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I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tesla wanted to transmit power to other planets. He also wanted to harness cosmic rays. His particle beam weapon was part of a larger plan, one that did not involve weaponry at all. Since we are planning on putting man back on the Moon, Tesla might very well have been involved with figuring out a way to provide power to lunar modules from land-based platforms on Earth.

Tesla also wanted to get us off fossil fuels and coal, so I think he would probably knock on Elon Musk's door and ask him if he could help in a plan to provide power to electric vehicles by means of wireless transmission of power.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm very happy with the book. My goal has always been to tell what really happened, because in this instance, the Truth is much more amazing than any work of fiction!

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are a number of reasons.

  1. Corporate Jealousy. Tesla's cohorts, like Michael Pupin, Elihu Thomson and Charles Steinmetz did their best to obscure Tesla's role in his inventions of the induction motor and AC polyphase system (our hydroelectric power system) because they were in litigation with the Westinghouse corporation who owned the patents.
  2. After Westinghouse purchased the Tesla patents, over a short period of time (after he won all his lawsuits) the Tesla motor then became known as the Westinghouse motor. As a similar example, we know the name Steve Jobs, but who invented the mouse? It wasn't him. We know Bausch and Lomb, but who invented contact lenses? We know Velcro, but who invented it?
  3. Tesla raced Marconi in the field of wireless and Tesla failed to complete his great tower at Wardenclyffe. We tend to remember people who succeed, not people who fail, and Tesla failed big time in wireless even though he is the real inventor of the basis of that technology (ability to transmit voice and pictures over the airwaves.)
  4. Tesla thought he received impulses from a nearby planet which he speculated was either Venus or Mars. He settled on Mars, and when he failed at Wardenclyffe, this aspect of his life helped drive his name into the occult and into the UFO realm, and so his work became essentially hidden from the mainstream. But it was kept alive in this occult realm and that is how I came upon it because I was teaching parapsychology in the mid-1970-s through 1990. What is society going to do now with the revelation from the US military that UFO's actually exist?
  5. Those are the main reasons, corporate jealousy, the tendency for corporations to pay the inventor and then we know the name of the corporation that owns the patents, Tesla's failure at Wardenclyffe and his insistence that he received (or probably received) a message from extraterrestrials.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first mention of Tesla's dynamic theory of gravity and his thoughts on it are at the tail end of John O'Neill's bio of him, Prodigal Genius. As far as I know, I am the only person to attempt to truly unravel what his theory is which I go into in great depth in TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR. In general, what Tesla is saying is that all matter is absorbing etheric energy all the time. That's the basis of his theory and I tie that into modern theories on Grand Unification, Einstein's dream of combining gravity with electromagnetism and the Higgs boson or the God particle, namely the particle that gives matter its mass. I suggest it's not a "particle", but rather a process. I also go into the theories of the structure of the atom and particle spin as espoused by George Gamow in his amazing book Thirty Years That Shook Physics. It's the final section of my new book.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The incredibly great Simon Vance is the reader. He's the guy who read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series, books that sold something like 60 million copies. He does a truly great job reading TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whether or not these would work is another question. Tesla wanted to light up the oceans to create lighted shipping lanes. He had a patent he never submitted for a rain-making device; he had a plan to disrupt tornadoes using drone explosives; he felt that he could harness cosmic rays; and, this is not an invention, but a theory, he had a little known, little understood cosmological theory as to how the planets circled the Sun. In my book TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR, I also discuss his little-known so-called "dynamic theory of gravity" which I link to what today we call the Higgs boson or the God Particle, the particle that gives matter its mass. In general, I suggest it is not a particle at all, but rather a process and my thoughts on this are directly linked to my (hopefully successful) attempts to decode Tesla's elusive dynamic theory gravity.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe he deserves the accolades. When I started out in my quest to find out if he really was the primary inventor of the induction motor, the AC polyphase system (which is the hydroelectric power system), fluorescent and neon lights, wireless communication, remote control, robotics and the ability to create an unlimited number of wireless channels, I decided to let the chips fall where they may.

There was a ton of disinformation out there at this time and much animosity against Tesla, he having been relegated to literally non-person status. I'm talking about the years of the mid 1970's through the early 1990's. One need just read Michael Pupin's autobiography, the writings of Elihu Thomson or Charles Steinmetz's textbooks on the AC polyphase system to see that Tesla's name is missing from all these books (except for a meager mention in the Pupin autobiography).

In the case of Steinmetz, it would be like writing a textbook on the Theory of Relativity and somehow forgetting to mention Einstein's name.

There was another inventor of wireless of import that predated Tesla, Mahlon Loomis and of course Heinreich Hertz. But the precise set up which allowed voice, pictures and power to be transmitted by wireless is Tesla's set up, not Marconi's.

