Was Nikola Tesla a fraud?

Question

Overblown?
Suppressed?
A victim of legend?

Answer 1

Hideously suppressed.

Some of his works, the documentation, is STILL classified as top Secret.

They don't do that for crackpots.

Answer 2

suppressed definitely. He was only given credit for inventing radio in the past few years. (Edison was the 1st to place a patent on the radio but Tesla made it 1st.) You can't build some of his inventions without a big smack-down from the government. He invented the remote control years before the television was made. Certain scientific experiments require his invention the Tesla coil and yet you rarely if ever hear about him in school. (I didn't hear about all he did until about 2 years after high school.) Yeah. I got to go with suppressed.

Answer 3

No, Tesla was not a fraud. In fact, most of the electric power technology we use today (alternating current technology) was invented by Tesla. Tesla's main rival, Thomas Edison, got his name on most of the power companies, because Edison was first with electric power and lighting, but Edison's direct current systems were made obsolete by Tesla's AC generators, motors, transformers and power transmission systems. You can find Tesla's patents by going to the US patent office website, www.uspto.gov, and searching for Tesla's name as an inventor.

Answer 4

Tesla was the epitome of the mad genius. His inventions form the basis of our electrical power system.

Tesla worked on a large number of speculative projects which were never satisfactorily demonstrated, including energy beam weapons and some technology for extracting energy from the atmosphere (or free space?) Both the US and Soviet governments, as well as Westinghouse, are suspected of having hidden away some of Tesla's papers.

Because of his research into uncharted territory, and the whiff of conspiracy surrounding the alleged misiing papers,Tesla is popular with many people on the fringes of science. Although you can now find some of his works for sale alongside purple energy angels and other nonsense, Tesla himself, though he was not always right, was the real deal.

Answer 5

Definately not overblown, definately suppressed.

He had much more of a true understanding of the nature and operations of electricity then did Edison.

Hell, he was the champion of AC power. However, he was pretty much a social invalid. Because he was not a 'pretty boy; in the public and social mind, everyone thought he was just a mad scientist and believed everything Edison preached (DC power).

It's kinda wierd how without really giving him credit we have adopted more of his ideas than any other inventor/scientist.

Answer 6

Nope. He was neither a fraud nor was he suppressed, but he got much less public acclaim than he deserved and he didn't profit as much as he deserved from his inventions because he was ripped off by crooks on several occasions in his career. The alternating current electric power supply grid, used everywhere in the world, is possibly the greatest engineering achievement in the last 100 years, and it is mostly his invention.

Answer 7

Nikola Tesla is credited "with the invention of the induction motor, long-distance electrical power distribution, fluorescent and neon lights, the first true radio tube and remote control, besides making vital contributions to the technology underlying television, wireless communication, robotics, lasers, the facsimile machine and particle-beam weaponry anticipating the space-based "Star Wars" defensive shield."

He was not so much a scientist as an inventor and a technologist. He is sometimes discredited because of his eccentric personality which led to severe neurosis in later life.

His personality does not, however, gainsay his incredible genius.

Answer 8

three words ONE POINT POWER. the man invented it, and it is still classified on how it works, we all use two point power, positive and negative, he found a way to drag an antenna on the ground for one point power. oh and By the way, Edison was a fraud, he did not invent anything himself like Tesla did, Edison had a "team" that invented for him, he was the Bill Gates of his time, A Very good businessman, but not what everyone claims he is.

Answer 9

He was mostly a fraud. He didn't invent or discover AC or Radio. (In fact he didn't believe radio was possible.) He did build a working AC motor for Westinghouse but others developed radio, transformers, generators and more. He never used science in his work and everything he did develop was based on other people research, dumb luck and the depth of the pockets of the rich men funding his tinkering.

Answer 10

Definitely a genius, but not very pratical so Edison beat him out with practical ideas. Tesla's inventions could do much to help us achieve energy self-sufficiency.

Answer 11

Suppressed, look up all that he has done with electricity. He built the first generators, and designed the ones in the Hoover dam. He also, arguably, invented radio.