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Nikola_Tesla

Two days later, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. Tesla's entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker and other New York City hotels was transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under the Office of Alien Property (OAP) seal. John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the Tesla items in OAP custody. After a three-day investigation, Trump's report concluded that there was nothing which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands, stating:

Question: What were John G. Trump's qualifications for examining Tesla's property?

Question: How much of Tesla's property was taken by the Alien Property Custodian?

Question: Who authorized custody of Tesla's property by the Office of Alien Property?

Question: What does the third letter of "OAP" refer to?

Question: Where was Tesla's estate located?

Question: Where was Tesla's estate?

Question: What does the second letter of "OAP" refer to?

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Question: From what properties was Tesla's property taken?

Question: Why shouldn't Tesla's personal property have been taken by the Alien Property Custodian?
Nikola_Tesla

In July 1888, Brown and Peck negotiated a licensing deal with George Westinghouse for Tesla's polyphase induction motor and transformer designs for $60,000 in cash and stock and a royalty of $2.50 per AC horsepower produced by each motor. Westinghouse also hired Tesla for one year for the large fee of $2,000 ($52,700 in today's dollars) per month to be a consultant at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs.

Question: What was Tesla paid by Westinghouse without inflation to current day?

Question: What happened before the 20th century regarding Tesla's invention?

Question: What was desired by Brown?

Question: Who was in charge of Tesla's designs?

Question: What did Tesla make as an employee of Westinghouse in their dollars?

Question: What was the residual income on the transaction?
Nikola_Tesla

In 1873, Tesla returned to his birthtown, Smiljan. Shortly after he arrived, Tesla contracted cholera; he was bedridden for nine months and was near death multiple times. Tesla's father, in a moment of despair, promised to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness (his father had originally wanted him to enter the priesthood).

Question: What made Tesla's father make a promise?

Question: How sick was Tesla while bedridden?

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Question: What did Tesla's father wish for Tesla?

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Question: To whom was the promise made?

Question: What might happen to Tesla when he was sick

Question: What was Tesla interested in that his father didn't want him to do?

Question: What was the relationship to Tesla of the other man mentioned in this paragraph?

Question: What made Tesla's father offer him engineering school/

Question: What was the condition of the promise made by Tesla's father?

Question: What did Tesla do while he was ill?

Question: What was the danger that Tesla faced several times?
Nikola_Tesla

At the beginning of 1893 Westinghouse engineer Benjamin Lamme had made great progress developing an efficient version of Tesla's induction motor and Westinghouse Electric started branding their complete polyphase phase AC system as the "Tesla Polyphase System", noting how they believed Tesla's patents gave them patent priority over other AC systems.

Question: What was Tesla's motor once Benjamin implemented his touch?

Question: How was Lamme's induction motor better than the motor of the person who filed a patent? It was more

Question: When in 1893 was Benjamin helping to bring Tesla's vision to life?

Question: The company called Lamme what?

Question: When in 1893 did this occur?

Question: What document let Westinghouse have priority over others?
Nikola_Tesla

In the August 1917 edition of the magazine Electrical Experimenter Tesla postulated that electricity could be used to locate submarines via using the reflection of an "electric ray" of "tremendous frequency," with the signal being viewed on a fluorescent screen (a system that has been noted to have a superficial resemblance to modern radar). Tesla was incorrect in his assumption that high frequency radio waves would penetrate water but Émile Girardeau, who helped develop France's first radar system in the 1930s, noted in 1953 that Tesla's general speculation that a very strong high frequency signal would be needed was correct stating "(Tesla) was prophesying or dreaming, since he had at his disposal no means of carrying them out, but one must add that if he was dreaming, at least he was dreaming correctly.":266

Question: What as the result of Tesla's assumption about high frequency radio waves?

Question: Accoring to Girardeau, in what way did Tesla dream?

Question: Which edition of the magazine did Tesla state what electricity could be used for?

Question: Who made notes on Tesla's ideas, Tesla or Girardeau?

Question: What had to ocur to the electric ray to allow the location of submarines?

Question: Who postulated what electricity could be used for?

Question: What had a superficial resemblance to a modern radar?
Nikola_Tesla

During the same year, Tesla wrote a treatise, The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media, concerning charged particle beam weapons. Tesla published the document in an attempt to expound on the technical description of a "superweapon that would put an end to all war." This treatise is currently in the Nikola Tesla Museum archive in Belgrade. It describes an open-ended vacuum tube with a gas jet seal that allows particles to exit, a method of charging particles to millions of volts, and a method of creating and directing non-dispersive particle streams (through electrostatic repulsion). Tesla tried to interest the US War Department, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia in the device.

