obscured, another reason is because numerous individuals simply take my work, adopt it as their own and feel no need to credit the source of their inspiration. Take Steven Spielberg for instance. One of his early achievements is the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The entire premise of that film was adopted right from my article "Talking With the Planets" whereby I stated that it would be through electrical impulses based upon mathematical patterns that communications with extraterrestrials would begin. Did Spielberg give me credit? No! I threatened suit against him and he claimed that because my idea was over 75 years old it was in the public domain and that I didn't have a case, so I dropped it. Another example was John Galt in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. This was a tremendous hit when it came out, and it's still a best seller. The novel starts with the line, "Who is John Galt." Two hundred pages into the book we finally meet Galt, and he's an inventor working on a coil which draws electrical energy from the atmosphere. Don't you think she should have called me or made some overt reference to my work? The same thing goes for David Bowie who played the extraterrestrial in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. This is another veiled reference to my work, which again, went uncredited. At least James Redfield mentioned me in his newest book on the Celestine Prophecy called the Tenth Insight. My work has always been for the future and I believe that five hundred years from now my achievements will be recognized fairly. Seeker: Aside from Edison, who were your other great rivals: Steinmetz? Pupin? Marconi? Tesla: Pupin was more an ignoramus than a rival. He couldn't even speak the native tongue properly. He had sided with Elihu Thomson, who along with Charles Steinmetz were my main rivals in the field of alternating current. Steinmetz and Thomson were working for the company that came to be called General Electric, and they were stuck with the wrong AC patents. So they stole our blueprints and began reverse engineering my induction motor and polyphase design. The scheme was uncovered and they were taken to court. Westinghouse, who owned my patents prevailed. This didn't stop Steinmetz from writing entire textbooks on AC without referencing my name! This tact, of removing my name from my invention was carried on by Pupin, who was teaching electrical engineering at Columbia University at that time. He actually had the audacity to write in his autobiography that the reason why the AC system was put in at Niagara Falls was because of the work of Elihu Thomson, my competitor! Pupin neglected to inform his readers that it is my name that is listed 12 times on the patent placque at Niagara and that it was Nikola Tesla who was invited to speak there as the inventor. I am sorry for him, that is all I can say. Seeker: And Marconi? Tesla: I spoke before the Royal
Society in London in 1892 when Marconi was a junior in high school.
And there, in London, I slept at Sir William Preece's house and spent
a weekend with Ambrose Fleming showing each of them all my equipment.
A few years later, when Marconi came to England to look for funding,
he demonstrated his primitive Hertzian toy which sent dots and dashes
across a room or from one building to another and Preece, who was the
head of the Post Office and the most well respected electrician in England,
took him under his wing. Shortly thereafter, Fleming was called in.
Preece wrote to ask me if they could use my oscillators, and naturally
I said yes, but Marconi told them he did not need my equipment, and
I naively believed that they would continue to use the Hertzian method. Seeker: What was your view of George Westinghouse? Tesla: George Westinghouse was a man with tremendous potential energy of which only part had taken kinetic form. Like a lion in the forest, he breathed deep and with delight the smoky air of his Pittsburgh factories. Always affable and polite, he stood in marked contrast to the small-minded financiers I had been trying to negotiate with before I met him. Yet, no fiercer adversary could have been found when aroused. Although impressive in ordinary life, he was transformed into a giant when confronted with difficulties that seemed insurmountable. During the height of the war of the currents, when death row inmates were being electrocuted with our AC system as a PR campaign by the Edison crowd against us, Westinghouse welcomed the struggle and never lost confidence. When others would give up in despair, he triumphed. Seeker: Were you always on good terms with him? Tesla: Yes. My troubles with the Westinghouse company had nothing to do with George. They had taken on enormous debt in their fight against General Electric in order to win the right to light the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and Niagara Falls in 1897, and it would be a long time before their company was profitable again. I believe their debt by the late 1890's was nearly one hundred million. That is when some of the small-minded backers of the company wrestled George from the seat of power and made him a titular head instead. It was somewhat remindful of what happened to Stephen Jobs in the late 1980's. Jobs, as we mentioned before, wanted to scrap all of Apple's Apple II computers and switch over entirely to the Macintosh which was their new disk operating