Nikola Tesla and His Works - On the Occassion of the Eightieth Anniversary Page 33

Science recognized Tesla’s great merits in this field, but even here national chauvinism partially succeeded in concealing the truth. Names were introduced: “Tesla’s transformer,” “Tesla’s current,” “Tesla’s coils,” “Tesla’s oscillations”, which are all related to high voltages. This was intended to emphasize Tesla’s contributions in discovering ways to convert low-frequency currents into high voltage. No one was mentioned as the inventor of low-voltage currents. Among Germans, Hertz is considered their inventor so far. However, this does not align with actual facts. Tesla discovered high-frequency low-voltage currents and methods of their production. To confirm this, we don’t need a higher authority than Hertz himself, who explicitly admitted that continuous oscillations are impossible to produce. Hertz not only states that he personally cannot produce continuous oscillations, even of the smallest energies, but after two years of work by all significant and renowned physicists and electricians in the field, he categorically claims that it is impossible.

With his high-frequency currents, Tesla caused an unusual surprise in science in the early nineties. It was felt that Tesla had created something new, which hides great possibilities. The best evidence for this is the fact that after his lecture in New York, held on May 20, 1891 before the Institute of Electrical Engineers, he was invited by engineering and physical science institutes and academies of sciences in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Vienna and Budapest to repeat his lecture and present the results he had achieved. Tesla partially responded and organized new lectures on February 3 and 4, 1892, in London, on February 19 in Paris, and in February and March 1893 in Philadelphia and St. Louis, presenting many new results of his research and laying solid foundations for this new field of science and technology.

Tesla’s high-frequency currents are of great importance both scientifically and practically.

From a scientific perspective, they mark the beginning of new research and investigations into the essence of electricity. Tesla, through the discovery of various phenomena regarding physiological and luminous effects, showed that there is a large unexplored field here that can lead to solving the mystery of the nature of electricity and matter. Tesla’s contemporaries, such as Thomson, Rayleigh, and others, were influenced by Tesla, and even the most renowned physicists of the time, such as Rutherford, Bragg, Miliken, Compton, and others, publicly acknowledged that Tesla’s lectures from 1892-1893 had a significant impact on their work.

In practical terms, Tesla’s work had multiple applications. As early as 1890, Tesla determined that his currents had a very favorable effect on the human organism and could be utilized in electrotherapy. Today, various methods of application of Tesla’s currents are well known