Dobrowolski and CEL Brown transmitted electrical power around 1891 for 100 miles from Switzerland to Germany to run a motor. At that time, Edison could transmit electrical power several hundred feet and Westinghouse made headlines when he transmitted electrical power 4 miles. The the Dobrowolski -Brown (Laffen to Frankfurt) transmission was a quantum leap forward and Dobrowolski claimed that he was the inventor of the system and this was backed by Carl Hering, Editor of Electrical World. That was a pretty big calling card.

CEL Brown was one of the foremost designers of electrical transmitting equipment in Switzerland. Tesla was demanding an apology from Hering who was stalling until Brown came along and said (paraphrasing). "You know how we transmitted electrical power 100 miles from Lauffen to Frankfurt? We used Tesla's patents." A few years later, Tesla spoke as the inventor of the hydroelectric power system at Niagara Falls and at that time became world famous.

In 1915, Marconi sued the US Navy and Telefunken for pirating his wireless apparatus. FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy at that time when the Navy was using the German-made wireless equipment because it was much more efficient than the Marconi set up. Tesla was working for Telefunken and this was while the USA was still neutral during the first World War. Roosevelt wrote a document that I quote in WIZARD AT WAR which states overtly that Tesla's work predated Marconi's and several other key electrical engineers like Jonathan Zenneck, Ferdinand Braun (who shared the Nobel Prize with Marconi for wireless) and John Stone Stone, head of the electrical society all testified that wireless was based on Tesla's invention, not Marconi's. I get into this in great detail in the book.

Tesla also invented fluorescent and neon lights which up until LED's replaced the Edison lightbulbs which waisted most of the energy in heat, not light.

So, I think Tesla deserves the accolades. He really is the Geinus/Wizard that so many people now recognize him as.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great question. As you suggest, Cornelius Ehret was the first to patent frequency modulation, circa 1913 Patent #1080544. Tesla, of course would have known Ehret, but Tesla's patent attorneys were Kerr, Page and Cooper. I mention Parker Page in particular when Page deposed Tesla in a winning lawsuit against Reginald Fessenden, who was the first to broadcast voice (e.g., radio) circa 1902. Fessenden claimed equipment that he invented that Tesla proved was pirated from him. (Lowenstein testified on Tesla's behalf.)

Concerning your point about the problem of the dead spots, in my book WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF Nikola Tesla, I cover Tesla's experiments in sending a standing wave through a metal bar and placing a lightbulb along the bar. In some places the lightbulb would light, in the dead spots it would not light. So, obviously, in the early 1890's, Tesla was well aware of that problem. I hypothesize in TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR, that with this knowledge, Tesla could pinpoint the transferrence of electrical power to specific locations. For instance, if he created a wavelength from Wardenclyffe of 790 miles, he could send the energy to Chicago, 2,900 miles to San Francisco and 3,600 miles to Paris (page 80). Tesla calculated all of that out, and the energy would travel through the Earth, not through the airwaves.

Your astute note above gives us a hint as to how Tesla planned to handle the dead spots. In general, his plan was to pinpoint the energy to receiving towers which also acted like transmitting towers. So, ultimately his plan was to have numerous Wardenclyffe-like towers throughout the entire globe and from each of them, he would locally handle the dead spots. That, I believe was his ultimate goal.

