SIGHTINGS



Revered By Students -
Third Graders' Effort
Crushed By The Smithsonian
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These students learned the true story of electrical history...not the politically correct version taught by a trusting but brainwashed educational system. When we learned that Nikola Tesla was the underdog of electrical history and was ignored by the Smithsonian, we made him our class hero and immediately started a campaign to secure his proper place in history.
 
DECEPTION AT THE SMITHSONIAN
 
Its curator essentially credits Edison for our worldwide system of electricity. He also credits Marconi for the invention of radio. This is a deliberate assault on factual history and needs to be challenged.
 
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
 
We choose to believe the United States Patent Office and the U.S. Supreme Court over the much distorted history the Smithsonian publicizes.
 
Tesla holds over forty U.S. patents (circa 1888) covering our entire system of Polyphase Alternating Current (AC). These patents are so novel that nobody could ever challenge them in the courts.
 
The Direct Current (DC) system Edison used in his much touted Pearl Street generating station was invented by others before his time; he merely copied the work of others to promote his business enterprise...and the Smithsonian wants you to believe he was America's 'King of Electricity.' There is simply no evidence to support this claim.
 
Lest you jump to the wrong conclusion, we are not criticzing Mr. Edison, whose Menlo Park Laboratory workers were responsible for many practical inventions; we are criticizing only the groups promoting Mr. Edison's name in the electrical power field.
 
INVENTION OF RADIO
 
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark decision dated June 21, 1943, Case No. 369, overturned Marconi's basic patent for the invention of radio because Tesla's patent on the four-tuned circuit (below) predated Marconi's patent. Marconi had simply copied Tesla's work.
 
TESLA'S FIRST VIABLE RADIO CIRCUIT IN 1893 - UPHELD BY THE SUPREME COURT
 
Tesla's four-tuned circuits (two on the receving side and two on the transmitting side, secured by U.S. patents #645,576 and #649,621) were the basis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Case #369 decided June 21, 1943) to overturn Marconi's basic patent on the invention of radio.
 
Marconi merely demonstrated Tesla's invention, but the gullible media and the greedy industry that followed perpetuate a myth that Marconi invented radio. Who do you believe has more credibility...the industries that promote their own businesses, or the U.S. Supreme Court?
 
Marconi's two-tuned circuit system was the same as that advanced by Heinrich Hertz and was no more a viable system of radio than that advanced by Mahlon Loomis in 1872...long before Hertz or Tesla. In one of my LINK pages I tell the complete story in legal and technical terms. Any unbiased reader should arrive at the same conclusion.
 
OUR QUEST
 
After we learned the heart wrenching story of Tesla's life, and realized what a great American he was, we wanted to tell the world about him...and we did. We wrote many letters to important people asking for their support.
 
 


Tesla sitting and reading a book under the fury of his remarkable "Tesla Coil"
 
 
A former student persuaded her father, an accomplished sculptor, to create a bust of Tesla for our class, but we had to pay for the materials.
 
A Third Grade requirement is to learn cursive handwriting, so our classwork now had a purpose...WRITING LETTERS to raise money for our Tesla bust.
 
Here are pictures of Jessica and Cory, two super letter writers.
 
EVIDENCE OF MOTIVATION
 
This is a photogrph of the impeccably crafted letters we wrote to more than one hundred American corporation presidents and CEO's. Many responded with generous checks to support our campaign. We even received a check from the president of Sony Corporation in Japan.





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