Question: What was the only place that wasn't a country that Tesla wanted to have interest in the device?

Question: When was the treatise in Belgrade?

Question: What part of the museum is Tesla's treatise in?

Question: How did Tesla create his treatise?
Nikola_Tesla

Many of Tesla's writings are freely available on the web, including the article "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy," published in The Century Magazine in 1900, and the article "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency," published in his book Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla.

Question: A book is full of?

Question: The activity Tesla did was?
Nikola_Tesla

Tesla worked every day from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. or later, with dinner from exactly 8:10 p.m., at Delmonico's restaurant and later the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Tesla would telephone his dinner order to the headwaiter, who also could be the only one to serve him. "The meal was required to be ready at eight o'clock ... He dined alone, except on the rare occasions when he would give a dinner to a group to meet his social obligations. Tesla would then resume his work, often until 3:00 a.m.":283, 286

Question: What was the name of the location where Tesla first began ordering his meals from?

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Nikola_Tesla

In 1899, John Jacob Astor IV invested $100,000 for Tesla to further develop and produce a new lighting system. Instead, Tesla used the money to fund his Colorado Springs experiments.

Question: Where did Tesla get the funds for his experiments?

Question: What did Astor think was going to happen with the money?

Question: Which project did Tesla place priority in?

Question: What did Astor do with his money?

Question: What was the relation of John Jacob Astor IV with Tesla?

Question: How was John Jacob Astor IV's purpose violated?
Nikola_Tesla

On 11 July 1934, the New York Herald Tribune published an article on Tesla, in which he recalled an event that would occasionally take place while experimenting with his single-electrode vacuum tubes; a minute particle would break off the cathode, pass out of the tube, and physically strike him. "Tesla said he could feel a sharp stinging pain where it entered his body, and again at the place where it passed out." In comparing these particles with the bits of metal projected by his "electric gun," Tesla said, "The particles in the beam of force ... will travel much faster than such particles ... and they will travel in concentrations."

Question: what type of thing did Tesla remember?

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Question: What did Tesla compare to the tiny piece of the cathode that hit him?

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Question: What physical item caused Tesla to experience a sharp stinging pain?

Question: where was the second area the particle caused sensation for Tesla?
Nikola_Tesla

In 1888, the editor of Electrical World magazine, Thomas Commerford Martin (a friend and publicist), arranged for Tesla to demonstrate his alternating current system, including his induction motor, at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE). Engineers working for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company reported to George Westinghouse that Tesla had a viable AC motor and related power system — something for which Westinghouse had been trying to secure patents. Westinghouse looked into getting a patent on a similar commutator-less, rotating magnetic field-based induction motor presented in a paper in March 1888 by the Italian physicist Galileo Ferraris, but decided Tesla's patent would probably control the market.

Question: According to Westinghouse, which scientist held the patent advantage?

Question: Who brought Tesla to Westinghouse's attention?

Question: How did the engineers describe Tesla's system?
Nikola_Tesla

During his time at his lab, Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver which he concluded may be communications from another planet. He mentioned them in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne at the Philadelphia North American on 8 December 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about possible discoveries in the new century to the Red Cross Society where he referred to messages "from another world" that read "1... 2... 3...". Reporters treated it as a sensational story and jumped to the conclusion Tesla was hearing signals from Mars. He expanded on the signals he heard in a 9 February 1901 Collier's Weekly article "Talking With Planets" where he said it had not been immediately apparent to him that he was hearing "intelligently controlled signals" and that the signals could come from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It has been hypothesized that he may have intercepted Marconi's European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have transmitted the letter S (dot/dot/dot) in a naval demonstration, the same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals from another experimenter in wireless transmission.

Question: Where did he think the signals were coming from?

Question: What did the "1...2...3..." most likely mean?

Question: Who did Tesla think was sending him signals?

Question: Which planet did Tesla believe was trying to communicate with him?

Question: What types of signals were his receiver getting?

Question: What did Julian do for a living?

Question: What did Tesla mention to Julian in a letter?

Question: What was Marconi doing when he sent out the signals possibly received by Tesla?
Nikola_Tesla

Tesla could be harsh at times and openly expressed disgust for overweight people, such as when he fired a secretary because of her weight.:110 He was quick to criticize clothing; on several occasions, Tesla directed a subordinate to go home and change her dress.:33

Question: Along with criticizing individuals for their  clothing, what else did Tesla criticize according to the passage?

