The tale of how the horse tram replaced the horseless show jumping

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 19:46

Good day, dear users! I suggest you have a little fun contemplating the hopelessly outdated horseless and wireless (power transmission) horse tram, and the horse tram that replaced it as a result of evolution, as a result of evolution.

It was a very harmful tram.. Like Ivan the Fool’s stove.. You don’t understand how, neither you horses, nor wires through which electricity is supplied.. It insults the scientific approach, you know, it does not correspond to sound logic.. "So it turns out, we are all the same fools as this mythical Ivan? " - progressive people asked such a question … Society could no longer endure such a mockery of a proud person. Therefore, it was decided to ban free, wireless electricity, and besides, people became spoiled, you know..

(Illumination in St. Petersburg 1750)

In the absence of constant worries about food and heating, they began to think freely, devote the freed up time to gaining knowledge, all smart became - do not say a word, they are ten in response … Disgrace, in general … and it was then decided to deprive people of this good (free electricity), BUT, having previously seized all the hydrocarbons in their own hands so that people can sell them at exorbitant prices. Let them work in the sweat of their brow, for their three kopecks, so that they have enough to barely pay for their existence! It remained to call it progress, and … oil painting!

And here, as it seems to me, it will not be superfluous to recall the great Nikola Tesla … Therefore, I propose to recall the life, work and death of the great Slavic scientist and inventor.

Recently, one question has been creeping up on me - did the (certainly great) Nikola Tesla invented the wireless transmission of electricity? It is quite possible that the scientist simply restored the forbidden, lost technologies, continuing to develop what was taken from us in the mid-to-late 19th century.

Well, in 1893, Nikola Tesla designed the world's first wave radio transmitter, thereby being seven years ahead of Marconi (Tesla's primacy in the invention of radio was proved and recognized in 1943 by the US Supreme Court). Using radio control, Tesla created "teleautomatics" - self-propelled mechanisms controlled from a distance.

At Madison Square Garden, a scientist showed small remote-controlled boats. And in 1895, the Niagara hydroelectric power station (the largest in the world) was put into operation, and it worked with the help of Tesla generators. It was a triumph!

However, not everyone shared Tesla's creative and commercial successes. On March 13, 1895, Tesla's Fifth Avenue lab burned to the ground. The fire consumed not only the previous, but also the most recent developments of Tesla, including a new method of transmitting messages over long distances without wires, a mechanical oscillator and many others. It was rumored that the fire was the work of ill-wishers, thus hinting at Thomas Edison.

A grandiose plan has ripened in the scientist's head - to build a station for wireless transmission of information and energy at a distance, and to any point on the Earth. To accomplish this task, Tesla bought a piece of land on Long Island with an area of 0.8 km2. The scientist ordered the project of a 47-meter-high wooden frame tower to the architect V. Grow with a copper ball at the top. In 1902, construction, accompanied by great difficulties, was completed, and the tower was named "Wardencliff".

However, then new problems began. The industrialist John Pierpont Morgan, who financed Tesla's venture, refused to give money to the scientist after the true goals of the Serb became clear. Morgan did not want to pay for research into the uncontrolled transfer of energy around the planet - he seriously feared that Tesla's invention would deprive him of his sources of profit. I did not find Tesla's understanding among other industrialists.

"Do you want to let me go around the world?" - the fat Jew was indignant at splashing saliva … From this disagreement, Nikola Tesla's fall as a successful entrepreneur began, and his ascent as a brilliant scientist-inventor, a martyr for his faith. He took most of the discoveries with him - high morality did not allow monetizing the most important inventions. The monkey is not given a grenade - humanity is not ready for what he received in revelations from above.

The construction of the tower was not the most important thing. The scientist needed to complete the work of the transfer station entirely, and there was simply no money. In a letter dated January 14, 1904, the scientist writes to Morgan: "It has been 14 months since work at my station was suspended. In just three months, a team of workers could have completed construction, and the station would have brought in $ 10,000 a day." In the following years, Tesla struggled with varying success for his project, trying to find money and save equipment and land from creditors. In this "mothballed" state, the Wardencliff tower stood until 1917, when it was blown up.

