"Oh, my friend, why didn't you wash your hair again?" Mark Twain said to Tesla after entering the door.
After Tesla saw Mark Twain, he knew that he was joking with him, and he also knew very well that the style of his works had always been satirical and humorous. Tesla said: "Old friend, if I had a head like you If you have curly hair, then I promise you will never wash your hair." Mark Twain laughed and said, "You finally understand some humor now, and I'm just saying, it's good to read more of my books." Tesla He was a relatively reserved person and was not good at communicating with others, but Mark Twain was just the opposite, almost a social butterfly.
Tesla said: "It seems that you have another novel idea to show me. I hope it won't be something weird like an automatic hay feeder or an eyedrop funnel."
"Okay, you're kidding me now! There's progress!" Mark Twain unfolded the design draft in his hand and said confidently,
"Look, this is a new type of button. You know, my pants always fell off when I was riding, and it was so troublesome to tie them up. If there were such buttons, they would never have appeared!" Tesla only glanced at it. He frowned and said, "Old friend, you are not bullying me for not being married, are you?" Mark Twain was surprised: "What does this have to do with it?" Tesla pointed to the drawing and said, "Although I have always been single , but I have also passed by women's underwear stores many times in shopping malls. No matter how you look at it, this should be used for women's underwear." It is true that Tesla never married, but that did not prevent others from having a vicious vision.
I've never seen anything like that, and...well, this statement doesn't seem appropriate. Mark Twain opened his mouth,
"You, you, you~" Tesla said: "Old friend, you are so old, you are not still interested in women's underwear, right? If Madam finds out, I'm afraid..."
"Are you sure you're not joking?" Mark Twain finally asked. Tesla spread his hands: "When have I ever made a joke to you?"
"I didn't expect that," said Mark Twain.
"This Chinese Li Yu said the same thing as you."
"Li Yu?" Tesla asked in surprise. Mark Twain said: "Yes, that's him, we just met at the door." Tesla glanced at Li Yu, but said: "Strange, is it true? Why is the hairstyle different from the one in the newspaper? What do Chinese people look like?" Li Yu said with a smile: "Chinese people look like this. You want to say that there was still a braid in the newspaper before, right? I cut it off." This was the first time Li Yu saw it. This scientist was almost forgotten by later generations but was actually extremely brilliant.
Tesla put down Mark Twain's drawings and shook his hand.
"It's unbelievable that you are so young! You can write such a profound mathematics book as "Fractals and Chaos". I have also read your paper. Although I don't know much about thermodynamics and black body problems, I can see your mathematics. The foundation is very good." Tesla was also very good at mathematics. The difference between him and Edison was that he would use mathematical knowledge to deduct and deliberate before doing experiments, and only experiments would be carried out when it was reasonable.
Edison himself only had a primary school diploma and did not know much advanced mathematical knowledge. His method of inventing was relatively crude, which was to try.
Therefore, when Tesla was working at the Edison Electric Light Company, he repeatedly proposed many test plans that were obviously unfeasible, but Edison did not adopt them.
The two had a feud, and now as an employee he was contradicting his boss. Edison couldn't bear it, even if Tesla was right most of the time.
In addition, Edison was not optimistic about Tesla's so-called alternating current, so the two quickly parted ways.
Tesla took down a copy of "Fractals and Chaos" from the bookshelf.
"I have read it several times, but I have questions about a few questions, and I have never been able to find anyone to ask. You are here just in time." Li Yu said: "This is easy to say..." Mark Twain interrupted their conversation: " I said to you two scientists, can you wait and talk later? You are so young, and I have already stepped into heaven, so tell me first whether this invention is feasible."
"Sorry, old friend," Tesla apologized,
"I really didn't expect this scientific celebrity to come, and I forgot about you for a while. As for your invention, of course it is feasible, but whether it can be used in women's underwear requires technical personnel from the clothing company to consult with you." Mark Twain held his head and said, "Am I still going to the women's underwear factory?" Tesla added, "I also heard that you seem to have a bad stomach recently." Mark Twain held his stomach and said, "Even you Do you know? If these excrement reporters are not busy breaking the news about monopoly companies, why do they write articles in newspapers saying that I have diarrhea?" The excrement reporters or the excrement movement refers to the rise of the excrement reporters at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In the United States, journalists and newspapers conduct in-depth investigations, expose scandals, and reveal the dark side of society.
The name was originally mentioned by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech. He compared these reporters who are dedicated to exposing scandals to the villain in a book. This villain never looks up to the sky, but just holds a manure rake and immerses himself in cleaning. The filth on the ground.
