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Who Was Nikola Tesla Is An American Inventor

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Who do you think of when you hear the word genius? You most likely think of Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, or another famous name that we hear throughout our lives. However, I doubt Nikola Tesla comes to your mind. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor in the 1880s, whose advances in electrical technology rivaled those of Thomas Edison. Tesla had one of the greatest minds in recorded history, so why isn’t he as well known as these other so called geniuses? Who exactly was Nikola Tesla, not only as an inventor, but as a person? Nikola Tesla was born to Djuka Mandic and Milutin Tesla on July 9th or 10th in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia (part of the Austrian Empire at the time). Tesla’s father was an Orthodox priest and a writer. As Tesla grew up, his father tried to convince him to follow in his footsteps and join the priesthood. Tesla, however, was uninterested in being like his father and instead found a love in science. This love most likely came from his mother. Though she was illiterate and uneducated, she often made small inventions to help her around the household. In the 1870s, Tesla studied at …show more content…

His company was chosen over Edison's to power the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Tesla got the opportunity to demonstrate the wonders of his alternating current technology. In 1895, Tesla finally got the opportunity to make his ideas about alternating current technology a reality. He was asked to create a generator that could use Niagara Falls’ energy to power Buffalo, New York. This put Tesla’’s company far ahead of Edison’s. Funny enough, Edison started to put alternating current technology in his own power station. In other words, the idea he had denied for years had become part of his

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