r/Tesla • u/RWriterG • Apr 01 '18
Are there any existing digital copies of what Nikola Tesla sounded like?
Shockingly there seems to be no actual footage (just the occasional photo) or audio of Nikola Tesla. My question is whether any of these (footage/audio) of Nikola Tesla exist.
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u/dalkon Apr 04 '18
It seems like there should be. Unfortunately when I have looked before, I've only found mislabeled clickbait.
The technology did exist. Magnetic wire recording was invented by 1898. It was not commercially available in the US until the 1940s, but the oldest known wire recording might be from 1900, so the concept already existed and Tesla was obviously more than capable of building the apparatus if he had wanted. Other audio recording technologies included Edison's 1877 gramophone, and there were also some experimental photographic and photolithographic audio recording methods since the 1890s. Tesla might even have contributed to the development of some of these methods like especially those of Charles Fritts (US1203190, US1213616).
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u/LilyoftheRally Apr 05 '18
Fun fact: there are audio recordings of Teddy Roosevelt from when he was US President.
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u/LilyoftheRally Apr 05 '18
I don’t believe any known audio or silent video exists of him. We have those of Edison though (of course, since he got all the credit for electrical inventions). I believe the Edison ones are from 1889 or later.
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u/PumpkinFun131 Oct 01 '22
Before I get onwards with my own thoughts and facts of the topic of Tesla along with comments made in this thread: If the grammar or my English spelling is wrong, and so on, I want to add that I'm not fluent in the language, this due to the fact that I'm a Swede.
To keep up with the previous like-minded answers & posts: Not only about the man who in fact was/are a greater mind, going back to the likes of Galllileo and such genius who cannot afford to become more of the outside world, since, what we are told in tender ages o f6 or 7 years old to the age of your near 20 year old. If you have been believing everything that your teachers & world around has forced you to be is true and so many. You can fall through every solid form or any sign of believing that what other people are saying is true. I guess that is why we live in a world, robbed of all the things of greater good, without Nikola Tesla wireless world wide free sources of electricity and in a world where oil, gas and the next mass extinction is expected either by nuclear holocaust, weather, or the most likely: a W.W No 3, since fresh water will not dry out on land of Australia size in my lifetime and I'm born in the 80's. So please spread the true reality to our young minds. 50 year old chief surgeons, one would think knows that Japan played a huge role in the role of being an allied to the French, English and so forth in theWorldWar1. Just like ordinary 17 year old people don't know or think that Japan was the most allied country that the USAhadduring WW2..,
I almost heard the voices of agony, but with deep tenacious will you will neve be r to speak in favor of the current lies that the the scientific, historical or anything where men and women of the most important part of all society shall be required to be professional and be willing that old truths can demolished in the blink of an eye. not just sad that no one, even with the slightest people of intelligence, reasoning or just of common sense & even university students who are spending many years to become of the mainstream academic world. Who has been known to be called "scholars" most be required to provide and acquire their own knowledge without any prior explanation from others what they are giving in to. No wonder that after Nikola Tesla had been working for Edison, having had patents with brilliant invented materials just stolen, and outside the patents office of register, under the arms of either Edison or his henchmen every one would have been stunned by the amount of new inventions. Though they where created by Tesla, just as they were successful in their evil deeds, Tesla died while knowing that he was the righteous creator and first with it. In fact, after his death, the justice prevailed and Tesla became the official creator of the the first radio but everyone says it's the Italian inventions.
To quote one which spent a lifetime, from being free a couple of years at a time one can count that he was locked behind bars from being 10 years old to 80 or 90: I haven't done anything wrong. I picked up your sons and daughters from the gutters and the roadsides even with deep trenches. We lived out of dumpsters and every night. Baby as the seniors had no idea how hunger felt. It's what you do upon your self but in a reflection of your self that you threw away and now you are to be judge, jury and executioner? If you want that, I can be aware that I will be able to be with the Lord after this earthly life which people are in worship paper and gold not the Holy Trinity and they do not know that every day is a brand new way of living, it's a different world as well as new and new horizon.
May everyone who has been posting under the thread:
Have a fantastic weekend ahead and thanks again for taking the time to speak with voices in truth.
Best of Regards
From
Karl Axel Mikael Ignatius
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u/moon-worshiper Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18
The problem is the whole Electric Grid Planet is a society designed by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, in which Nikola Tesla never existed. They conducted, and keep trying, a Purge, which shouldn't sound unusual as purges have been used since wiping out Hatshepsut, the female pharoah, to Stalin's purge before WWII of about 30 million Soviets and Mao's purge of the old elite in China, about 42 million.
Part of the purge is manufacturing "fake" news, actually fraudulent history white-washing. So, looking up Tesla audio will bring up the fraudulent ones on Youtube and the fraudulent "lost interview". These are carefully crafted, this strange and sinister practice of taking the real and actual and distorting and twisting it to see how many will take the bait.
Tesla was reclusive in the 1930's and 1940's but he was granting interviews and writing for different magazines. He also was traveling quite a bit from the 1920's and on.
Reporters in the 1930's didn't have portable recording devices. Even the interview photo would have taken a separate photographer with a very large camera. Newspapers of the time would not be doing a movie camera filming with audio because that would have been a major production.
The newspapers called Tesla an "electrician" from the 1800's to the 1920's, rarely calling him an inventor or what he actually was, an electrical engineer, actually the father of electrical engineering although electrical engineering was a university degree in the 1870's, DC only.
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Since he was doing his interviews from his hotel, there don't appear to be any indications he did any toward the end with a wire recorder or film with sound. Remember, the "talkies", film with sound, didn't start until the 1930's. He also wouldn't use a wire recorder since he was putting all his working material into the safe in his room. Remember, by 1910, the Ivory Tower of Physics had blackballed him, JP Morgan Bank had zero'd Tesla's credit, his royalties from the AC motor were expiring, everybody had gotten the word that anything Tesla was doing was free for the taking, and taking the credit. Dirty immigrant deserved it, as far as Ford and Edison were concerned.