Someone, for some reason, wanted Tesla’s work suppressed…
At the top of the suspected conspirator list is Thomas Edison. Edison despised his former employee’s success with AC, and it is known that he set out on a campaign to smear Tesla’s name. He held demonstrations at which animals were lethally electrocuted with AC-powered devices, in a deceptive and inhumane effort to warn the public of the danger posed by Tesla and Westinghouse’s “unsafe” new electrical system. Edison also sat on the War Department advisory board that rejected Tesla’s proposals of the death ray and his radar-like device.
J. P. Morgan is also implicated in the anti-Tesla cover-up. Morgan counted on increasing his already monumental wealth by exploiting Tesla’s ideas, until he learned that Tesla was considering the free distribution of energy — a terrifying idea to any self-respecting capitalist. He ended his funding of Tesla’s experiments at once, and some think he used his considerable clout to ensure that no one else would bankroll Tesla’s threatening schemes[Source]
Tesla’s (web archived) life story: index, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6 (originally hosted at parascope.com)
There was a PBS documentary, and there’s some interesting (albeit derivative) information at viewzone.com on modern uses ov Tesla’s inventions and research, from radio transmitters to weather control to transcranial magnetic stimulation through electromagnetic fields (God Helmets – DIY)
(and that’s without mentioning Project Rainbow, the Montauk Project, or the whole Ong’s Hat mess)
Another do-it-yourself project: Building a Tesla Coil
personally, I think Tesla rocked
May 1, 2004 at 2:22 pm
A biography on Tesla I had read in Jr. High is one of the reasons I got into electronics in the first place.
May 13, 2004 at 6:01 am
Found this article:
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/05/11/novus.htm
“VYZMusic.com Launched to Promote New Freelance Movie About Tesla.”