system. This meant canning thousands of computers, many of which were in schools so he could convert to a more advanced but untried system. Rather than comply with Jobs request, the board kicked him out of his own company. Abandoned for nearly 10 years, they finally took him back when the company was on the verge of going under, and he brought them back to where they are today. It was a similar thing with Westinghouse, but he was kept on only as a figure head. So when I tried in the early 1900's to get additional funding for my wireless enterprise, they balked and he was powerless. It was really sad to see such an important figure without recourse. He died before his time in 1914, in part, because of this disappointment. Seeker: When Marconi and RCA were pursuing wireless technology, what were you doing? Why didn't you persist, since technically you got to the wireless arena first? Tesla: This was during the Great War and shortly thereafter, when the United States was still neutral. I was working with the German concern Telefunken on redesigning their intercontinental equipment. They had two plants, one in New Jersey and one on Long Island, and both were easily communicating across the Atlantic with Berlin in the heart of Germany. Telefunken was paying me $2,000 a month against 5% royalties. Unfortunately, the German situation became intolerable, particularly with the sinking of the Lusitannia, and I broke off all contact with them and lost a considerable fortune. It is very costly to litigate. Most of my patents had lapsed by the time RCA was created in 1920, and I was simply cut out of the deal. I had also shifted my focus to bladeless turbines at that time and was living in Chicago, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. My plans were to create steam engines and turbines to replace the gasoline engine in the car, and also other engines on the airships, submarines, in torpedoes and on ocean liners. I was hoping through the sale of this engine, particularly to Henry Ford, that I would realize the profits I would need to erect a new transmission tower and thereby dwarf the puny technology that was in existence at that time. Seeker: You mean RCA. Tesla: Yes, and the Westinghouse
Broadcasting Company. Had I sold my engine to Ford, I would have moved
to the next step and that would be to eliminate almost totally the use
of fossil fuels in cars, planes and ships. The wireless towers would
provide the power instead. So, that was my plan and that was what I
was working on at that time. I also offered the plan to the governmetn
with my friend John Flowers, but they also turned it down. It is shameful
that at this day and age we are still relying on non-renewable sources
of energy like gasoline. My plant at Niagara Falls is a renewable source
of clean energy. It is ecologically responsible and environmen-tally
sound. Seeker: Some of your followers have said that you should be called the father of the internet. Do you agree? Tesla: Well, you can decide for yourself. I said in 1904, that my scheme of "World Telegraphy" is easily realizable. It constitutes a radical and fruitful departure from what has been done heretofore involving the employment of a number of plants each of each of [which] will be preferably located near some important center of civilization. The news it receives through any channel will be flashed to all points of the globe. A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one's pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world's news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts. Since a single plant of but one hundred horse-power can operate hundreds of millions of instruments, the system will have a virtually infinite working capacity. Seeker: Had you envisioned the world wide web as we have it now? Tesla: No. I saw or foresaw the inter-connection of all civilized people all over the earth by voice and picture. I was also planning on providing a world-wide news service which would have delivered each day's news through a machine similar to today's facsimile machine, thereby making newspapers obsolete. My vision was more in line with what came to be called mass communications and the cellular age. Seeker: You have written a number of articles suggesting that you planned to communicate with beings on other planets. Tesla: After I received communication which I attributed to the planet Mars, I set my sights on developing a way to transmit intelligent signals and also power to neighbors in this solar system and beyond. Some of my first experiments involved the transmission of a thin ray of light to the part of the moon that was darkened. This was done with my associate Mr. Czito in 1918 for the purposes of demonstration. The point of energy was very easily seen, and this same beam could also be used with needle-nosed accuracy to transmit signals and energy to other planets as well. Seeker: Was this a laser beam? Tesla: Similar, but it is a different kind of energy that travels through a channel of less than one-half of one-millionth of a centimeter. This invention, which I will shortly announce to the world, utilizes a new source of power which is the same power that operates the universe. This cosmic energy, whose central source for the earth is the sun, is present everywhere and in unlimited quantities. Seeker: Such as free energy? Tesla: In a sense. One needs an apparatus to harness it. From the actual mechanical