The Greatest Lecture in Scientific History In 1892, Nikola T | Michael Jaco • Mike Jaco
The Greatest Lecture in Scientific History
In 1892, Nikola Tesla gave a lecture before the Royal Institution in London, and left an audience completely spelled bound as he introduced an new theory of light. The spectators literally thought he was doing the devil's work and ran out the building. The young inventor showcased some of the most striking experiments in scientific history! One experiment consisted in joining two sheets of tinfoil, several feet from his body, the other on the table to poles of his generator. The space between the sheets instantly became electrified, and he waved long vacuum-tubes around, without an attachment to any counductor whatever, and the tubes continued to glow in the darkness. He was basically the first Jedi showcasing the first lightsaber. This experiment was intended to illustrate the possibility of electrifying a room, by plates in the ceiling or under the floor, and lighting vacuum tubes placed anywhere within a building providing wireless light.
In another experiment, Tesla showed how his system of alternating current was harmless. He passed a quarter of a million volts of electricity through his own body and felt nothing. Completely freaking the audience out, he held a vacuum tube in one hand, and touched his terminal with the other, which according to the understanding of electricity in that time, should have killed him. Tesla grabbed onto the terminal and made himself a conduit of electricity, and illuminated his vacuum tube. He also held flames of electricity and shot bolts of electricity out of his fingertips. This experiment showed that the greater the pace of the electricity, the less it effects the human organism.
Although not recognized for in our present history, this lecture was one of the most important events in scientific history. It proved that the wireless transmission of energy is possible, and that the world today is still far behind in the technology Tesla introduced.
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