The "wild" side of Tesla involves three stories.
If true, they put Tesla above Einstein and Edison in a class of his own.
Story Number One
Nikola Tesla in 1932 converted a Pierce Arrow from combustion to electric. With the car prepped to run electrically, Tesla visited a nearby hardware store and with items off the shelf, built a unit in his hotel room the night before the test that reportedly captured power from the aether and converted it to electricity. The gizmo sat next to Tesla on the passenger seat of the car. He inserted two rods into the unit and declared, "Now we have power". After running the car on this mysterious source of power for four hundred miles he said he could continue until the car wore out and fell apart. In other words, the power derived from the aether was limitless, and free. There is some conjecture that the power didn't come from the aether but instead from one of Tesla's magnifying transmitters delivering wireless power. That car and it's aether generator have disappeared. This story helps form the "Tesla Church", those who have formed an unswirving belief in everything Tesla. Update: the car has been found but no aether generator
Story Number Two
The Nikola Tesla Death Ray
In a nutshell, the Tunguska explosion was thought to be a meteor that exploded before it hit the ground. And yet, It's 7:17 AM on the morning of June 30, 1908, the exact moment when Nikola Tesla is testing his "Death Ray" by aiming his beam towards the Arctic Circle where he hopes Admiral Peary will see a visual display in the sky. In a small Siberian village, herders of Reindeer are awakened by a huge ball of light, followed by an enormous explosion. Seismic vibrations were recorded by sensitive instruments as much as 1000 km (600 mi) away. At 500 km (300 mi), observers reported "deafening bangs" and a fiery cloud on the horizon.....
Story Number Three - The Tesla Flying Machine
The Tesla flying machine was called the Telautomaton. No propellor, no jet, not saucer shaped, more like a torpedo. Other: http://www.svpvril.com
These three Tesla stories are what fascinate people interested in Tesla today. They may be myths only because the man never got funding. Based on his previous notoriety it's easy to wonder why he never got the opportunity to carry on. You would think his reputation for lighting the world would have carried over to allow what was regarded as fantasies and decisions of a man who had proved his worth. The world will never know nor benefit if there were a hidden truth to Tesla's wild side. Wireless power for everyone, antigravity machines and a powerful death ray. Three Tesla inventions that never got done due to lack of confidence and finance and an attitude that Tesla was now a mad scientist, depicted as such in cartoons of the time.
Why was Tesla never given his due? They say, when Tesla died penniless in a hotel with unpaid bills, his scientific papers were seized. Nikola Tesla's death in 1943 meant that all of his work would now go underground. And his name would be expunged from history. But not completely.
What remains of the man is the fact that we have power. Also the Tesla coil. Radio, fluorescent lighting, brushless turbines and a host of other new ideas. Many today use the term tesla coil and don't know that the name is its inventor. The power of a magnet is measured in 'teslas'. This man of the century has for the most part been written out of science and education today.
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Nikola Tesla
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century, Man Out of Time
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