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
Nikola Tesla was originally from Croatia but then moved to the United States in 1884. He there created the first ever Air Conditioner motor in New York also where he met Thomas Edison his future rival. One day Nikola Tesla was walking somewhere with sand and then his idea popped into his head. He was thinking about a brushless Air Conditioner making the first sketches of its rotating electromagnets in the sand. During 1887 and 1888 Nikola Tesla’s work caught the attention of George Westinghouse, the
When Tesla was younger he was always recognized as extremely smart person. He was born with an extraordinary memory and was able to speak 8 languages. After college,” At the age of 28 Tesla decided to leave Europe for America”(“Nikola Tesla” bio.com). When he got there he only had 4 pennies. When he was looking for work Edison hired him, “and the two men were soon working tirelessly alongside each other”(“Nikola Tesla” bio.com). Eventually the two men started to split apart as they had different views on AC currents and DC
On July 10, 1856 the world was blessed with one of the most innovative minds mankind had ever known. Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary scientist whose ideas in the field of electrical engineering changed the life of the American people forever. From humble beginnings the Serbian immigrant traveled to the United States where his brilliance landed him in the presence of such powerful American businessmen as Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and J.P. Morgan. While Tesla displayed a keen ability to visualize and create the ideas in his mind, he never developed a desire for wealth, other than to fund his life’s work. As a result, he failed to keep patents on many of his inventions and ultimately became an unrecognizable penniless
Tesla explored many things, the one he is most famous for is finding a way to transmit electricity wirelessly to the entire world. This plan and design actually worked except the fact Thomas Edision despised his plans and put a stop to it. The pro would be Free energy for everyone on earth... The downfall of course would be energy and electric companies making no money, and
As a young man, Nikola Tesla found himself at both the Technical University of Graz studying math and physics and the University of Prague studying philosophy. He was a very inventive person from a young age. For instance, while on a walk in 1882 he came up with the idea for a brushless AC motor. The first sketches were drawn in the sand along the path he was taking.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an inventor and is responsible for the world as we know it. He developed alternating current, the Tesla coil, and wireless connectivity. Today he is regarded as one of the most important geniuses in history, but while he was alive, his ideas were largely unsupported.
When Tesla was a young lad he was always thinking about the future as shown by Ronald H. Bailey, ‘“ Someday I’ll harness that power,”’ said Tesla when he saw a picture of Niagara Falls as a boy” (Bailey 6). Nikola Tesla was a brilliant innovative man from the time he was a boy, he was already thinking of his future as well as future technology. He thought of things even as a boy that had not been dreamed possible and are still functioning to this day. Nikola Tesla was an important and innovative figure in American history because he embodied our future, was passionate about his work and created systems that no one ever thought possible, some of which are favored to this very day.
Tesla’s purpose was to explore electricity and later to rival Thomas Edison. Wiki states, Tesla ended up coming to america and later abandon his mentor because he was turned down for money to make a new and better motor. In later years Tesla almost changed every city and town in the world because he created the alternating current. The alternating current is an electrical current system that we still use
For one, one of his life goals was to make a hydra plant using the water flow from Niagara Falls to make electricity, and this goal was eventually achieved. Because of Tesla and Edison constant rivalry, one of his goals was to surpass him and always best him in his inventions. The world at the time always saw those two as competitors against each other. He wanted to share his inventions with the world so that electricity could do whatever humanity wanted it to do, and to make the world a better place. He always wanted to build a “Death Ray” machine that could shoot lasers at any threat, but he later learned that it was not practical.
Few people know his name today, and even those who do the words Nikola Tesla are likely to come up with the image of a crackpot rather than an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has known. He was is without a doubt a genius who isn’t only credited with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes world transforming that are even amazing by today’s standards.
Edison was the most famous of the three as he had developed the first practical light bulb in the late 1870's. Although Edison and Tesla had worked together, Tesla helping to perfect Edison's designs while also promoting his own, they conflicted and eventually separated. This was partly due to Edison's concerning thoughts about Tesla's alternating current system. Using propaganda tactics as Edison felt threatened by Tesla's alternating current system as it could distribute current over longer distances more economically, Edison slandered alternating current by saying it was more dangerous by publically electrocuting animals and suggesting that Tesla's system should be used as the new form of execution for inmates on death row rather than the traditional hanging as it was the faster, more deadly option compared to its predecessor. In the end Edison lost the "war" as Westinghouse, the company using the alternating current systems, won the contract to supply electricity to the "1893 World's Fair in Chicago". This showcase became the launching pad for Tesla's system as it allowed for the accomplishment of building a hydro-electric power plant at Niagara Falls in 1896. This achievement is informally know as the end of the "War of Currents" as alternating current became the official electric power for all industries. w as the end of the "War of Currents" as alternating current became the official electric power for all
He also partially invented many other devices that were perfected by other inventors who got the credit, the most common example is Thomas Edison and the light bulb. Although Tesla did not mind not receiving credit as long as his inventions were being used and improved. Tesla is heroic because without him nothing would be the same due to the reason that he was a genius inventor. Author Elizabeta Ristanović in her article “Tesla’s inventions of importance for medicine: reality or new visions of science” states, “ Tesla was not only the inventor of new type apparatuses, the inventor, but the creator of new
In 1891, at the age of 35, he became a naturalized American citizen. In 1893, at the World's Fair, Tesla and Westinghouse made history by having the first exhibit ever powered by electricity. He demonstrated several things, including the fluorescent light bulb. This was to lead to problems with Edison, as Tesla was in favor of AC power, while Edison was promoting DC power systems.
Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia at midnight between July 9th and 10th 1856. He was intelligent since his early childhood. He soon became interested in engineering and he studied it at the Technical University in Graz, Austria, from 1877 to 1880. Right after that he went to the University of Prague in 1880, but his father had died and he withdrew his studies from the University soon after. Tesla always dreamed of becoming an electrical engineer and to invent a new type of power transmission instead of Direct Current (DC). He mourned for his father for about a year, but he had to return to his work. In 1881 he went to Budapest to work as an engineer for a telephone company, but this isn't what he wanted to in life. Tesla's
thought that the piston motor was more profitable. Nikola Tesla invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic field that made unit drives for machines feasible and made AC power transmission an economic necessity. In 1887 and 1888 Tesla had an experimental shop at 89 Liberty Street, New York, and there he invented the induction motor.