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Teleforce was mentioned publicly in the New York Sun and The New York Times on July 11, 1934. [9] [10] The press called it a "peace ray" or death ray.[11] [12] The idea of a "death ray" was a misunderstanding in regard to Tesla's term when he referred to his invention as a "death beam" so Tesla went on to explain that "this invention of mine does not contemplate the use of any so-called 'death ...
Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a "death beam" which he called teleforce in the 1930s and continued the claims up until his death. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Tesla explained that "this invention of mine does not contemplate the use of any so-called 'death rays'.
Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum to honor him. [7]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.
Cheney, Margaret, Tesla: man out of time, ISBN 0-7432-1536-2; The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla by Jim Glenn, 1994. The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 978-1-566-19266-8) is a book compiled and edited by Jim Glenn detailing the patents of Nikola Tesla.
When you think of a vending machine, things like snacks, sodas or even pharmaceutical supplies could come to mind. But you might be surprised to know that the first ever vending machine actually ...
A particle-beam weapon uses a high-energy beam of atomic or subatomic particles to damage the target by disrupting its atomic and/or molecular structure. A particle-beam weapon is a type of space-based directed-energy weapon, which directs focused energy toward a target using atomic scale particles.
The Teleforce was never created, to my knowledge, because by the time he came out with the theory Tesla was widely considered the research-equivalent of a medical quack. He had a sort of vendetta against Edison earlier in his life, which was heartily reciprocated, and I believe each man spent a significant portion of his funds trying to ...
Tesla's autobiography was first published as a six-part 1919 series in the Electrical Experimenter magazine, in the February – June, and October issues. The series was republished as Moji Pronalasci – My Inventions, Školska Knjiga, Zagreb, 1977, on the occasion of Tesla's 120th anniversary, with side-by-side English and Serbo-Croatian translations by Tomo Bosanac and Vanja Aljinović ...