Nikola Tesla once said, "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine" (Cooper 20). It is unbelievable how Tesla’s innovations impacted the world. He was the first person who efficiently worked in the development of AC (alternate current) motors. It was through his inventions that electricity could be produced using high voltages for long distances. Nikola Tesla was a important and influential figure in history that had a positive impact on the world through the development of alternate current and, in doing so, created a legacy that still endures today.
To begin, Nikola Tesla had a childhood that would inspire him to
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In Budapest, Mr. Tesla's first job was in a government telegraph engineering office, he designed his first creation, a telephone repeater, and developed a plan for a rotating magnetic field ("Nikola Tesla." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale). Tesla was also an employee in Edison's European business in Paris (Bailey). Suddenly, Tesla immigrated to the United States in 1884 ("Nikola Tesla." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale). In June 1884 on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue, Thomas Edison a well-known American inventor met Nikola Tesla a Serbian immigrant who had a dream to change the world through a new study of electricity (Bailey). Tesla had faith on Edison to believe in how to form and produce electricity in a big range through alternating current, but Edison had faith in direct current (Bailey). Edison was against AC (alternate current) because he thought it would be more dangerous than his DC (direct current), and also it could cause death in high voltages (Bailey). Nikola Tesla had hopes to accomplish his …show more content…
Tesla was naturalized American citizen in 1889; he also was an European cosmopolitan who spoke fluently in English, French, German, Italian and his native Serbian ("Nikola Tesla." Biography In Context, Gale; Bailey). Additionally, in lower Manhattan, he founded his work-shop to start working on his AC (alternate current) mechanism that he drew in the ground of Budapest (Bailey). Successfully Tesla created an AC motor and a network that would produce and transfer electrons everywhere (Wasik 3). In the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, he exhibited his AC motor (Bailey). Tesla's lecture interested George Westinghouse, who invented the air brake system and thought that his inventions would transfer and expand energy (Bailey). With most of his attention focused on electrical innovations, Tesla founded the Tesla Electric Company in 1887 ("Nikola Tesla." Biography In Context, Gale). Eventually, Tesla's association with Westinghouse led him to the opportunity to build the very first hydroelectric generating plant in Niagara Falls; the plant transmitted electrical current to the cities of Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and New York ("Nikola Tesla." Biography In Context, Gale). In late 1895, the Niagara power plant was finalized, leading Tesla's polyphase system of alternating current to a new power system that after all would be used in the USA and the rest of the world ("Nikola Tesla." Biography In Context,
Nikola Tesla is a man that many individuals associate with brilliance. Moreover, Tesla is a name that ignites impulses within an individual’s brain which illuminate, via bio-circuitry, the thought association of Tesla and brilliance, similar to the force we term as electricity. Brilliance however, shouldn’t be the only descriptive word to come to mind when thinking of one of the greatest engineers and inventors to live. Innovation and determination should be undoubtedly included in the list of descriptive words of Mr. Nikola Tesla. For without the innovative mind of Tesla, midcentury inventions as well as current technological advances would be nonexistent, or worse, credited to Thomas Edison.
Nikola Tesla (Physicist, Inventor, Futurist) – Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American electrical engineer, inventor, physicist, futurist and mechanical engineer who was recognized for his assistance in the proposal of alternating current (AC) for the system of electricity. He was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Austrian Empire which is presently known as Croatia. His father was named Milutin Tesla and was an Orthodox Priest. While his mother, Duka Tesla, was good in making home mechanical appliances, craft tools and has the skill to memorize Serbian poems.
In the 1880s, there was a war going on in the United States. Backstabbing, secrecy, and death were common. However, this war had no weapons. It was a dual between two geniuses. These two men are the fathers of modern technology. The War of Currents was a battle between the famous inventor Thomas Edison, and the mysterious genius Nikola Tesla. Tesla and Edison engaged in an epic competition to create the most efficient, cheap, usable form of electricity. Everyone knows who Thomas Edison was, but not many people know of Nikola Tesla. Tesla was an unappreciated mastermind who changed the world with his inventions, performed many strange experiments, and practically invented usable electricity.
When two great minds clash, the entire world takes notice. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla are both known for their ingenious brilliance, their innovation, and their impact on the electrical industry, and although they are both well-known inventors in their own right, the main event that brought their fame to its peak was the “War of
During the late 1800’s there were two men who both started to mess with the power of electricity there was Edison and Nikola Tesla. Edison was the first man to create the electrical system, but according to Tesla the way Edison’s system was designed and had flaws that that Tesla didn’t agree with. Edison’s idea is still used to this day but now has the improvements that were given by Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla was born in Smijan, Croatia in 1856 to a mother named Djuka Mandic who was also an inventor for small appliances and a father named Milutin Tesla who was a man of the priesthood. As a young boy is was influenced and great deal by his mother in the world of inventing and started to help his mother with her inventions.
"Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle. Yes, so far reaching is his work that it has become the warp and woof of industry... His name marks an epoch in the advance of electrical science.
He was an inventor who made many things that are used in our daily life today. His biggest major breakthrough was discovered Alternating current. Some believed that AC was far dangerous to have in their homes, but he proved them wrong when he sent AC through his body and animal´s bodies and proved that it was safe. Nikola Tesla's discovery of Alternating Current is still used today to provide power to the United States. Another famous invention he made was the radio. The radio has been used ever since it has been invented. It was a luxury to have when it was first released, but they are now common items. They are in every car to play music or play talk shows which have made car rides much more pleasant. Afterwards, Tesla created the remote control. The inventor made a remote-controlled boat to demonstrate his breakthrough but, this had little use at the time (West). Now, they control everything from military tanks, fighter jets and boats to kids toy cars. The brilliant inventor also played a big role in discovering X-Rays. The reason why he wasn’t credited with discovering it is because almost all of his work was destroyed when his laboratory in New York burned down. He was the first to bring up the possibility of x-rays hurting us if we are unprotected from it’s radiation, in addition to discovering it (Hrabak, Maja et. al). X-rays are used every day by doctors to produce images of organs, tissue and bones. Without the technological breakthroughs that Nikola Tesla made the United
One of these people was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian – American inventor, which revolutionized his time period. Nikola tesla is considered to be one of the most important scientist of all time. He invented things such as the remote control, wireless telegraph, and alternating current (which is the improvement to the dynamo). When tesla was in college, he saw how inefficient the dynamo was and decided that he could improve the efficiency and cheapen the machine. He said that the direct current was not a really good idea because at some time the poles would change and if the poles switches they would have to restart and that is not good thing, so he proposed the alternating current. The alternating current works through a system that occurs because of magnetism. In this new model of the dynamo the rotor inside moves in circles generating electricity without switching the poles and therefore it makes the machine more efficient and cheaper. The alternating current invented by Nikola Tesla was rode way to technology that we use today like the automobile and the
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist. He was also considered an eccentric genius and recluse. Tesla is best known for his feud with Thomas Edison over AC power Versus DC Power. He was also well known for inventing the Tesla Coil which is still used in radio technology today. Nikola Tesla was mostly forgotten until the 1990’s when there was a resurgence of interest in popular culture.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric man that was many lifetimes ahead of his generation. He was a man that dreamed of giving the world an unlimited supply of wireless energy. His genius imagination allowed him to think outside the box and solve issues that others had thought were unsolvable. Nikola Tesla proposed his vision for a system powered by an alternating current generator to Thomas Edison and was shot down because Thomas Edison’s power structure had already been established using a direct current system. The two butt heads however Nikola Tesla was relentless. After being used and rejected by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla picked himself and went toe to toe with the most prolific inventor. The stage for David vs Goliath was set. Through Nikola Tesla’s borderline obsession to solve the design for an alternating current motor and sacrificing his own opportunity to become a wealthy man, we now live in a very efficient world where everyone reaps the rewards of his genius, few know his name, and even fewer know what he did.
("Nikola Tesla." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2013.) While Tesla was working at Edison's company he was take advantage of him, Edison would take his ideas and would not give credit to Tesla. One day Edison offered Tesla fifty thousand dollars if he could be able to redesign Edison's DC dynamos but when Tesla had completed his task he was not given his fifty thousand dollars and told “Tesla you don't understand our American Humor,” after that Tesla had quit the company for a better future ("Nikola Tesla." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d.)
that was with him. Later on he joined Edison’s continental company in Paris. He made a
Imagine a world by candlelight or inefficient and or dangerous incandescent or arc lamps, a world without practical electricity, transformers, and many other things necessary for modern life that most take for granted or haven’t even heard of. This could be the scary reality we may live in if it wasn’t for an ingenious inventor named Nikola Tesla. With at least 278 patents to his name, Nikola Tesla changed the world through the application and use of his inventions. Despite all this, he wound up penniless, alone, and rejected while others were making the equivalent of millions with his inventions, only becoming a common household name by around the 2000s. Any and everyone should be able to state, with complete certainty, that Nikola Tesla is
Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the most influential inventors and innovators of the Twentieth Century. Edison’s efforts ushered in a new era of technology; a world in which electricity would be harnessed and made to bow before man’s will. Walter Lippman wrote, “It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up the specific inventions with which his name is associated” (qtd. in Baldwin 409). Edison’s decades long career was a synergistic melding of his success as an inventor and his prowess as a promoter and businessman. He exemplified the ideals of intelligence married to hard work and perseverance. He forever changed the landscape of American invention and the limits of technological change (Baldwin 409).
Nikola tesla was a brilliant scientist and researcher, eager to discover new things. He was unwilling to accept that something could not be done, and his career was filled with examples of his discoveries that did just that.