Most of this doesn't appear to be confiscated documents, but rather just letters sent to the FBI and a few scanned (covers of) books. The 3rd part of the release is somewhat interesting as it's about flying saucers (from a news letter). It has the statement(s): > This letter will not reach you in time to sight a flying saucer over New York on the night of June 10, from 10pm to 1am It then goes on to discuss "space pe…
Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. He was a recipient of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. John Trump was noted for developing rotational radiation therapy. Together with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. H…
I think its the fact that his children appear to be more or less in the same mold as himself that has colored people's opinions of the family. But yes, the family as a whole seems pretty well to do.
Very few children of billionaires become notable people themselves, outside of usually philanthropy or keeping the family business in much of it's original state (millionaires kids as well to a much lesser degree). There are some very clear human and biological reasons why. Even in the tech industry with hyper progressive parenting it's rare to hear about the kids outside of capital raising circles.
Regardless I was talking about talent and achievements here not personality, and I don't think there's much use of discussing that here. It's been discussed to death elsewhere.
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#43Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Please don't get your history from The Oatmeal. If you want to read a real account of what Edison actually did, the opening chapters of this classic are great:
https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-1...
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#44Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
I like the oatmeal, but that comic is just a collection of urban myths about Tesla.
http://edisontechcenter.org/tesladebunked.html
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#45Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
I like the oatmeal, but that comic is just a collection of urban myths about Tesla. http://edisontechcenter.org/tesladebunked.html
> Mr. Inman [author of The Oatmeal], like many comedians seems to be fundamentally unhappy and finds an outlet through humor. Oddly enough his behavior is similar to Tesla's in that he reacts in a nasty fashion if someone challenges his ideas
Yikes, got a less biased source? It's 2017, it's sad the emotional feud between Tesla and Edison continues like this.
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#46249 pages! Other comments said that it was released a year ago. Can someone write about the juicy stuff?
The stamp on the papers say it was marked unclassified in 1980-82, which would have been ~40yrs after most of the papers dates (and his death). Was it really only released a year ago?
Well you may believe me or not, but this was in circulation at one of the Serbian BBS around 15 years ago.
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#47Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
I like the oatmeal, but that comic is just a collection of urban myths about Tesla. http://edisontechcenter.org/tesladebunked.html
While all of that may be absolutely true, the title of the group of that source doesn't instill confidence as unbiased historians. It makes me wonder if they're promoting team edison. Can anyone recommend a better source?
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#48Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
This is also why I usually ignore news I hear about Nikola Tesla. That Oatmeal comic, aside from the fact that it's just immature and nasty, I believe kicked off a weird kind of Tesla fanboy-ism which just seems useless.
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#49Most of this doesn't appear to be confiscated documents, but rather just letters sent to the FBI and a few scanned (covers of) books. The 3rd part of the release is somewhat interesting as it's about flying saucers (from a news letter). It has the statement(s): > This letter will not reach you in time to sight a flying saucer over New York on the night of June 10, from 10pm to 1am It then goes on to discuss "space pe…
It was interesting that the FBI was taking the last 10 years of Telsa's life as possibly serious. Man people figured he went mad in his early 70s and didn't really do anything for the last 10 years of his life scientifically significant.
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#50It's important to keep in mind that near the end of his days, Tesla sure seemed to be experiencing some mental illness. He made wild claims that were never quite backed up by proof, claims that even now no one seems to believe were actually possible.
It's a sad end to a brilliant mind.
But then, when you're the FBI and WW2 is ongoing, you pay attention when a famous and brilliant inventor claims to have death rays and super weapons.