The 10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World

avi said:
that comic is quite overrated. Tesla wasn't a God and Edision wasn't a devil, as it portrays. Sure Tesla was a genius, no denying that.
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May be overrated. But it made me read about him and google 'tesla' for more.
They might have exaggerated at few places. :)
 
Tesla was vehemently hated by those whose nice businesses he could have easily ruined. He researched in diverse fields and it also had a potentially immense practical value. Most of his research was confiscated by the govt. Its said that some of his research was destroyed by Tesla himself because of its potential to be weaponized if it falls into govt. hands.

Its believed that if his research ever fully came out into the open, we would not be paying for fuel or electricity and our society would be much more advanced technologically than it is.

Tesla may not be a God nor Edison a devil, but Tesla was surely a Geek as surely as Edison was a businessman.
 
May I introduce one more geek of yester years whose work was so ahead of its time that a good part of it is a mystery to this day. His contributions in certain areas were barely understood, largely underestimated and the saddest of all, his name is barely known in his very own country, one that is known to take pride in the fact that it takes immense pride in every odd thing that people even remotely related to it have ever achieved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose

The inventor of "Wireless Telecommunications", Bose was not interested in patenting his invention. In his Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, London, he made public his construction of the coherer. Thus The Electric Engineer expressed "surprise that no secret was at any time made as to its construction, so that it has been open to all the world to adopt it for practical and possibly moneymaking purposes."[8] Bose declined an offer from a wireless apparatus manufacturer for signing a remunerative agreement. Bose also recorded his attitude towards patents in his inaugural lecture at the foundation of the Bose Institute on 30 November 1917.
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Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that "J.C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time. In fact, he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors."[20]
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Yes, he was a pioneer of wireless communications, but refused to be profited from it. His research in plant life, perception and bio physics is so barely understood to this day that it is dismissed by scientists (as is usually the case).

Indian scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, from Bengal, began to conduct experiments on plants in the year 1900. He found that every plant and every part of a plant appeared to have a sensitive nervous system and responded to shock by a spasm just as an animal muscle does. In addition Bose found that plants grew more quickly amidst pleasant music and more slowly amidst loud noise or harsh sounds. He also claimed that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc.," from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants under different circumstances. According to him, a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture.

One visitor to his laboratory, the vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had "convulsions" as it boiled to death.[4] Bose found that the effect of manures, drugs, and poisons could be determined within minutes, providing plant control with a new precision. He repeated his tests on metals, administering poisons to tin, zinc, and platinum, and obtained astonishing responses which, when plotted on a graph, appeared precisely like those of poisoned animals. In conclusion he said: "Do not these records tell us of some property of matter common and persistent? That there is no abrupt break, but a uniform and continuous march of law?"
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pradeep200417 said:
It was like. When Steve Jobs died whole world made a big deal, but when Dennis Ritchie (creator of C and Unix ) died the same year, no one mentioned. :(
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You know John McCarthy also died around same time. And he was no less genius than Ritchie (he created LISP family, kinda father of AI and he even termed it fyi). So I guess, did you mention him? I am pretty sure, you did not. Have you thought why?
 
stop it you guys, simply...

India is filled with sensitive idiots. Say something against someone they hardly follow, riots happen overnight.

here is why NOT her:
 
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