Unexpectedly, reporters loved this title very much, and it passed down like this. However, the manure raking campaign once again strengthened the reporter's
The title of "Uncrowned King" plays a significant role in purifying the social environment. For example, the collapse of a behemoth like Standard Oil, a subsidiary of the Rockefeller consortium that monopolized the market, was inseparable from the exposure of excrement reporters.
As for Mark Twain, simply because he has such a high status now, he is a literary leader, and his every move attracts public attention. Of course, reporters like to report on his daily life.
Readers are also very willing to read it, and it becomes a hot topic at every turn. It seems a bit like someone in the future will become a hot search even if his child falls to the ground.
Tesla said: "Now the whole New York knows that you have diarrhea." Mark Twain said: "It's really strange that you have diarrhea. I don't know what's going on. Sometimes, I have to go to the toilet four or five times a day. Sometimes I can’t pull it out for two or three days, like now.”
"It's really confusing," Tesla said.
"Just like my inspiration, sometimes it bursts out suddenly, and sometimes there is no progress for many days." Mark Twain laughed and said: "It's so interesting, it turns out that scientific inspiration is like diarrhea!"
"Don't talk about diarrhea yet," Mark Twain walked to a corner of Tesla's laboratory and said
"I found this machine interesting right from the moment I walked in. What does it do?"
"It's called an oscillator," Tesla said.
"Oh~" Mark Twain became more interested,
"I heard when I was in Europe that you created a small earthquake in New York. Could this be the thing you used?" Tesla nodded: "Yes, but this one is much smaller." Mark ·Twain stood up directly,
"I heard before that earthquakes are caused by the earth sneezing under our feet. So, your oscillator is like pepper noodles, which can make the earth actively sneeze." Tesla smiled: "Your metaphor is really vivid. ”
"Then, this is the button. I want to try the feeling of an earthquake." Mark Twain said and pressed it.
"Don't!" Tesla didn't have time to stop him. The oscillator quickly began to tremble, and after dozens of seconds of feeling like a jumping machine, the vibrator was turned off by Tesla.
Mark Twain got off the oscillator with Tesla's help.
"Hurry, I can't do it anymore!"
"Old friend, what's wrong with you?" Tesla asked hurriedly.
"I can't hold it in anymore!" Mark Twain said, holding his stomach.
"Tell me where the toilet is!" Well, now he felt the pleasure of flying thousands of miles.
Mark Twain was very happy afterwards: "If I feel constipated in the future, I will definitely visit your laboratory again."
"Then you must come early, because I'm afraid that before long, this laboratory will no longer belong to me." Tesla said.
Mark Twain wondered: "Why?" Tesla said helplessly: "My experimental project has not made much progress recently, and the Wardenclyffe Tower, which has devoted all its efforts, cannot complete its scheduled goals. I am afraid that Mr. Morgan will soon We need to divest our capital." There has always been one of the most famous photos of Tesla on the Internet. It is Tesla sitting in front of a huge plate of coils, holding a book. This laboratory was destroyed by fire in 1894, and many experiments were carried out. The information also disappeared.
However, he did not expect that after the laboratory was destroyed, his enemy Edison actually gave the current laboratory to Tesla.
But it is somewhat ironic that this laboratory was the place where Edison used to conduct various slanderous alternating current experiments during the current war between the two.
At that time, in order to oppose alternating current and at the same time increase his own direct current, Edison deliberately electrocuted many cattle, sheep, cats and dogs with alternating current to prove to the public that alternating current was unsafe.
Of course, it turns out that Tesla and his alternating current won in the end. The Wardenclyffe Tower, which is still under construction, is where Tesla wants to realize his ultimate dream - he wants to realize global wireless power transmission and provide endless energy for mankind.
Tesla convinced Morgan to invest, and Morgan was driven by the business prospects of global radio broadcasting.
I just didn't expect that Italy's Marconi would be the first to arrive and complete radio transmission across the Atlantic ahead of time.
In fact, Tesla had completed radio communication a few years ago before the fire destroyed the laboratory, but who would have thought that there would be a fire.
As for Tesla himself, he was a pure inventor. Now that radio had been invented, he felt it didn't matter and continued to work on more difficult wireless power transmission.
Radio transmits signals; wireless power transmits electrical energy. The issue of wireless power transmission is a bit complicated to explain. To put it simply, Tesla believes that there is a global power transmission on the earth.
The phenomenon of "electromagnetic resonance" is formed between the earth's surface and the ionosphere. Lightning can excite such global electromagnetic resonance.
