The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission may be kept up for a while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable ...aberrations of the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history. -Nikola Tesla, “The True Wireless,” 1919. The man who continues to resist after his whole profession has been converted has ipso facto ceased to be a scientist. -Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962.
Tesla Carlson, W. Bernard
2013., 20130507, 2013, 2013-06-30
eBook
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of ...modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft.
Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion.
This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.
Overcoming the Innovator's Paradox Dyer, Jeff; Furr, Nathan; Hendron, Mike
MIT Sloan management review,
07/2020, Letnik:
61, Številka:
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Journal Article
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Although many people say they like radical ideas, the greater the risk and uncertainty, the more skittish potential supporters become. Fortunately, there are strategies for breaking through. Having a ...great idea is essential to innovation, but that's only half of what is needed. Securing the resources to implement the idea is just as important and potentially more difficult. The inventor Nikola Tesla, for example, came up with several transformative ideas -- for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, and remote control -- but he died penniless because he couldn't line up the resources to commercialize them. In contrast, Thomas Edison, arguably less brilliant, died wealthy and famous because he was good at both coming up with ideas and winning the necessary support to turn them into reality.
Today, it represents electrical energy, one of the most important pillars of energy. The very history of the development of electric power begins around 600 BC with the writings of Thales of Miletus ...from ancient Greece, who unknowingly discovered the phenomenon of static electricity at that time. In the 19th century the first hydroelectric power plants and water power plants appeared (USA).
This article examines the historical moment surrounding Nikola Tesla's invention of a radio-controlled submarine boat in 1897. Before this moment, in the early 1890s, Tesla's rich theoretical ...understanding of electricity and novel experiments with high-frequency currents and oscillators, later named "Tesla coils," informed his lectures to scientists and engineers at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Royal Society, the French Society of Physicists and the Franklin Institute. A few years later, Tesla began to engage with philosophical debates related to automaton theory and he failed to accurately communicate his ideas and the practicality of his inventions. These actions splintered the consensus about Tesla's scientific credentials.
This article presents research on the usefulness of three different electric circuit simulation environments for exploring energy harvesting from electromagnetic waves using energy harvesters. The ...software that is compared includes KiCad EDA, LT Spice and MATLAB Simscape Electrical.Too prepare a common background for the results comparison, crucial equations that combine RF transmission with energy are presented. Commercially available harvesters are also presented. An overview of the state-of-the-art research on this topic is summarised. In order to verify software using conditions that are similar to real ones, the power available at the 868 MHZ ISM band, which is close to the LTE bands used for telecommunications, is calculated. The results obtained using different software are close to being identical for all tested simulation environments.
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