I stumbled across some good videos about Nikola Tesla. I'm sure anyone who admires him as I do will enjoy them. They are much more enjoyable if you download the player and the videos. So you can watch them whenever.

The first one was done by Warner Bros. and is a top notch production. They range in length but are worth watching over reading on Tesla. There is so much to read, plus some of these mention things I haven't read yet. Hope some enjoy them as much as I do.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=88...q=label%3Atesla

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=22...q=lable%3Atesla

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=20...+life+and+Times

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...+life+and+Times

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...&q=Nikola+Tesla

Good GTOGTS!,nice videos.

I found the google video player here:

http://www.fileratings.com/Review/Google_Video_Player

Somehow I missed the google link.

Thanks for the links. I used vdownloader on google but the files proved
unplayable until converted to a file without sound.

Vdownloard never worked on youtube.

That's funny I never had a problem downloading the player. But they have changed the site since I did. Sorry you had a problem.

Hope you enjoy the video's.

High Vacuum Eliminated

The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus section not legible eliminating the need for a "high vacuum;" a second is a process for producing "very great electrical force;" third is a method of amplifying this force, and the fourth is a new method for producing "a tremendous repelling electrical force." This would be the projector, or the gun of the system. The voltage for propelling the beam to its objective, according to the inventor, will attain a potential of 80,000,000 volts.

With this enormous voltage, he said, microscopic electrical particles of matter will be catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. He has been working on this invention, he added, for many years and has made a number of improvements on it.

Mr. Tesla makes one important stipulation. Should the government decide to take up his offer, he would go to work on it at once, but they would have to trust him. He would suffer "no interference from experts."

In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions on national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with his "teleforce" plant.

Such a Device "Invaluable"

After all $2,000,000 would be relatively a very small sum compared with what is at stake. If Mr. Tesla really fulfills his promise the results achieved would be truly staggering. Now only would it save billions now planned for air defense, by making the country absolutely impregnable against any air attack, but it also would save many more billions in property that would otherwise be surely destroyed no matter how strong the defenses are as witness current events in England.

Take, for example, the Panama Canal. No matter how strong the defense, a suicide squadron of dive bombers, according to some experts, might succeed in getting through and cause such damage that would make the Canal unusable, in which our Navy might find it self bottled up.

Considering the probabilities in the case even if the chances were a 100,000 to 1 against Mr. Tesla the odds would still be largely in favor of taking a chance of spending $2000,000. In the opinion of the writer, who has known Mr. Tesla for many years and can testify he still retains full intellectual vigor, the authorities in charge of building national defense should at once look into the matter. The sum is insignificant compared to the magnitude of the stake.

If Tesla's Teleforce project was feasible it could have protected the the country from invasion and nuclear attack and would have been much cheaper than the Manhattan Project. It could have been deployed quickly and given the US more time developing the bomb.

I wonder if anyone has ever looked into the possibility of something like this. I guess that ICBMs were more profitable for arms manufacturers. So why would the greedy want anything that would prevent that.

Was there any merit in his idea on the death ray, i mean if it was a feasable invention you would think someone would have developed it since then?