History Of Yesterday: July 10
INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA WAS BORN
July 10, 1856
Today is the 165th birthday of one of history’s most famous inventors Nikola Tesla. In 1856, Nikola Tesla, a Serbian, was born in a small town of Smiljan, Croatia, a former territory of the Austrian Empire, and the fourth of five children of an Eastern Orthodox priest, Milutin Tesla and Đuka Mandić.
After attending elementary and secondary school in the town where Nikola's father served as a priest, he contracted cholera that nearly killed Nikola. He fled military conscription, and at the age of 19 he took an electrical engineering course at the Polytechnic Institute of Graz in Austria, which although an excellent student and sometimes arguing with his professors, he became obsessed with gambling. Tesla and did not finish his course.
He moved to Budapest, Hungary which was also the territory of the Austrian Empire, carrying an idea about electromagnetic fields and an electric motor powered by two different currents, something that had not been invented at the time. It was 1884 when he moved to the United States where he met the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who promised to pay him when Tesla repaired the DC generator Edison had made. Unfortunately, Tesla was not paid even though he did Edison’s favor, so he worked for the Western Union company, where he designed the AC power generator that is still in use today.
Later, this invention was certified by Tesla, so that even the Westinghouse company, which was the company where Edison worked, had also invested for Tesla’s invention. So what Edison used to deceive is that he is now beating him in the AC-DC competition.
He even invented the so-called "Tesla Coil", which could produce a very strong voltage of electricity, and was discovered to be able to send and receive radio signals as well. In fact, Tesla itself was the first to conceptualize a wireless radio communication. A wealthy American businessman J.P. Morgan of a whopping 150,000 US dollars for Tesla to build a huge communication tower. Tesla is confident that the tower will be a success, but Tesla is running out of money to continue the project, while investors are turning to another Italian wireless pioneer, Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was successful with his invention, and the Tesla project was ahead, so Marconi went for certification for wireless communication. Tesla even appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that didn’t stop Marconi’s reputation from rising.
The Wardenclyffe Tower which was supposed to be a symbolism of Tesla's success is just a reminder of Tesla's failure to fulfill his dream. The tower was demolished in 1917. For the second time, Tesla failed again in life, causing his loneliness and isolation to many people. He was diagnosed with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and in the last years of Tesla's life he lived in an apartment in New York City in America, with his pet pigeons.
In 1931, on his 75th birthday Time Magazine commemorated his achievements in the field of invention over the past decades. The New York Times also reported Tesla’s invention of a very powerful anti-aircraft weapon “Death Beam”, which Tesla again hoped would be funded, but also to no avail. The Soviet Union gave him a $ 25,000 investment for the project but it was also scrapped. Tesla died a poor and lonely life at the age of 86 on January 7, 1943.
Long forgotten, public interest in Tesla revived when a unit of measurement of magnetic flux density was named after him in 1960.
References:
King, G. (2013, February 4). The rise and fall of Nikola Tesla ad his tower. Retrieved from Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../the-rise-and-fall-of.../
Wikipedia
COMMITTED AS WAR SHIP BY PHILIPPINE NAVY AND BRP JOSE RIZAL
July 10, 2020
A year ago, a guided missile frigate from South Korea was commissioned as a new warship by our Philippine Navy. This ship was named BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), which belongs to the Jose Rizal-class frigate unit of our Navy.
This warship was named after our National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal, designed and built by Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea, was adapted from the Incheon-class frigates of the South Korean navy, but several revisions were made to it. It is one of two warships purchased by our government in October 2016 for eight billion pesos, in addition to the ship named after General Antonio Luna, as part of our navy’s naval assets modernization program, which began during by former President Benigno Aquino III.
It took almost a year to build the ship and on May 23, just last year when this ship arrived in our country, carrying 65 Filipino crew led by Captain Jerry Garido, Jr. The said ship also created controversy due to the alleged interference of then special assistant to the President Christopher "Bong" Go in the purchase of Combat Management Systems (CMS) of two frigates worth 15 billion pesos.
