God said let there be Tesla, and Tesla said Let there be light,

I had come to Belgrade to see the Niklo Tesla Museum. He was a Serbian American inventor about 100 years before his time. Wifi, Wireless electricity, X-ray, remote control, the radio, the ray gun, the electric motor, bladeless fan, all dreamed by him. And he really did just dream them up. Whats left of his papers, the majority are in the museam, are almost incomprehensible. Tesla said the ideas came to him almost fully formed, building his inventions in his mind before he ever put pen to paper. Like Mozart the masterpieces were often complete, before either wrote them down for others. He was a Genius, What a monumental Genius.

The museum was triumphant, as was the tour, I paid 300 Serbians, that's about 2 pounds for a run through of his life and achievements. They are numerous and miraculous, he is a pillar of the modern age. Its a travesty he isn't better known or that he never one a noble prize. He wasn't a publisist, though, but a scientist. He had a vision of free electricity, by creating standing waves of electromagnetic force in the earth's ionosphere, or in the earths soil.
His business partner was  J.P Morgan, the founder of the emponomusly named banks. He saw money in everything but value in nothing. The partnership was a disaster like the C.I.A merging with Amnesty International. Morgan was hard nosed, Tesla, naeive to the extreme. As Morgan realised the scope of Teslas plan he withdrew his backing commeting "If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?"

Tesla pantented a ray gun now called a rail gun, using charged particles, a pacifist for life, he thought that arming the world would create world peace. Uncommon genius missing common sense. When he died the U.S Military took these papers, some still haven't been released.

I really cant sing his achievements enough and the superb job the museum had done at presenting them. He is one of the 20th centuries most fascinating characters. In 1888, he demonstrated a radio controlled ship in New York, Horse and carragie was still the primary form of transport, sail still played a roll on the seas, and here was a man, demonstraing a radio controlled electric powered boat. The top scientist of day couldn't understand what they had seen, they couldn't even gather understand the concept. Some even suggested that he might be moving it by the "force of his mind".

At Colorado springs he famously lit 200 light bulbs wirelessly 40 km away from his power station. Noone really knows what he was doing. He was a magician, a master electirican, a conjouer of the electromagnetic force.  If science had a bible, it would start with this.

God said let there be Tesla, and Tesla said let there be light.