Question: What emotion did Telsa show for individuals he found not to be of healthy weights?

Question: Aside from his discriminatory practices against overweight individuals, what other questionable examples are provided of Tesla's harshness?

Question: How does the reader know that Tesla was not ashamed of his views aside from the examples mentioned?

Question: In regards to the choice of clothes a worker may wear under his employement, Tesla would act to what speed to address his concerns?

Question: The emotions and thoughts Tesla held towards heavier individuals were often expressed in what regard?
Nikola_Tesla

During the period in which the negotiations were being conducted, Tesla said that efforts had been made to steal the invention. His room had been entered and his papers had been scrutinized, but the thieves, or spies, left empty-handed. He said that there was no danger that his invention could be stolen, for he had at no time committed any part of it to paper; the blueprint for the teleforce weapon was all in his mind.

Question: What efforts were made to steal from Tesla?

Question: Where was Tesla's invention located?

Question: What did Tesla think thieves wanted to steal specifically?

Question: Where was Tesla when efforts were made to steal his teleforce weapon?

Question: could the plans have been taken?

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Question: Where did Tesla keep the plans?

Question: Why didn't Tesla have his blueprint on paper?
Nikola_Tesla

Tesla was offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison Company's direct current generators. In 1885, he said that he could redesign Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both service and economy. According to Tesla, Edison remarked, "There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you—if you can do it.":54–57 :64 This has been noted as an odd statement from an Edison whose company was stingy with pay and who did not have that sort of cash on hand. After months of work, Tesla fulfilled the task and inquired about payment. Edison, saying that he was only joking, replied, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor.":64  Instead, Edison offered a US$10 a week raise over Tesla's US$18 per week salary; Tesla refused the offer and immediately resigned.

Question: Who said "There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you, Tesla or Edison?

Question: Who, between Tesla and Edison, was NOT offered a $10 raise?

Question: Which of the following did Tesla not promise to improve: service, pay or economy?

Question: What did Tesla do after Einsten offered him fifty thousand dollars to redesign his motor and generators?

Question: What level of compensation did Edison provide his employees?

Question: What did Edison claim about his promise to pay Tesla fifty thousand dollars?

Question: Why was it unlikely that Edison could pay Tesla 50,000?

Question: Which was lower, the proposed raise or Tesla's base salary?

Question: Who, between Edison and Tesla, was NOT mentioned to have a parsimonious company?
Nikola_Tesla

Starting in 1894, Tesla began investigating what he referred to as radiant energy of "invisible" kinds after he had noticed damaged film in his laboratory in previous experiments (later identified as "Roentgen rays" or "X-Rays"). His early experiments were with Crookes tubes, a cold cathode electrical discharge tube. Soon after, much of Tesla's early research—hundreds of invention models, plans, notes, laboratory data, tools, photographs, valued at $50,000—was lost in the 5th Avenue laboratory fire of March 1895. Tesla is quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say?" Tesla may have inadvertently captured an X-ray image—predating, by a few weeks, Wilhelm Röntgen's December 1895 announcement of the discovery of x-rays—when he tried to photograph Mark Twain illuminated by a Geissler tube, an earlier type of gas discharge tube. The only thing captured in the image was the metal locking screw on the camera lens.:134

Question: Which of the following is not a type of tube: Geissler, Twain or Crookes?

Question: Which of the following was a researcher: Mark Twain or Wilhelm Rontgen?

Question: Which of the following is not among the things lost to the fire: notes, tools, or x-rays?
Nikola_Tesla

In 1935, in an annual birthday celebration interview, Tesla announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance, a related new means of communication, and a method of accurately determining the location of underground mineral deposits.

Question: What terrestrial thing did Tesla say would soon be more easily found?

Question: What occasion did Tesla use to announce his new transmission idea?

Question: What is the first part of the announcement made by Tesla?

Question: How could mineral deposits now be located?

Question: How often did Tesla give this type of interview?

Question: What can be moved without having a bunch of it get lost?

Question: What was Tesla enjoying when he made the announcement about energy?

Question: To what was the means of communication connected?

Question: How was the method of determining the location of underground mineral deposits announced?

Question: How was Tesla commemorated each year?

Question: What is the second part of the announcement made by Tesla?

Question: What might transmission of mechanical energy over distance allow?

