Nicola Tesla: The Worlds Most Popular Unknown Inventor.

Nikola Tesla may be one of the most brilliant men in history. He was known for his love of pigeons, battle with Thomas Edison, charisma, and his tragic decline into old age.
But most of all, he changed civilization for all time with electric power distribution. Think of this: how many really fundamental aspects of civilization there are: Accounting This list is not large. The inventors of most are unknown. But one single man is responsible for two of them: Radio and Power distribution.

Respect him for the electric motor and neon lights. A memorial on Goat Island, at Niagara Falls, is a public reminder of the man and his era.
It is a fact that the Supreme Court, of the USA made a final judgement that Nicola Tesla did, in fact invent radio. Like many legal decisions, this decision came far too late to be of any practical use to Tesla, and most people still credit Marconi with the invention. It is true, that Marconi demonstrated the first long distance transmission, it is simply because he invented a useful 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 on Tesla. The best solutions involve a voodoo recipe of several things: Look it up in an encyclopedia . This is what you had to do in the 'olden' days: before the internet .
Even if you begin your exploration at a library, you will find that much of the information on Tesla is available on a computer, very likely the same internet that you have access to at your home.
There are several 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 Ask.com or newer ones like Baidu 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 categorize them for you.
There are some problems with either of these methods: Google's ranking algorithm for Tesla is highly influenced by the business of SEO (search engine optimization) which attempts to defeat Google's methods to increase a web site's back-links and so make it seem better than it really is. This makes it harder to find the real good sources for Tesla. SEO is big business for sites that make money on the internet, because search engines can make or break a web site. There are ethical and unethical people useing these techniques who have not the slightest interest in Tesla. In fact, any search engine using computer algorithms to analyse text will completely miss ambiguities in meaning like, searching for academic information on Tesla may get you tons of listings about 'learn Tesla acupuncture' . How many times will you have to dig down to the 21st page of the web search to find something really useful about Tesla? More times 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 constitutes an appropriate web site: some kinds of information rich sites on Tesla can't even get in. In fact, the decisions about what is good is under control of a very few people with rather rigid rules: a junior editor often has a decision overturned 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 months to get accepted , if ever. And the categories are limited, with few places to put new concepts. It takes months for a new category to be approved.
A surprisingly successful response is the wikipedia, where everyone can update the listing: and amazingly enough, wikipedia has a very good track record of being precise,authoritative and, well, generally useful.
Now, in September 2008, there is a new challenger in web site review 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 venture 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 evaluation is simple: a web site about 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 choose 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 judged. 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 other 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 seemingly forever. A pioneer in networking of computers he now follows the difficulties people have in using the information that is so near, yet so far.

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