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Nicola Tesla: The Worlds Most Popular Unknown Inventor.

Nick Tesla may be everybody's favorite mad scientist. He was known for his charisma, love of pigeons, bizzare attitudes, battle with inner demons, and his tragic decline into old age.
But most of all, he altered the world for all time with electric power . Think of this: how many really fundamental aspects of civilization there are: The wheel This list is not large. Maybe you can add one or two. The inventors of most are lost to history. But one single man is responsible for two of them: Radio and Power distribution.

Respect him for the electric motor and remote control. A statue on Goat Island, at Niagara Falls, is a solitary public reminder of the man and his era.
It is true that the Supreme Court, of the USA made a final judgement that Nicola Tesla did, in fact invent radio. This decision came too late to be of any practical use to Tesla, and most people still credit Marconi with the invention. It is a fact Marconi did the first public long distance radio transmission, it is simply because he invented an improved antenna, not the radio technology. In fact, Tesla had already demonstrated the radio control of automated submarines to the military in New York Harbor.
There are lots of web sites with information about Tesla, and many sources about this fascinating man.
But how do you find the best information about Tesla. The best solutions involve a combination of several things: Go to the library. This is what you had to do yesterday: before the internet .
Yet when you start your exploration at a library, public or private, you will find that much of the information on Tesla is available by way of a computer, possibly the same internet that you have access to at your home.
There are two kinds of web resources that you will see over and over again: the first kind is a search engine, Your friends, the old standards like Google or newer ones like Baidu , Wikiseek or a directory of existing sites: like DMOZ, which use humans working as librarians to pour over the web sites, find the ones dealing with Tesla and sort them for you.
There are some troubles using these approaches: Google's ranking algorithm for Tesla is strongly influenced by the business of SEO (search engine optimization) which attempts take advantage of Google's methods to increase a web site's ranking and hence make it look better than it really is. This makes it harder to find the real good sources for Tesla. SEO is big business for sites that get advertizing revenue on the internet, because search engines can make or break a web site. There are 'black hat' and 'white hat' people useing these techniques who have not the slightest interest in Tesla. In fact, any search engine using computer algorithms to analyse text will totally miss ambiguities of language like, searching for 'information about Tesla' get you tons of listings about 'go back to Tesla school' . How many times will you have to dig down to the seventh page of the web search to find something really useful about Tesla? More often than you wish!
One alternative, A directory organized by humans like DMOZ will not have that kind of lanugage problem, but the editors of those directories are volunteers, with limited time and have to obey some odd rules about what makes up an acceptable web site: some types of information rich sites on Tesla can't even get in. In fact, the decisions about what is suitable or not is under in the hands of a very few people rules that are just too rigid: a junior editor often has a decision overrulled by a another editor sometimes, for the most obscure reasons. They are well meaning, but can they really speak to be knowledgeable about all they do? The websites that are accepted may have to wait for weeks to get approved , if ever. And the categories are limited, with no place to put new concepts. It may take months for a category to be approved: if at all.
A very successful alternative is the wikipedia, where everyone gets a shot at updating the information: and surprisingly, wikipedia has a very good track record of being authoritative, informative, precise and, well, generally useful.
As of September 2008, there is a new challenger in web site rating directories that really does attempt to answer the question of which site is best, or at least as they put it: "which site has the most vava-voom!" That new site is http://vava.vu/ , a web domain out of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. Vava.vu will let any web site be entered to be rated by the general public and given the tag Tesla. For example: http://vava.vu/?Tag=Tesla -- will get you started! The judging is simple: a web site on Tesla has a rank and a 'statistical strength' associated with it: When someone visits vava.vu, those sites with weaker strength are put side by side, and it is up to the public to vote which site of the two is better. When enough votes are cast, the visitor will see the real top ten sites about Tesla ,or any category: These sites are the ones that you, the public has given the green lite to. The idea is logically solid in that a visitor only can compare two sites at a time: one will win and one will not. A visitor can't give a yea or nay to one site by itself because that would skew the results. The Best will rise: some sites will consistantly win out over lesser sites.
So if you are interested in Tesla , you can go find the answers in several areas: Locally in the library, from friends, or on the internet at your favorite search engine, a directory like DMOZ or wikipedia. Or with the new alternative on the block: http://vava.vu/?Tag=Tesla

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J. Chord at vava.vu has followed the WWW since before it started. An old timer in the www he now follows the difficulties people have in finding the information that is so near, yet so far.

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