Quote from the closed topic (
Simon wrote):
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/teslas-radiant-energy-experiments/msg5599659/#msg5599659Tesla was a cheat, a liar and a charlatan. There is no real evidence that he invented anything. The one thing that poor old Westinghouse paid him for he took years to get to work after he sold Westinghouse the patents. Oddly someone else came up with an electric motor at the same time.... hm. Everything else was a scam.
Any wonderous thing you find on the internet with Tesla's name on it is also being pedaled by a cheat, a liar or a charlatan, just like the man himself.
The facts:
Simon, the lady in your linked video is debunking the cult of Tesla, and the urban legends about Tesla (she's ranting about
her misunderstandings, she says that at the end, with her own words as the conclusion of her video):
This text is the .srt subtitles downloaded from that YT video, only the end of the subtitles, her conclusion words:
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Conclusion.
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When I started to research
the history of electricity,
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I expected Tesla to be a major part of it.
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His devices are so
beautiful, and far and away,
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his name seems to be the
most closely connected
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to the word electricity.
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However, I found most of my knowledge
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came from a complete misunderstanding
of his life and ideas.
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Nonetheless, we shouldn't discount
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that Tesla was a wizard of electricity,
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and his devices are still,
over a hundred years later,
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things of beauty and wonder.
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Tesla's devices are a gateway drug
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for many electrical engineers,
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and that is not a small thing.
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♪ Electricity electricity ♪
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♪ Electricity electricity ♪
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Thanks for watching my video.
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See? She's praising Tesla. She was angry ranting because she fell for the urban legends. Then you fell for the emotional content of that video, didn't register the words, and extrapolated your emotional overload to a dead wrong conclusion: no evidence Tesla invented anything.
Tesla does have many patents (and by the way, she didn't say that there were no Tesla inventions). Look how long the list of Tesla patents is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patentsSaying Tesla didn't invent anything would make anybody look foolish. You can find those patents scanned as PDF from Google Patents. Do you really believe Tesla stolen all those patents? Don't fall for the emotional message only, double check.
And for the arguments that patents doesn't have to work, well, at least one works, my favorite one, the Tesla Turbine.
It's a brilliantly simple design, a turbine with no fins, made out of a flat disc. It is reversible, and can also be used as a pump:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/97/2c/df/6f9d46acc4fb80/US1061206.pdfVery easy to DIY:
How To Make The Ten Minute Tesla Turbine
Robert Murray-Smith(later edit, replaced the strikeout 10mins video with the following 5 mins video that has explanations of how it works, pros and cons):
How Fast Can a Tesla Turbine Spin?
The Action Lab
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DLKE_DbUdRg
Just to make my position clear, many of the today urban legends about Tesla are just that, legends. I don't endorse them. Whoever has had the curiosity to read anything written by Tesla, would notice Tesla was between genius and madness. No wonder there are misunderstandings.
But patents are patents. That's
physical evidence Tesla was an inventor.