contrivance which I have developed, the power to drive engines and machines can be transmitted either by wire or by my wireless system, as preferred, from central plants to the other side of the world, to across the street, or a million miles away, whichever one prefers. These central plant engines that mechanize the cosmic energy will operate on an entirely new principle, thereby developing hundreds of thousands of horsepower, as much power as one desires. Any number of such central plants can be built, so there is no limit to the volume of power which it will be possible to develop for the turning of machinery -- for the running of trains and automobiles, the driving of ships, the operating of factories, the myriad different motor tasks now performed by engines and machines which derive their power from the regular fuels of industry. When this new power becomes commercially available, there will be no further necessity for depending on coal, oil, gas or any other of the common fuels. Seeker: You say this new source will be come from the sun? Tesla: Yes. And the stars. Having struggled with the problem for the last 103 years, I can state after prolonged investigation, that I have discovered a heretofore unknown source of power. The sun's potential is 216 billions of volts and like other heavenly bodies, it emits cosmic rays. When I first announced this fact, in 1896, it was scoffed at, but now cosmic rays are an accepted phenomena. However, present day scientists, blinded by relativity, and only measuring these rays on the surface of the earth, think that these rays are limited to the speed of light. This is not so. Seeker: How fast do they travel? Tesla: I have measured cosmic rays as far back as 1896 that travel 50 times the speed of light, and I believe that others travel 500 times. I have already designed apparatus to transmit impulses twice the speed of light to go to other planets and to nearby stars. Seeker: And you have harnessed these cosmic rays? Tesla: Of course. My investigations have brought out the astonishing fact that the effects of these rays at high altitudes are of an entirely different nature than here on earth. That is one of the reasons why present-day scientists have not measured the same results. They are looking too low to the ground. There are particles of matter projected from celestial bodies that are at very high temperatures and charged to enormous electrical potentials.This is the discovery which I wish to make known. The sun projects charged particles constituting an electric current which passes through a conducting stratum of the atmosphere approximately 10 kilometers thick enveloping the earth. The passage of the solar current involves the transference of electric charges from particle to particle with the speed of light, this resulting in the production of extremely short and penetrating waves which have a 2 billion volt differential from the dark side to the light side of the earth. This energy differential accounts for the aurora borealis and other phenomena. Just as a waterfall presents a constant flow of renewable energy, so does this process. My central plants harness this differential to provide an unending stream of energy derived from the wheelwork of the universe. I expect, this invention to be fully operational within a year. Seeker: You were one of the first scientists to experiment with solar energy. Today, solar energy has been relegated to the margins of alternative energy research. In its place is the newest rage -- hydrogen power. What went wrong with solar? And do yo think hydrogen will be the next revolution in energy since fossil fuels? Tesla: I don't know much about hydrogen power. One of the greatest problems with solar energy is in storing the energy. That is where the research should be focussed on. Although present day scientists see the sun as radiating energy, it is my belief that the sun is absorbing vast amounts of energy from elsewhere in the galaxy. I further believe that radioactive material is simply a target which is continuously bombarded by infinitesimal bullets projected from these same radiating bodies from all parts of the universe. These particles are a type of cosmic ray that vastly exceed the speed of light. The study of solar energy should not be abandoned. It is one of the greatest sources of renewable energy and provides solutions for many of the problems that vex our society. Seeker: You refused to share the 1915 Nobel Prize with Edison. Why? Tesla: Edison was a builder of better mouse traps. Every one of his inventions including the movie camera, the lightbulb, microphone, even his phonograph were simply improvements upon the discovery and the works of others. And for that, he deserves a dozen Nobel Prizes. I, on the other hand, was a discoverer of new principles. I discovered the rotating magnetic field which enabled AC to be harnessed for the first time. I discovered the concept of continuous wave oscillations which enabled voice, pictures and power to be transmitted by means of wireless, I discovered the principle of remote control, I made practicable the concept of artificial intelligence by constructing the first ever non-biological life-form which I called the telautomaton, I conceived of the idea of selective tuning and generated the patents which enabled an infinite number of wireless channels to be created, I invented the bladeless turbine which did away with