Comments on: What do electricity and political power have in common?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:57:00 +0000

And don’t forget to do a google search for “Topsy The Elephant”… That was one of the biggest spectacles Edison used to try and frighten the people on the dangers of AC current. You can even find the old grainy footage/film of it happening on YouTube.

By the way, thanks for the great link!

By: James LaBarre

James LaBarre — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:40:00 +0000

You need to read the comic at http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Actually I’ve been doing little else than studying Dr. Tesla’s work for almost two years now. If you actually read his lectures, papers, and patents in the context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries you will find that, aside from the Tesla/Edison “War of the Currents”, most of what you stated above is untrue.

But you have to study Dr. Tesla’s work, not what other people say about his work. For example, he never had any intention to provide power to the world for free. Although he did have a way to transmit power globally without wires, he also had a way to individualize the transmission by using a mix of frequencies so that only receivers working on the correct combination of frequencies and timing would be able to access the power. He would never have been able to raise the money he needed to build the multi-million dollar transmitters without being able to bill for it. If someone didn’t pay their bill he could just stop transmission with that receiver’s parameters. You won’t find in any of his writings where he said he intended to supply power for free.

Dr. Tesla stated that J. P. Morgan lived up to alll of his obligations under the contract they had. He had no beef with Morgan. Morgan was interested in wireless communications and he got hoodwinked into supporting Marconi’s work since Marconi accomplished intercontinetal wireless communication before Dr. Tesla did. That company later became RCA.

What came out later in the 1940′s, after Dr. Tesla died, was that Marconi’s transmitter used several devices that Dr. Tesla had already patented. That was decided in a patent suit and, therefore, made Dr. Tesla the inventor of radio, not Marconi.

Sounds like you’ve been reading Gerry Vassilatos’ (sp?) work. Although a good read, there are things stated in that work that he could not possibly know without having been present at Dr. Tesla’s experiments. Vassilatos took some artistic liberties in his writing and stated some speculations as fact.

By: david Scott

david Scott — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:52:00 +0000

Finally someone else is seeing what I see. The corruption that Edison Started has remained in his company for all these years and they are using the same secret combinations to control our government. You might want to look up more on Tesla and his funding from JP Morgan and how JP Morgan took away all funding when he found out that Tesla was working on providing free wireless power to everyone. It might blow your mind to find out that Einstein and Tesla disagreed on the way that power could be harvested from the atom and the Government used Einstein’s Ideas because it could be used to make the atom bomb, a weapon that could be used against a foreign country. whereas Tesla Believed that there was even more power to be had in the atom, but it wouldn’t be able to produce an explosion, only unlimited free power for all. You can’t be rich and powerful unless you have control of something that the masses want or need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:50:00 +0000

absolute power corrupts absolutely
oh how i wish we could get rid of politics…it ruins everything..it ruins schools,churches,and our
country all together!!

By: greywolfrs

greywolfrs — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:59:00 +0000

Sorry, but do any of you really think left wing dolts, that voted for Obamao, will understand this analogy? They can’t see past the nose of their face, you are speaking WAY above them. They will not even understand the point of playing on their feelings, which is exactly what the left does. Does anyone really think Obamao, Piglosi or Harry Balls gives two s***s about those kids that were killed? They don’t, they simply use things like that to get left wing dolts to go along with their agenda.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:03:00 +0000

Edison’s company later became General Electric – GE. And Jeffrey Immelt, who is GE’s present CEO, was appointed to That Man’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board while GE reportedly paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010. Fair Share?

Birds of a feather I guess. I’m sure they understand each other very well.

By: Sam Fisher

Sam Fisher — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:54:00 +0000

The more things that change the more things stay the same. This
battle sounds like most of the battles in Washington D.C.

By: snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

snowleopard (cat folk gallery) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Politics in and of itself is about the gaining, usage of and maintaining of control and power over the system and of the people.

That in a nutshell is what the battle between Edison and Tesla was about, and what we are having happen in DC and across the nation to this day. Obama is as ruthless as anything and will, along with Reid, do anything he must to keep his position and power to continue his insane transformation of the nation.

By: snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

snowleopard (cat folk gallery) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Indeed, same mess, same players, just different packaging on the outside.