If the earth itself is used as a conductor to transport electricity to the ionosphere, electromagnetic resonance can be used to continuously propagate alternating current in the atmosphere.
As long as the earth's ground is equipped with special antennas, power from the sky can be received. However, later generations obviously know that wireless power transmission will have unavoidable dispersion and instability, that is, the efficiency in power transmission cannot be fixed and will spread quickly.
If a wireless power transmitter emits 1 million watts of power to the outside world, the electrical equipment on the other side of the earth can only receive 10 watts.
Therefore, long-distance wireless power transmission technology is unlikely to be realized now or in the foreseeable future.
At present, human technology can only achieve short-range wireless power transmission, such as the wireless charging function of mobile phones.
Tesla is a bit like Mazda in the later automotive world. There has always been a joke on the Internet, saying that Mazda will research rotary engines when it has money, sell cars when it has no money, and continue to research rotary engines when it makes money.
Tesla built the Wardenclyffe Tower, which he told Morgan was for global radio broadcasting, but what he wanted most was his own wireless power transmission.
Morgan is a big plutocrat, and one of the best in the United States. Mark Twain said: "I say capitalists are stingy. He is so rich, what's wrong with giving you some subsidies? If I hadn't been killed by that damn automatic typesetting machine The machine wasted a lot of money, and I will definitely help you." Tesla smiled and said: "Thank you so much, old friend! If your underwear buttons sell well, maybe you will be rich." Mark Tu Wen said: "Why did you mention this again?" Sierra coughed next to him: "Can you stop discussing the issue of underwear?" Mark Twain laughed: "I forgot that we have a beautiful woman here. Miss, it’s all your fault for being so old and naughty.” Tesla was amused: “You have no right to accuse me of being old.” Then he said to Li Yu,
"Sorry, I was interrupted again by Mr. Mark Twain. Where did we just talk?" Li Yu said: "We talked about mathematical problems, but I really want to know, Mr. Tesla, are you really ready to give up radio?" Research?" Tesla obtained a radio patent in 1897, but it was quickly rejected by the U.S. Patent Office and awarded to Italian Marconi.
Tesla said casually: "Many people are already working on this technology, but no one has done what I want to do." Tesla is indeed a persistent inventive maniac who doesn't care about commercial realization at all.
Someone had formed an electrical company with him before. Tesla even gave his alternating current patent to the company, but later the company kicked him out... As a result, Tesla only had a piece of company equity with little actual value.
Li Yu said: "Both can be done, and both are things that benefit mankind." Tesla didn't care much.
"I think wireless power transmission is of greater significance." Li Yu knew that this was a big pit, and that Wardenclyffe Tower would also be demolished in a few years.
So Li Yu said: "Sir, don't you encounter financial difficulties now? I think you can use wireless to achieve commercial value. When you have money, you can continue your wireless power research." Although this is a bit deceptive, it is not harmful. Tesla.
Tesla does feel that it makes sense, because he no longer has many sources of income, and only a few that can bring in a certain amount of income, such as the AC motor patent, are about to expire.
Tesla thought for a while and said: "I just think that radio has been studied clearly, and there is no challenge." Well, this is what he thought, and he is indeed a scientific madman.
Li Yu shook his head and said: "Radio is only working in principle now. As for subsequent applications, there is still much that can be done." Tesla asked: "Why are you mentioning this to me? Do you also understand radio?" Li Yu Said: "If you know something, we can work together on research and development."
"Although I already know that you are very capable, it may not be convenient for you to be far away in China." Tesla said.
"So this is the power of radio. It allows people at long distances to achieve more convenient instant communication. Even on both ends of the earth, isn't it of great significance?" Li Yu said.
Tesla finally nodded slightly: "Instant messaging, it sounds interesting." Li Yu said: "Of course it is interesting, and it involves a lot of communication difficulties such as decoding. I don't think you will find it boring. ." Tesla thought for a while,
"I can accept your statement. I like this kind of challenging research and development, but I will not give up on wireless power transmission research." It would be great if Tesla could agree. Li Yu quickly said: "Of course there will be no delay! Soon! In the future, I will also set up a laboratory on Fifth Avenue, and we can always work together. And I am not a capitalist. I respect and support your various researches from the bottom of my heart." Tesla said: "Let's settle it for now. , we will continue to discuss it after your laboratory is completed." Li Yu said happily: "What will greet us will be a bright future." If we really pull this great god here in the future, it will definitely be even more powerful.
