The Mystery Men – Part 1
By: Seeker
Two men stand out as having done something strange that, in spite of many trying, nobody else has been able to duplicate. Each, in their own way, reached beyond what we know to alter what we thought was possible with either electric or magnetic effects.
Nicola Tesla lived at the turn of the last century (1856 – 1943) and was a prodigious inventor, born in Serbia. That electricity you plug into every day was his invention – you might think of Edison when you think of who invented Alternating Current electricity, and you’d be wrong. In fact Tesla was working on broadcast AC power while Edison was still failing to move Direct Current electricity more than a few kilometers.
And broadcast power would have provided the world with very cheap power – once you’ve bought the receiver, there’s no easy way to charge you for what you use.
Tesla is also suspected by some to have caused the Tunguska explosion – conventional science insists it was an airburst meteor or comet fragment but there is conflicting evidence that leaves the question open. Tesla was supposed to be conducting an experiment that would ‘light the sky’ over the Arctic, to be witnessed by an American expedition up there at the time. The theory is he missed his target and Tunguska occurred, fortunately striking an very unpopulated area in Siberia.
Tesla had ideas about charge that he proved in solid inventions – you most likely have a Tesla device in your electricity metering box attached to your house. Look him up – he was an interesting guy who ran afoul of the powerful Edison and suffered for it.
And there’s still a mystery as to why the FBI cleaned out his hotel room within an hour or so of his death.
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