Moving away from the squabbles around the Wardencliff Tower, Tesla turns his talent to new inventions. These included a frequency counter, an electric meter, advanced steam turbines, and electrotherapy devices. In one of the letters from that time, the scientist mentioned that he was working on a "car, locomotive and lathe" project. Indeed, Tesla's genius strove to cover as many spheres of human life as possible. The scientist also worked on a revolutionary aircraft that could hover over water.

Tesla's financial affairs were going very well in 1909-1910, and all thanks to orders for his inventions. But secretly from everyone, the scientist hoped that the money he received would one day be able to use it to restore the project of a worldwide transmission station, the insane symbol of which was the Wardencliff Tower. Alas, these dreams of Tesla were not destined to come true …

Relying on genes, Tesla intended to live for more than 100 years, like his individual, strong relatives. Most likely, he would be able to reach the target, despite even his strange diet (warm milk, bread, some vegetables), drunken work at night and other oddities (for example, Tesla liked to conduct electricity through himself). Unfortunately, being hit by a car and breaking his ribs, Tesla further undermined his health.

The death of the scientist was preceded by an unusual event. Tesla's love for pigeons is well known. These birds gave the scientist strength. But one night "… my beloved dove flew into the open window and sat on the table. Looking at her, I realized what had happened: she was dying. And when I realized this, light poured from her eyes - powerful rays of light. When the dove died, something died in me too. I knew that my life's work was over. " So Tesla wrote in his diary shortly before his death.

After the death of the scientist on the night of January 7-8, 1943, all his papers were taken by FBI agents. Having carefully studied Tesla's legacy, the FBI said that the great scientist left nothing that could be of practical use.

Nikola Tesla himself was born in the village of Smiliany on July 10, 1856 in the family of the Serbian Orthodox priest Milutin Tesla. Today Smilians are located on the territory of Croatia, and at that time this place was located in imperial Austria-Hungary.

In 1862, Nikola's father was promoted to dignity, and Tesla's family moved to the city of Gospich, located six kilometers from Smilyan. In the new place, Nikola graduated from elementary school and a three-year lower real gymnasium. In the fall of 1870, he entered the Higher Real School, located in the city of Karlovac.

A curious episode belongs to the first period of Nikola Tesla's life in Gospic, which probably determined Nikola's craving for electricity. They say that at the age of ten, the future scientist stroked a fluffy black cat, sitting on the porch of the house. Nicola noticed that sparks slipped between his fingers and the cat's fur, clearly visible in the evening.

The boy asked his father, who was nearby, about the nature of these sparks. Tesla Sr. replied that sparks are most likely "relatives" of lightning. Father's answer forever sunk into the soul of an impressionable boy, clearly showing him that electricity (which Nicola did not yet know anything about) can be both "tame" like a pet, and "wild" like a thunderstorm.

In 1873, an event occurs that finally turned the whole life of Nikola Tesla. Having received a certificate of maturity in July 1873, Nikola decides to return to his parents. A cholera epidemic was raging in Gospic, and Nikola fell ill. By this time, the young man was quite ripe for making a responsible decision: to follow not in his father's footsteps, but to learn to be an engineer.

In Karlovac, Nikola did a lot of mathematics and physics. He was especially impressed by Professor Martin Sekulich, who taught physics. This professor showed in action his own invention - a tin-foil-covered light bulb that rotated rapidly when connected to a static machine. "It is impossible to convey the feeling that I experienced looking at the demonstration of this amazing phenomenon. Each show echoed in my mind," the great Serb later recalled.

It was Nikola's unwillingness to become a priest that caused a rather serious dispute between father and son. Some sources even associate Nikola's illness with Milutin's sharp rejection of the son's decision, supposedly, Nikola was so impressed that he fell ill with great chagrin … would his life have been?