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Message: [QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2415978, member: 6819"] Well, partially true. Tesla's design was for AC electricity to be transmitted wirelessly, and his transmission tower was funded by Carnegie. Tesla proved that his would easily work. However, Tesla didn't really tell Carnegie of his plan, and that his funding was for worldwide wireless transmission, which would basically be free electricity for all. Once Carnegie got wind of the truth he pulled his funding and that was that. Tesla by the way invented what he called a death ray during WW2. The government for a while considered this ray which Tesla proved in theory would work. However, again, when they found his plan included giving the secret of it to every nation by which ending all wars, the government cracked down on that idea, and went with Einstein's idea instead. Perhaps someone on the BY with more knowledge of this will chime in here. As for Tesla and his being demented, Tesla believed that his inspirations came to him not on his own. He insisted that while in a trance, aliens were contacting him giving him [B]full fledged plans and diagrams[/B]. All in one fell swoop, which he then upon awakening merely wrote down. This is similar to the great (perhaps greatest) mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who said the goddess Kuladevata recited these groundbreaking theorems to him whole hog while he too was in a trance. Which he upon awakening wrote down. No one ever called him demented. Einstein said his theories came to him while he was in a pseudo trance which he called "thought experiments". All of this around the same time. [/QUOTE]

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