In POPOLOGICAL basements, garages, office towers and mini-malls everywhere,
unsung geniuses are toiling away on their latest, greatest inventions. Despite the obstacles they often face, these brilliant inventors remain passionate and unwavering in their ground-breaking pursuit to change the world. Tesla’s Children tells the story of five renegade inventors and their amazing inventions – one using moonlight to cure disease, and another using diamonds to power electronics! These mavericks are not only changing the existing scientific paradigm – they’re overturning it.
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Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first-ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Towerproject, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.[9]
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943.[10] Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor.[11] There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
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