Claudia1968 from Vancouver wrote:
´´Just would like to add that Nikola Tesla was Serbian, son of a Serbian Orthodox priest, born in a part of Croatia, Smiljani - Gospic, now totally devastated and destroyed by Croatian troops in 1995.´´
Claudia, please, don´t abuse this forum for promoting political propaganda by writing false facts which people in civil world call lies. I am wondering why administrators leave such reviews published. Kind regards from Austria.
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This movie was about Tesla's life and his inventions. Adding information on Tesla's origin and nationality is not propaganda (unless you have some personal agenda against him and his people). The truth that his hometown, house and his father's church are destroyed are sad facts of life, and I don't see why you found them offensive. Gospic and Smiljani are not on Croatia's tourist guide for the reason mentioned. It would be nice, though, if we could visit his house, especially this year in which we celebrate his 150th birthday. Tesla was an American citizen of Serbian ancestry and both Americans and Serbs are very proud of this genius who gave light to the mankind.
shareAlthough it doesn't really matter, I heard that Tesla always said he is serbian but considers himself croatian (im sorry i cant quote). But here in balkans the religion one belongs to defines one's nationality. Tesla was born in croatia and had spent his first 20 years in croatia. He had friends there, felt for Smiljani as his home. So I dont know how could he feel for Serbia as his home. His genes and religion were serbian, but I want to say that it alone doesnt define one as totally serbian.
My parents are originally bosnian and non-christian, but i was born in croatia, have spent whole of my life in croatia, made friendships, fell in love in croatia for the first time, think of my hometown as my home so why would I define myself as bosnian? I have all together spent only a few months in bosnia. And I'm not narrow minded to look at religion as something else than a deeply personal and private thing.
I think Tesla would say for himself that he feels simply as yugoslavian because he wasnt nationalistic, funamentalistic or anything like that. I think that the definition of tesla as 200% serbian will change in future when tensions between croatia and serbia decrease or even disappear.
Anyway, Tesla was a human and we should all feel proud of him simply because he was so much nearer perfection than the most.
The movie's English title, "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" alludes to goofy claims made by Tesla in his declining years. In his 80s, Telsa made claims that scientists now doubt were valid. For example, Tesla claimed to have solved the unified field theory of gravity, but never published it. Other claims, like a death ray that could bring down enemy airplanes hundreds of miles away, gave Tesla the reputation of being a mad scientist.
But Tesla should not be remembered for the eccentricities of his later years. As a young man, Tesla was indeed an amazing genius of electricity and magnetism who was eventually honored on the cover of Time Magazine. He designed in his brain a thing that every person reading these words has used every day of their lives, the electric AC motor. (Until this, alternating current couldn't run a motor!) Before the year 1900, he had invented the first radio transmitter, invented the spark plug, designed a radio controlled torpedo, created several kinds of fluorescent tube lights, designed generators for Edison, and created images of the bones of his hand prior to Röntgen's discovery of x-rays.
I would encourage readers to see this movie about a very unique scientist, particularly since every other comment here ignores the movie to make partisan political claims. Apparently this explains why Yugoslavia was plunged in a bloody civil war.
The Movie's English title "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" is misleading, but the amazing accomplishments of Tesla himself make this movie worth seeing.
-- The movie's English title, "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" alludes to goofy claims made by Tesla in his declining years--
In the film, Thomas Edison derides tesla`s alternating current theory, and has many other people agreeing with him. They thought him goofy then, but it`s Tesla`s method we use today, not Edisons. Maybe thes "goofy" ideas of the older Tesla will one day be recognised as right...
I got it,I got it,I got it...I ain`t got it
Edison pushed his antiquated idea for DC (Direct Current) powerplants at the cost of the public, just to make a fast buck, while Tesla, a true engineer as well as scientist and inventor, saw the need for reciprocity in the circuitry for AC motors, especially large scale ones like the hydroelectric plant at Niagara that he designed for George Westinghouse. Tesla was a true visionary, making robot-controlled submarines and boats that no one had any use for, for more than 40 years into the future. Now we see the manifestation of Tesla's genius all around us in the practical applications of his excellent concepts. He could have led the world into a new scientific utopia, but people were not willing to follow.
One thing we never will be able to use, due to corporate greed, is his transmitting towers to send wireless electricity through the air. In a perfect world, this would be the perfect answer, but humans are not perfect.
Dejael
ALthough it's interesting that some of the newest high-capacity long distance lines now use DC. I don't understand how that works, as normally DC is only good for a few miles.
share"Although it doesn't really matter, I heard that Tesla always said he is serbian but considers himself croatian (im sorry i cant quote). But here in balkans the religion one belongs to defines one's nationality."
It's a false statement which would roughly translate as "I'm proud of my Serbian ancestry and my Croatian homeland". He never said. And he wasn't born in Croatia, he was born in Austria-Hungary, in a part which was mostly inhabited by Serbs and Croats, that later become Croatia. That would be like saying that Roman Emperor Constantine the Great was Serbian because he was born in a land which is today Serbia.
If we could have asked him then, he would have probably declared himself Yugoslavian. But since Yugoslavia no longer exist and we want to discern his nationality today, he could be only Serbian.
But, Tesla, like all Great Men, was supra-national. His contributions to mankind surpasses any one nation and should be respected by all. In simple terms, he's big enough for the entire world. Discussing his nationality is fair as topic of conversation but is cheap way to score some political points. The same thing happened with Copernicus - is he Polish or German? He's big enough to be both...
can someone relate to tesla? how he felt and saw the world? Like the people around him saw him as weird/lunatic, women found him attractive because he was mysterious...but aside from that the movie was B++ and ended abruptly...wish someone could make a better movie on him...what a character!
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