Question: Where are underground minerals found?
Nikola_Tesla

Tesla was generally antagonistic towards theories about the conversion of matter into energy.:247 He was also critical of Einstein's theory of relativity, saying:

Question: What theory was Tesla condemnatory of that didn't include Einstein?

Question: What did Tesla find unfavorable overall?

Question: Who created the relativity theory?

Question: what was the great scholar's thesis?

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Question: What theory was Tesla critical of, other than Einstein's theory?

Question: asides Einstein's thesis, what was he a critic of ?
Nikola_Tesla

The mid 1890s saw the conglomerate General Electric, backed by financier J. P. Morgan, involved in takeover attempts and patent battles with Westinghouse Electric. Although a patent-sharing agreement was signed between the two companies in 1896 Westinghouse was still cash-strapped from the financial warfare. To secure further loans, Westinghouse was forced to revisit Tesla's AC patent, which bankers considered a financial strain on the company (at that point Westinghouse had paid out an estimated $200,000 in licenses and royalties to Tesla, Brown, and Peck). In 1897, Westinghouse explained his financial difficulties to Tesla in stark terms, saying that if things continue the way they were he would no longer be in control of Westinghouse Electric and Tesla would have to "deal with the bankers" to try to collect future royalties. Westinghouse convinced Tesla to release his company from the licensing agreement over Tesla's AC patents in exchange for Westinghouse Electric purchasing the patents for a lump sum payment of $216,000; this provided Westinghouse a break from what, due to alternating current's rapid gain in popularity, had turned out to be an overly generous $2.50 per AC horsepower royalty.

Question: Which of the following is not a company: General Electric, J. P. Morgan or Westinghouse Electric?

Question: Why did Westinghouse tell Tesla that he  would have to deal with bankers?

Question: How did Tesla make money?

Question: What cost more, licenses and royalties up to 1897, or the lump sum payment to Tesla?
Rhine

Until the early 1980s, industry was a major source of water pollution. Although many plants and factories can be found along the Rhine up into Switzerland, it is along the Lower Rhine that the bulk of them are concentrated, as the river passes the major cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Duisburg. Duisburg is the home of Europe's largest inland port and functions as a hub to the sea ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amsterdam. The Ruhr, which joins the Rhine in Duisburg, is nowadays a clean river, thanks to a combination of stricter environmental controls, a transition from heavy industry to light industry and cleanup measures, such as the reforestation of Slag and brownfields. The Ruhr currently provides the region with drinking water. It contributes 70 m3/s (2,500 cu ft/s) to the Rhine. Other rivers in the Ruhr Area, above all, the Emscher, still carry a considerable degree of pollution.

Question: The river that empties into the North Sea is called?

Question: Which river that flows through West Germany would not be safe to drink from?

Question: What area on the rhine has another river that the slag and brownfields helped to restore to it's former cleanliness?

Question: Stricter environmental controls and cleanup efforts helped make the Ruhr into what?

Question: Which moving body of water is considered today to be absent of a notable amount of pollution?

Question: What runs through Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Cologne?

Question: The initiatives that lowered pollution in the Ruhr river included actions to increase the amount of trees and plant life in developed industry areas, also known as what?

Question: Which river that travels to West Germany is still used today as a source of potable water?

Question: What is along the Lower Rhine in Duisburg?

Question: Where on the Rhine river did most of the heavy industry occur?

Question: What area on the rhine has another river that the slag and brownfields did not help to restore to it's former cleanliness?

Question: What city on the rhine has another river that the slag and brownfields helped to restore to it's former cleanliness?

Question: What river in the Ruhr region is still heavily polluted?
Rhine

The hydrography of the current delta is characterized by the delta's main arms, disconnected arms (Hollandse IJssel, Linge, Vecht, etc.) and smaller rivers and streams. Many rivers have been closed ("dammed") and now serve as drainage channels for the numerous polders. The construction of Delta Works changed the Delta in the second half of the 20th Century fundamentally. Currently Rhine water runs into the sea, or into former marine bays now separated from the sea, in five places, namely at the mouths of the Nieuwe Merwede, Nieuwe Waterway (Nieuwe Maas), Dordtse Kil, Spui and IJssel.

Question: What happens to those rivers that have been closed?

Question: The Rhine is a?

Question: Spui is a?

Question: Which river forms the Delta in this passage?

Question: What is the connection between former marine bays and the sea?

Question: Out of the three elements that characterize the hydrography of the current Delta, which one is not a possible arm?