"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.
From that work has sprung a revolution..." -B.A.
Behrend If you were to go to an encyclopedia and tried to find out who invented the radio, X- rays, and the tube amplifier, this is what you would find: radio was invented by Marconi, X- rays by
Roentgen, and the tube amplifier by de Forest.
While you're there, look to see who invented the fluorescent bulb, neon lights, the speedometer, the basics of radar, and the microwave oven. I don't know who the encyclopedias say invented those things, but I bet it won't give any mention of a man by the name of Nikola Tesla. In fact, I bet they won't give much mention of Tesla for any of the many things he invented. We can thank Thomas
Edison for this. Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljian,
Croatia at precisely midnight on July 9/10, 1856.
Not a lot is known about his early childhood. His father was an orthodox priest, and his mother, though unschooled, was highly intelligent. Tesla had an extraordinary memory, and he spoke six languages. He Spent four years studying math, physics, and mechanics at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz. Tesla first came to America in 1884, when he was 28. He worked for Thomas Edison.
Edison, at the time, had just patented the lightbulb, and needed a system to distribute the electricity.
One of Tesla's gifts was an understanding of electricity. Edison promised Tesla large amounts of money if he could work out the kinks in
Edison's DC system of electricity. In the end,
Tesla saved Edison over $100,000 (which would be millions today), but Edison refused to live up to his end of the bargain. Tesla quit, and Edison spent the rest of his life trying to stifle Tesla's reputation. Tesla devised a system for electricity,
AC, which was better than Edison's DC system of electricity. AC (Tesla's system) is what is used in our homes today. AC offered many advantages over DC. AC could be transmitted over large distances through thin wires. DC electricity required a large power plant every square mile, and the transmission t...
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... if he had had the money to finance the experiments he always wanted to? ``We are confronted with portentous problems which can not be solved just by providing for our material existence, however abundantly. On the contrary, progress in this direction is fraught with hazards and perils not less menacing than those born from want and suffering.
If we were to release the energy of the atoms or discover some other way of developing cheap and unlimited power at any point of the globe this accomplishment, instead of being a blessing, might bring disaster to mankind... The greatest good will come from the technical improvements tending to unification and harmony, and my wireless transmitter is preeminently such. By its means the human voice and likeness will be reproduced everywhere and factories driven thousands of miles from waterfalls furnishing the power; aerial machines will be propelled around the earth without a stop and the sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land...''
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Tesla’s career as an inventor started when he was in his late twenties. He displayed his incredible understanding of electricity and physics when he created his first invention, the induction motor. The induction motor is a small, electric motor that has become a very useful machine. In fact, most household appliances run using Tesla’s induction motor (Vujovic 1). Score one for Tesla. Soon after he invented the induction motor, Tesla moved to America to try his luck at living the American dream. While in New York City, Tesla got the amazing opportunity to work for his hero, Thomas Edison. However, Tesla soon quit working for Edison due to some disagreements between the two inventors. And so with Edison and his men biting at Tesla’s heels, Nikola set out on his own to make a name for himself (Vujovic 1). Tesla soon became Edison’s greatest competitor. While tinkering in his lab with one of his inventions called the Tesla Coil, Tesla discovered that he could send and receive radio signals when his coils were tuned to the exact same frequency...
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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.
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Several factors influenced his thoughts and ideas. One of the main influences for his predictions was electricity. The introduction of electric power to the home begun in the 1880s (Cross and Szostack 2005, 209). Already in the 1890s, the simplest domestic devices including things like the electric iron in 1893, were powered by electricity, although few consumers could or would avail themselves of them (Cross and Szostack 2005, 209). The stove was being improved from coal and wood to gas stoves (Cross and Szostack 2005, 211). Electric lighting was in the forefront in 1879 where Thomas Edison was still improving his invention of the lightbulb: a glass casing with a filament and a circuitry inside (Cross and Szostack 2005, 158-159). In 1888, Tesla developed the first motor translating AC to mechanical energy (Cross and Szostack 2005, 159) After 1810, and with rapid acceleration from the 1840´s, the technological revolution in industry begin to meld with a new arms race (Cross and Szostack 2005, 189). Rapid acceleration included Robert Stockton improving the steamboats by adding a screw propeller in 1843, the breech loading cannons in 1846, improvements to the musket, and the smokeless gun powder in 1884 (Cross and Szostack 2005, 193, 194,
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Now while Edison did invent the model of the light bulb that everyone uses to this day, there were many already existing light bulbs even before hand. The only problem with these light bulbs prior to Edison’s model was that they were impractical and not really meant for home or office use. It wasn’t until Edison finally invented his model of the light bulb, that we finally had something feasible for ordinary use, and with the invention of the light bulb came the demand of electricity in everyone's home. On September 4th, 1882 the first DC power station was installed on Pearl Street, and so the electric revolution began, but not too far into the future would a battle between Edison and his DC system versus an inventor and former employee of Edison by the name of Nikola Telsa and his AC system take place. Now while in the end AC did end up being the winner due to its proven efficiency over DC electricity, DC is not entirely obsolete. Everyday people use DC electricity to power their electronics, and even homes if powered off grid by a renewable resource for
Through his experiments, Tesla invented the Tesla coil electric transformer, the technology necessary for long-distance electricity transportation, and the induction motor (alliantenergykids.com). As previously stated, Michael Faraday invented the dynamo, but Nikola Tesla built upon this idea through his work with alternating current electricity and invented the induction motor. According to Martin Doppelbauer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Nikola Tesla worked intensively on electric power transmission through a multi-phase alternating current system and presented the principles of a multi-phase induction motor. However, Tesla’s induction motor was not necessarily practical. That changed when he invented a transformer to elevate the oscillating currents to higher potentials, according to Maxwell Weyman. A combination of these two inventions could be used for some of the most effective electrical energy generation known to
Starting in the late 1880s, the rivalry between Tesla and Thomas Edison started to skyrocket after Tesla quit his job with Edison when he didn’t accept the improvements Tesla proposed for his DC system and the War of the Currents began, with Tesla on team alternating current (AC) and Edison on team direct current (DC) (Uth). During this, in 1888, Tesla’s alternating current system caught the eye of George Westinghouse and he was offered $60,000 in cash for his patents and $2.50 per horsepower generated by a Tesla device, eventually leading to the creation of the Westinghouse Electric Company that we know today, providing thousands of jobs (Uth). Edison built his entire business around DC and was committed to promoting its success because, if he didn’t, Edison would lose the contract to power the entire world to alternating current (Sadaghdar). Though most home appliances and electronic devices use direct current and can’t accept alternating current before it is rectified into direct current, it would seem obvious that direct current is the better choice, but, unlike alternating current, direct current has many disadvantages outside your home in power lines (Sadaghdar). AC can be stepped up to thousands of volts from a power plant and then sent through power lines for very long distances, where a transformer can step down the voltage to a usable amount
Edison invented and improved upon things that changed our world. Some of the things he invented, he did by himself. Some he did with other people. Just about all his inventions are still around today and are commonly used. It was important to Edison that he created and invented things that people could use in their everyday life.