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Nicola Tesla: The Worlds Most Popular Unknown Inventor.

By: J. Chord

Nikola Tesla may be totally unknown to you. He was known for his charisma, battle with Thomas Edison, battle with inner demons, and his dependence on finacial backers.
But most of all, he changed civilization forever with electric power . How many really fundamental aspects of civilization there are: Roads This list is not large. Maybe you can add one or two to this list. The inventors of most are unknown. But one single man is responsible for two of them: Radio and Power distribution.

Credit him for the electric motor and florescent lights. A statue on Goat Island, at Niagara Falls, New York, is one public reminder of the man, his inventions and his era.
It is a fact that the Supreme Court, of the USA made a final judgement that Nikola Tesla did, in fact invent radio. This decision came far too late to be of practical use to Tesla, and most people still credit Marconi with the invention. It is a fact, that Marconi did the first public long distance transmission, it is simply because he invented a better antenna, not the underlying radio technology. In fact, Tesla had already showed 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 mix of many things: Look it up in an encyclopedia . This is what you had to do in the 'olden' days: before the information superhighway.
Even when you begin your exploration at a library, public or private, you will find that much of the information on Tesla is available on a computer, possibly the same internet that you have access to at your home.
There are a few 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 Yahoo Search! , Google or newer ones like Guruji.com 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 tactics: Google's search engine algorithm for Tesla is strongly impacted by the internet business of SEO (search engine optimization) which attempts take advantage of Google's methods to increase a web site's back-links and so make it seem bigger 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 '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 can completely miss nuances in language for example, searching for 'information about Tesla' may get you tons of listings about 'go back to Tesla school' . How many times will you have to dig down to the fifth 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 may not suffer 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 acceptable web site: many 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 with rigid: a junior editor often has a decision overrulled by a higher ranking 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 approved , 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 alternative has been the wikipedia, where everyone gets a shot at updating the site: and surprisingly, wikipedia has a very good reputation of being appropriate, informative, precise and, generally useful.
Now, in September 2008, there is a new start-up in web site ranking 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 evaluation 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 visitor to say which site of the two is more appropriate. 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 statistically 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. 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 internet seemingly forever. An old timer in technology he now follows the difficulties people have in using the information that is so near, yet so far.

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