VM,
What was/is the reason for your research on this man?
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Who is the man with the mustache?
by VM44 15 Replies latest jw friends
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IP_SEC
Correct, The two men are indeed Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla.
Our species was fortunate to have 2 of the greatest minds ever, living at the same time.
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IP_SEC
and how much is sensationalism as some of the folks around here who go on about Tesla are definite nutcases. Anyone care to educate me about Tesla?
Hortensia,
Tesla was certainly no nutcase. Much of the technology that makes modern life possible is Teslan.
He conceptualized the rotating magnetic field which lead to his invention of the multi-phase AC electric motor.
Although Marconi gets the credit, I firmly believe that Tesla first invented a working radio transmitter and reciever.
He and Westinghouse pushed AC voltage which became the world wide standard for consumer household and industrial electricity service.
He conceptualized and began to experiment with wireless electrical service. If he had not run out of money, there would be no power grids today. Rather a grid of wireless transmitters using the earth and ionosphere as a huge capacitor. You would simply earthground a wireless electrical receiver and tune to the correct frequency to get electrical power.
Tesla died a poor man because he believed his inventions should be used for the benifit of man and gave them freely to us.
There have been many unsubstanciated myths build around him, but he was no crack pot.
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VM44
Hi Vernon,
I have known about Charles Steinmetz for many years. He was a German trained mathematician who come over to America in the late 19th century and became a renown electrical engineer working for General Electric. Steinmetz's name was actually quite well known to the public back in the 1920's.
I was looking up the year of publication of one his early books when I found that photo.
It appears that most of Steinmetz's books are available for downloading at Google Books. The one I was interesting is at this page:
LINK: Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena.
Other book of Steinmetz's that might be of more general interest is one he wrote in 1916, America and the New Epoch, which is also available for downloading from Google books.
LINK: America and the New Epoch (1916)
Another biographical web page that provides some more interesting details about his life is:
Charles Steinmetz: Union's electrical wizard
http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=1512
Steinmetz was a Unitarian and also wrote a sermon with the title, "The Place of Religion in Modern Scientific Law". It is something I think would be very interesting to read.
--VM44
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Seeker4
I recognized Steinmetz before I did Einstein! I've been a fan of this interesting, deformed genius since I was a kid. There are great stories about Steinmetz - he seems to have been a compassionate man who could easily stand in the company of Einstein and Tesla.
Thanks for the photo and the memories it brought back.
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Hortensia
Thanks for the information - I wonder if there is a good biography - I'll have to go looking online.