Nikola Tesl A Brief Biography Of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and a physicist who made dozens of production, transmission and application of electric power. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His father was a priest in the Serbian orthodox church and his mother only managed the farms their family had. He was famous and respected but he was never able to translate or explain his inventions. During the 1870’s Tesla moved to Budapest where he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange, it was also where the idea was introduced for the induction motor first came to Tesla, but after the age of 28 and gaining interest Tesla decided to leave Europe and move to America. Nikola Tesla studied Math and Physics at the Technical University of Graz and Philosophy at the University of Prague. He would spend his six years of life “thinking” about electromagnetic fields and hypothetical motor powered by alternate-current that would or should work.

In addition, with the funding from a group of investors that included financial giant J.P. Morgan, in 1901 Tesla began to work on a project, which was designing and building a lab with a power plant and massive transmission tower on Long Island, New York, which was known as Wardenclyffe. By 1912, Tesla began to withdraw from that doubting the world. He clearly started showing signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was potentially a high functioning autistic. With this in mind, he became very obsessed with cleanliness. He would shake hands with people and then wash his hands more. He would have 18 napkins on his table during every meal, and would count every step he takes whenever he walked somewhere. He also claimed to have abnormal sensitivity to sounds as well as sense of