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How Did Nikola Tesla Contribute To The World

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In 1884, Serbian migrant Nikola Tesla landed in America. Tesla was full of thoughts and ideas that would eventually help the U.S.A as well as the rest of world. Nikola Tesla was the inventor of the Alternating Current (AC) light and different power systems that are currently used all over the world. Three of Nikola Tesla's most well known and most useful inventions are:
1. Rotating magnetic field.
2. Wireless or radio broadcasts.
3. Wireless transmission of electricity to any point on the earth.
Before his arrival in the U.S., Nikola worked for a year at the French branch of the Edison Electric Light Co. At that time, the most famous inventor in the world was named Thomas Alva Edison. Edison was credited with the invention of the DC dynamo and the electric light …show more content…

Tesla worked for many months and solved the problems Edison was having with his devices. Unfortunately, Edison did not pay Tesla and for a few thousand dollars they lost the ability to acquire control of the greatest and one of the most profitable invention ever, (O' Neill, p. 58).
Inventor and Westinghouse Company owner, George Westinghouse, brought Tesla's system to the world. This started what became known in U.S. history as the War of the Currents, or the battles between AC and DC. Westinghouse’s choice to adopt Tesla's AC system changed the world forever.
Westinghouse offered to buy all the AC patents from Tesla for the staggering sum of 1 million dollars cash and royalties of $1.00 per horsepower of electricity produced. This determination to give the world AC, put Tesla and Westinghouse on a collision course with J.P. Morgan and Edison. By 1897, the War of the Currents between AC and DC or between Westinghouse and Edison continued unabated. In 1895, Tesla's laboratory in New York City was totally destroyed by

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