It measures 105 meters long, 13 meters wide and 7 meters high from the keel to the top deck, and weighs 2,600 tons. It also has four diesel generators with a power of 625 kW, capable of running the ship to a distance of 8,300 km at a speed of 25 knots. It is also armed with a 76 mm main gun, 30 mm auxiliary gun, two anti-submarine torpedo launchers and various types of missile systems, which are set to be placed on the ship in the coming months. It is also capable of carrying a naval helicopter and it also has high-caliber and state-of-the-art radar systems capable of absorbing submarine hazards under the sea.
BRP Jose Rizal and BRP Antonio Luna, who arrived in our country on February 26, are among the Philippine warships that can be deployed in combat patrol and anti-submarine operations to guard our West Philippine Sea.
References:
Gotinga, J. (2020, July 11). PH Navy christens first-ever brand new frigate, BRP Jose Rizal. Retrieved from Rappler: https://www.rappler.com/nation/philippine-navy-christens-frigate-brp-jose-rizal?fbclid=IwAR2w0q9MJvSjvaC-DzsxlhF3iJbfL-V5qDixryGfNnkBri8EAmEpSwWspkE
Wikipedia
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE FRANCHISE REFUSES TO GIVE ABS-CBN BAGON PARANGKISA
July 10, 2020
By a vote of 70 against 11, the Philippine House of Representatives approved the new franchise of ABS-CBN on this day alone last year. Once again, one of the oldest broadcasting networks in our country has lost hope of returning to free TV.
According to the House Committee on Legislative Franchise, which led the deliberations for the re-franchising of the said network, ABS-CBN found violations of its franchise provisions, but insisted that it had nothing to do with suppressing freedom of the press. in the country, as argued by opponents of the closure of ABS-CBN. Aside from the allegations of improper tax payment, the committee also questioned the citizenship of Eugenio Lopez, III, who is the chairman of ABS-CBN, due to his dual citizenship, something that is illegal to own. a natural Filipino owns any network in the country.
It will be recalled that on May 5 last year, ABS-CBN completely disappeared from television and radio airs when its 25-year franchise expired. This is the first time the network has been shut down after Martial Law.
Malacañang continued to insist that President Rodrigo Duterte had nothing to do with the closure of the network, although he has said several times that he will not give up the network's franchise because ABS-CBN did not air his Presidential campaign ad in 2016, and in criticisms of his “war on drugs”.
References:
Cepeda, M. (2020, July 10). House committee rejects franchise for ABS-CBN. Retrieved from Rappler: https://www.rappler.com/nation/house-committee-rejects-franchise-abs-cbn?fbclid=IwAR36mY9I73DGNeFg65dgaZxk6vjPCkhs8QiWQovU6Dvs8vEpZbRivnHGCkw
AMERICAN HISTORIAN WILLIAM HENRY SCOTT WAS BORN
July 10, 1921
Today is the centenary birthday of one of the great historians in our country, although he is not a Filipino, William Henry Scott of the United States. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and was baptized as Henry King Ahrens.
His interest in archeology and history blossomed when he attended Cranbook School in Michigan. It was 1939 when he changed his name to William Henry Scott and became a member of the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, and returned to service for the Korean War in 1951. Scott served as a missionary for the Episcopalian Church in China until 1949, when the communism there.
He studied Chinese at Yale University in America, and in 1953 he became a lay missionary again of the Episcopalian Church, when here in Sagada, Mountain Province he settled, along with the native Kankanaey. He studied the way of life, culture of the natives there, and collected it in his academic works such as Prehispanic Source Materials and Discovery of the Igorots. When he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy at UST he published a dissertation Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History. More importantly, he was one of those who refuted "historical" evidences that proved to be hoaxes, such as the Kalantiaw Code allegedly written in the 15th century by a Datu Kalantiaw in the Visayas, which was in fact fabricated- by a Jose Marco in 1913.
When President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, Scott was accused of sympathizing with the communists, and was temporarily imprisoned for being a critic of the Marcos regime, but was also acquitted in 1973. He continued to join the resistance of the native Igorot. and Kankanaey in the Marcos regime.
William Henry Scott died at the age of 73 on October 4, 1993 in St. Louis. Luke's Medical Center.
References:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Scott_(historian)?fbclid=IwAR3pN3SsP-RRIzVZbbct21_Tbb_qy96wkgNY0k-lm4s6YYhM73JryK7xIy0
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