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originally posted by: Ahabstar
Will the US Patent Office be a "good enough" source or do we need a field trip to Belgrade to see if we can look through his journal housed there?
Tesla described Teleforces operation:
... The nozzle would send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks
originally posted by: engvbany
You've all overlooked Nikola's his most incredible* invention : his death-ray ...
Tesla described Teleforces operation:
... The nozzle would send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks
en.wikipedia.org...
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originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: jimmyx
tesla was by far, the most brilliant in the field of "applied" sciences....he was so far ahead of his time, that upon his death, the government itself, confiscated much of his work, and it has not been made public since....he died on jan. 7, 1943, and 71 years later, they still will not release his documents, they remain classified...what could be so important to remain classified after 71 years?
Michael Faraday was twice the Scientist that was Tesla. Look at what Faraday achieved compared to Tesla.
en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
Tesla is over hyped and overblown. Tesla only improved what others had done before him.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
But by all means, don't take my word for it nor the word of anyone you should meet that is qualified to give a lecture on the history of computers as they will tell you the same thing. Go out there and do all that deep internet research for yourself because we all know if it isn't on the internet then it isn't real.
originally posted by: Cauliflower
That article about a beam that could bring down 10,000 planes was published in 1934.
That was a key year in the development of the Z pinch.
en.wikipedia.org...
Could Tesla have been secretly hinting at the possibilities of a colliding beam fusion reactor?
It's also ironic that while Tesla is credited for perfecting the AC motor, the "Tesla" automobiles that bear his name use DC motors
originally posted by: C0bzz
Tesla Motors uses 3-phase AC Induction Motors, not DC.
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: C0bzz
Tesla Motors uses 3-phase AC Induction Motors, not DC.
How incredibly inefficient! One would think that their engineers would not have wasted money and technology needlessly like that...I guess Tesla autos are NOT what they're cracked up to be.
sad!
In contrast, induction machines have no magnets and B fields are “adjustable,” since B is proportionate to V/f (voltage to frequency). This means that at light loads the inverter can reduce voltage such that magnetic losses are reduced and efficiency is maximized. Thus, the induction machine when operated with a smart inverter has an advantage over a DC brushless machine – magnetic and conduction losses can be traded such that efficiency is optimized. This advantage becomes increasingly important as performance is increased. With DC brushless, as machine size grows, the magnetic losses increase proportionately and part load efficiency drops. With induction, as machine size grows, losses do not necessarily grow. Thus, induction drives may be the favored approach where high-performance is desired; peak efficiency will be a little less than with DC brushless, but average efficiency may actually be better.