Tesla Westinghouse Comparison
The modern GE Company (General Electric) owes its humble beginnings to the acquisition of Nikola Tesla’s know-how by George Westinghouse. Tesla and Westinghouse together formed a bond to bring alternating current electricity to humanity.
Unlike today, the setting was a time when there were no mass electricity markets, no long distance transmission of electricity, no centralized generating power plants, no billing infrastructure for revenue collection, no reliable way to project the future financial significance of the fortune contained in Tesla’s know-how.
His discoveries were in the same predicament as a ten-pound diamond. No one would question the value of the stone but who would be in a position to purchase it or make any use of it?
Ten Pound Diamond
Tesla Westinghouse Comparison
Here is what happened:
The Year 1888 at South Fifth Avenue, New York City, USA:
Nikola Tesla produced a tidal wave of advancement which carried the electrical world into the opening of the new power age in one grand surge – although it took several years, naturally, for the commercial exploitation to get under way.
Westinghouse had no pet project comparable to the incandescent lamp around which he had to throw protecting conditions such as direct-current limitations, so he could look at the Tesla alternating -current discoveries from an unbiased and purely objective point of view.
He reached his decision a month after attending a Tesla lectrue. Having done this, he forwarded a brief note to Tesla, making an engagement to see him in the latter’s laboratory.
The two had not previously met but each of them was well acquainted with the other’s work. Westinghouse, born in 1846, was ten years older than Tesla. He wa s a short, stout, bearded, impressive-looking individual, and had a habit of directness in conducting his affairs that amounted almost to bluntness. Tesla, thirty-two years old, was tall, dark, handsome, slender and suave.
George Westinghouse left - Nikola Tesla right
Tesla Westinghouse Comparison
Westinghouse was right at home with Tesla and quickly became completely sold on the inventor and his inventions.
So favorably impressed was Westinghouse that he decided to act quickly. The story was related to Tesla’s biographer John J. O’Neill (Prodigal Genius “The Life of Nikola Tesla”) by Tesla as follows:
“I will give you one million dollars cash for your alternating current know-how, plus royalty.” Westinghouse blurted at the starled Tesla.
“If you will make the royalty one dollar per horsepower, I will accept the offer,” Tesla replied.
“Sold,” said Westinghouse. “You will receive a check and a contract in a few days.”
Here was a case of two great men, each possessed with the power of seeing visions of the future on a gigantic panorama, and each with complete faith in the other, arranging a tremendous transaction with utter disregard of details.
Westinghouse agreed with Tesla to come to Pittsburg “at a high salary” for a year, to act as consultant in the commercial application of his inventions. However, there was conflict between the inventor, interested mainly in principles, and engineers interested in practical design problems.
Tesla explained: “I was dependent and could not work. To do creative work I must be completely free. When I became free of that situation ideas and inventions rushed through my brain like a Niagara.”
Conclusion
The last time a person made a breakthrough electricity discovery to match our Clean Electricity From Water breakthrough discovery it was done by the Tesla Electricity Company. In 1888, Nikola Tesla was paid $1,000,000 by George Westinghouse for his know-how and the right to commercialize his invention of alternating-current electricity, plus an ongoing royalty.
Unlike today, the setting was a time when there were no mass electricity markets, no long distance transmission of electricity, no centralized generating power plants, no billing infrastructure for revenue collection, no reliable way to project the future financial significance of the fortune contained in Tesla’s know-how.
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The last time a person made a breakthrough electricity discovery to match our Clean Electricity From Water breakthrough discovery it was done by the Tesla Electricity Company. In 1888, Nikola Tesla was paid $1,000,000 by George Westinghouse for his know-how and the right to commercialize his invention of alternating-current electricity, plus an ongoing royalty. http://www.cleanelectricitycompany.com/tesla-westinghouse-comparison