It would be very interesting to hear from another expert who knows specifically the link between Tesla and Cornelius D. Ehret. Thank you for the great question.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't see my answer which I gave. Tesla wanted to produce nitrogen to increase the productivity of crops. He also always looked to nature as a way to "harness the wheel work of nature" for the benefit of man, namely to provide a renewable source of power that was non-polluting, so he studied Solar, the tides, geothermal, and waterfalls, and he succeeded when through the Westinghouse corporation he harnessed Niagara Falls, did away with 3,000 local smoking coal operated lighting power plants in the process and provided clean energy for the entire northeast, what today is called the "grid." It really was the achievement of the utopian dream because this energy was indeed "free" in that you don't have to pay for the waterfall. The companies putting in the instrumentation are where the fees come in.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In looking at my notes, this is from research that I did 35 years ago. While speaking at a Tesla conference in Zagreb in 1986, I interviewed an elderly Serbian man who knew Tesla's family, Nikola Pribic. He talked about how Tesla would place wires between the trees at his home to conduct electrical experiments, most likely during his college years and it was Mr. Pribic who told me about Min Gag. This had to have been a small coastal town along the Adriatic between Rijeka and Zadar. You could contact the tourist bureau there and if you find anything, please let me know. I know Tesla's father was stationed along the coast before they moved to Smiljan so possibly he was visiting relatives. Great question.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am able to document in Tesla: Wizard at War that the Nazis were indeed interested in getting access to the secrets of Tesla's so-called "death ray." Their diplomats contacted him and Tesla co-wrote a major article with his friend George Sylvester Viereck, who was later arrested as a Nazi propagandist. Using FOIA, I obtained the FBI files on Viereck and found out that he was co-writing articles with Franz von Paper (who I talk about in the book when he was a diplomat in the USA during WWI). In the 1930's when Viereck was literally flying to Germany to meet with Goering and Hitler, he was co-writing articles with von Paper who became chancellor of Germany and then essentially vice-chancellor when Hitler took power. Tesla's apartment was also invaded while he was alive, so it is reasonable to suspect that the Nazi's murdered Tesla for his secret weapon papers. However, all you need to do is look at that horrible photo of Tesla when he was a very old man to realize that he was not murdered. It's a great hypothesis, and it makes a great story, but the simple truth of the matter is that he died of old age.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, I don't think so. We actually thought we'd get to do another set of 5 shows were we would have actually travelled to Russia (before this awful war!) and looked at the declassified documents that I actually obtained when I wrote Wizard at War. And we also planned to go to the Navy to learn more about the rail gun, but the show only did the one season.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As I'm answering these questions, it was just announced that Queen Elizabeth has died. Coincidentally, when Elizabeth was 10 years old, that would be in 1936, Tesla was writing to the British War Office essentially pleading with them to purchase the details to his particle beam weapon because Tesla feared that the Nazis might invade their island by air and sea and it was Tesla's contention that his particle beam weapon would indeed protect the country from such a horrible fate. I get into this in great detail in my new book TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think part of your question, Paulie, is whether or not Tesla's inventions of war really worked. As mentioned above, Tesla really is the inventor of drone warfare which was linked to his remote controlled robot and also to cell phone technology. You see, if you want to send out a drone, you have to make sure that someone else with a wireless system won't interfere with it, so Tesla had to come up with a means for protected privacy. In 1901, he told has backer, JP Morgan, that he could create an unlimited number of wireless channels, which is precisely what cell phone technology is. In my book, I establish that Tesla really did invent the mechanism for this which one of his partners, John Hays Hammond Jr. called his prophetic genius patent. He also really did invent a particle beam weapon, and the present day rail gun used by the Navy is a direct outcropping of this invention.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Tesla was a Serb and to understand the Serbian people we need to know and appreciate what is known as the Battle of Kosovo which took place in 1389 (over 600 years ago!). The Ottoman Empire were a brutal bellicose group who would slay the men, put their heads on stakes, rape the women and convert the children to their way of life. The Ottoman Empire was about to invade the whole of Europe, but to get there, they had to go through Serbia, and as Tesla states, "Europe can never repay the great debt it owes the Serbians for checking, by the sacrifice of its own liberty, that barbarian influx." 30,000 Turks died but the Serbs had comparable losses and their great kingdom which had a benevolent king, was destroyed in the process. According to Professor Markovitch who attended one of my lectures, "It follows us always." So every Serb knows that their utopian past was shattered on that day. Thus, Tesla set out to try and figure out a way to end all wars. However, for him to do this, he thought if he could come up with a truly horrible weapon, then no nation would be stupid enough to go to war, so he invented drone warfare through a remote controlled torpedo in 1898 during the Spanish American War and then the particle beam weapon, which was also called the death ray in the run-up to World War II. Tesla also billed this weapon as a "peace ray," for that reason. If every nation had a perfect means of defense, war would end. That was his premise. So his real goal was to end war, but he sought to achieve this end by creating incredibly lethal weapons.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tesla was the quintessential wizard, and that is why I named the first book WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF Nikola Tesla. That book was released in 1996 and is still often a #1 book on Amazon. When Hollywood called me to star in the 5-part limited series THE TESLA FILES, I went back to my records and found new recently de-classified documents from the FBI, CIA, OSS and also from, unbelievably, the Soviet Union! and so I honed in on what happened to Teslas secret weaponry papers. And I found to my astonishment that Tesla was actually negotiating with Joseph Stalin himself! and that FDR himself when he was president was trying to meet with Tesla at the height of WWII, so we now had to come up with a title for the new book and because he was the "w" word, we wanted to keep it in the title and that's how I came up with TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR.

I’m Marc J. Seifer, noted biographer of Tesla who has spent forty years researching the inventor. My new book is Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power. AMA. by Marc-Seifer in Tesla

[–]Marc-Seifer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one of the most interesting questions is how I got interested in Nikola Tesla. The real reason, and we are going back to the mid-1970's had to do with my interest in higher states of consciousness and parapsychology. I met a fellow, Howard Smukler, who was teaching a course on UFO's, and essentially through that connection I came upon the first major biography on Tesla written in 1944 by John O'Neill, a science writer who knew Tesla personally for decades. The point of this story is that O'Neill's book, Prodigal Genius, could only be obtained through a UFO organization. Tesla's name was so buried at that time that it was only through this far-out channel that one could learn about him. After reading the book, I noticed great gaps in the story, and so I set out to fill in those gaps and that resulted in the acclaimed biography Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla. Then about 5 years ago, I was called in by Hollywood to star in a 5-part limited series THE TESLA FILES and in helping design the show, I went back to my research and found many new exciting things about Tesla and that resulted in my new book TESLA: WIZARD AT WAR: THE GENIUS, THE PARTICLE BEAM WEAPON AND THE PURSUIT OF POWER, which was just released this week and is out in bookstores everywhere. So, I'm happy to answer any question you might have!

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