propellers, I invented an oscillator which made the crank-shaft obsolete, designed an airplane that could take off vertically like a helicopter and tilt the propeller into the conventional horizontal position, I figured out how to use the principle of repulsion to construct particle beam guns that could protect a country's borders, sink ships and take down planes. All of these ideas are original to me. There are no precursors. I was not a mere inventor like Edison, but a creator of new principles. I have not less than four dozen of my creations identified with my name in technical literature. These are honors real and permanent which are bestowed not by a few who are apt to err, but by the whole world which seldom makes a mistake, and for any of these, I would gladly give all the Nobel Prizes which will be distributed during the next thousand years. Seeker: And today, do you see any analogous situations? Tesla: Certainly. There are many scientists who are overlooked for the work they do, and on the other side of the stick, there also individuals who call themselves scientists when they are really politicians. A number of these in this second group make statements supporting the tobacco industry. Others have been ousted from academia as rightly they should for fudging data because it supports their premise. There is a tendency in funding which precludes aiding for the independent scientist and a tunnel vision that latches on to such crazy notions as worm holes and black holes in space, neither of which exist in the real world but, rather exist in the imagination as theoretical constructs. Seeker: What do you think of the inventor in today's society and his relationship to the corporate world? Tesla: There is a concerted move to strip the inventor of his patents or provide a legal basis to use protected material, and a callous attitude that favors the corporate giants who purposely pirate or reverse engineer the inventions of individual inventors because they know it will be too costly for them to litigate. Part of the corporations' strategy is that in the long run it will actually be cheaper to take their chances on immediate profits and pay any legal loss if infringement can be proven. Many times it is nearly impossible to prove infringement even when it blatantly occurs. Just recently, Time Magazine ran an article about a man who was imprisoned because he utilized university facilities to design his creations and he was unwilling to hand the patents over to them. He preferred jail and lost his marriage in the process. One of the most successful inventors of the modern day, Jerome Lemulson, whose creations include laser memory cards, the audio cassette drive mechanism, stop-frame on video recorders and the floppy disk, spends 90% of his time in litigation! He does most of his creative work on trains on his way to court, and during off time during the trials! Gordon Gould, one of the key inventors of the laser didn't win his suit until he was an old man and so revenues gained were essentially useless to him. Edwin Armstrong, one of my protegés and inventor of AM and FM radio, had to sue David Sarnoff and NBC as they were using his FM frequencies in television transmission. Rather than admit their piracy, they simply accused him of infringement instead! Not only did he lose his entire fortune, which was over a million dollars, he lost his marriage and committed suicide by jumping out a building. NBC eventually compensated his family after his death. A similar thing happened to Robert Goddard, inventor of the rocket ship who was forced to sue the U.S. government for patent infringement. His suit, like Armstrong's wasn't settled until after his death as well. Seeker: Why did the government (FBI) raid your lab and confiscate your notes after you d---- er, after it was reported that you had passed on? What do you think they were looking for? Were you hiding something? Tesla: On the contrary. This was during the height of World War II and the fear was the Germany would win and take over the world. My plan was simple: have each country arm its borders with particle beam weapons. Had America, the Soviet Union, England and France listened to me, they would have been able to ward off theLuftwaffe, which was the most destructively successful element to any German invasion. After I disappeared in 1943, the FBI and U.S. War department raided my apartment to get the plans for this weapon for the simple reason that they did not want the Germans or any other country to obtain it. It was my idea to publicize the details of this invention, for I sincerely believed that if all nations had a foolproof way of protecting its borders, war would become obsolete. Off in the distance, a helicopter caught
the wizard's eye. He stared down the river at it as he pulled out a
pocket watch. "I'm sorry, my young friend, but I have another appointment.
Would it be all right if Czito showed you out?"
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The following morning, the seeker,
who was staying at the Waldorf, was awakened by a pecking at his window.
When he opened the shade to take a look, a white dove flew in and settled
on his web-linked cellular. The bird cocked his head and cooed. Stepping
on the power button before he took flight, the bird sailed back out
the window and banked out of sight. The seeker looked down at his liquid
crystal display. "Meet me at 2 & 60," was all it said.